Beyond the Jugular: The New Feminists arrive.
In an art world and a wider culture that so often portrays women as models and muses as opposed to the creators of their own art and void comes Lauren Ross’s wonderfully curated video ensemble – ‘Reflections on the...
The Real Reason Why You Watch Gossip Girl.
In case you have not checked out the hyper-sexualized Gossip Girl, (now in its second season) here is some motivation for setting up your DVR if you have not done so already—all for one imperative lesson in the spiraling...
A Gigolo’s Handbook. Part 1.
Based upon every Thursday night at a Turtle Bay bar, the point of the program was for young, affable men to charm the knickers off a Golden Oldie. Hence began my education...
This is a primer. A discussion of the...
Loitering and Smoking. The past time of dilettantes.
Nonchalance and its sister arrogance are the type of acquired characteristics that can never be feigned. Such qualities of being often take a lifetime to develop and any attempt to affect such dispositions without having being appropriately groomed or...
Yaz Hernandez amazes us at Mauboussin.
"Fabulous” people are a dime a dozen in New York, and it’s not every day you see someone with such a compelling st“yle that you have to follow them, if only for a block.
Earlier this week, while walking on...
Photographers who try to steal journalists ex girlfriends at Tribeca’s Pro Photo Carnaval.
"Photographers are damned fine people and make up a hell of a party crew," I wrote in my notepad, having already been drinking for several hours before I arrived at Carnaval Night. The Brazilian-themed event, sponsored by several camera...
The Girlfriend Experience finally hits a Nerve.
Everywhere you look these days you could say that America’s values have taken a turn for the worst—something beyond what is occurring in the current economy. From the American Apparel billboards on the street (displaying a sultry teenager her...
Nancy La Scala, based on a true story.
Nancy la Scala is one of those actresses living the dream that so many actresses dream of but so few actually realize. On the back of her recent starring role in “Vegas; based on a true story,” playing at...
Nolcha-“They’re like a Gossip Girl version of a Lieber bag,”
Rolling in two hours late to the Nolcha retail store, I immediately regretted spending so much time at my previous engagement, the shop was full of attractive, well-accessorized people, and I was quickly adopted by two friendly, flamboyant men. One...
Tia Walker- Observations of a Celebrity Blogger.
According to Tia Walker, girl about town there was a time when admitting you were a blogger, and celebrity blogger at that required quick hushed intonations. These days it’s the desired vocation of the glamorous set, assuming you are...
‘Gawker,’- Trying to Understand why Gutter sells.
If one pays enough attention to what they read and see in the mainstream they will inevitably come to the conclusion that they are consuming a smorgasbord of junk. Stuffed caviar with long legs, useless gossip, over dried tentacles,...
Fixx samples the crowd and the clothes at Eco Vert Fashion Show
Pushing through the barrel-chested, protein shake consuming, nine to five, wall street finance puppies to get to an open bar is never fun. Delta Iota Kappa heads covered in gel, pomade, and perfume could be heard using bro-speak with...
Class with the Countess, lessons in Etiquette.
Manners, etiquette, where do they come from, can they really be learned or is one just born into it? With that in mind we dropped by Thursday night to partake in the festivities (with tact and acumen to be...
Tribeca Film Festival After Party: Did Producer Marty Bregman invite the mob?
It’s about this time of year if one has the option to make a quick dash to Paris or stick around for the milieu of social engagement one is bound to be invited to I would strongly suggest one...
‘Lord and Taylor,’ gives you Dj Cat and ‘Why he hasn’t called.’.’
The first and second floors of the Lord and Taylor store were buzzing Thursday night, each floor for a very different reason. I walked in the doors and was instantly surrounded by a sea of middle-aged Midwestern ladies, Eastern...
