‘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...
Operation Smile Gala- not just a Dadaist performance act.
Though it took me a while to figure this out, I have finally come to understand that the event-related press releases which get sent to reporters in this town are not really intended to have any relationship to actual...
LifeBall prelude kicks off with the tre gender set.
This Tuesday night saw us whisk into the very enchanted lives of a very colorful and eccentric set over at the Red Bull space on Thompson street in a prelude to the main annual benefit gala in Vienna, Austria....
The unraveled etiquette of publicists in New York City…
If one spends enough time in New York City one will come to find that one’s eventual ascension in society requires the discreet efforts of a clandestine publicist. It of course has come to the point where now publicists...
How To Tell If They Are All That, Plus More: A Guide To Assembling The Clues.
I had a dream recently in which I was in a relationship.
It was one of those dreams that I have infrequently but that I enjoy claiming my subconscious has trademarked: The First Crush Dream. The First Crush Dream invariably...
Nero- A hacienda for the cheek boned inclined.
The first question you have to ask yourself when you walk into Nero’s restaurant is – have I come to a Next Model management’s afternoon sojourn in the middle of some Ibiza retreat, with azure waters, cobalt eyes and...
Culture Stars at Bomb.
Turning up to the eponymous Bomb Magazine’s gala fete in lieu of their twenty eight years of survival at the National Arts Club was like turning up to who’s who of culture in America. If one could have soaked...
Valerie Geffner shocks Fixx.
It’s Thursday night, I’m underneath The Mercer awaiting a performance by Valerie Geffner and there is hardly any room to move. Unfortunately, there still was room to breath because some fool made the mistake eating some sort of...
Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian. Beyond the box…
Due to some abnormal external forces, the gallery-goers at the Gagosian opening last Thursday knew to automatically lock themselves into a queue. This magnetic stream leaked out from the inner depth of the great gallery to swallow innocent bystanders...
Clic Gallery, and how they all flocked.
Here’s the question on my mind. Does art sell better when it’s surrounded by lots of beautiful people, correct cheek bones, foreign accents and an endless supply of hors’ deaves and jalapeno tequila cocktails. The answer it seems is...
Terra Nova- Prompting new theater and a connection to your soul.
Driving along the I-94 back into the city one night James Carter the Associate Artistic Director of the chic and progressive theater company TerraNova was alarmed by what he saw on the billboards there in front of him. The...
Floozy Girls and Dopey Goombas or something like that…
“I think the title of your article should be ‘Floozy Girls and Dopey Goombas’,” said Mark, our photographer, as we shoved our way through a sea of orange spray tans and expensive push-up bras. We managed to slip in...
The curious affairs of women who marry for money.
Gold-diggers (women who marry for money and status): they’re much savvier and smarter than they lead on. How hypergamy, the seeking of money and higher status informs women.
There’s something to be said of gold-diggers (is that what we’re calling...
Bagtrends Green Army Party.
I don’t know what you think about when you think “green fashion,” but when I agreed to go to the Bagtrends.com Green Arm Candy Party, I was expecting a lot of almost trendy, almost well-dressed vendors ready with spiels...
The guaranteed etiquette to misery and social climbing for young girls.
So you’ve arrived in the big city from 'who-knows where,' Idaho and you want to meet the people that will plug you into that coveted social pipeline. Hate to break it to you, bright eyes, but that's much...
