Dressed to the hilt.
Monday night and Manhattan society has retired to the annals of Scottish meadows, bag pipes and a plethora of single malts. Whether by design or madness it seems everyone who has ever been a film star, is a film...
Ritual Slaughter: How Matt Timms has Bobby Flay’d the Hipster Movement.
The trouble with insulting hipsters is that they will most often take it as a compliment. Their powers of alchemy do not stop at gentrification. These irony-clasts turn even the most ingenious criticism into a punch line for their...
Sunday Night Crises with Hipsters.
The Glasslands Gallery has all the expected hallmarks of a Williamsburg absurdist theatre: bikes, stuffed animal heads, vintage appliances, undulating, gender-less masses and assorted ironic accoutrement. My drink tickets were ripped up Uno cards, reminiscent of a by-gone era...
Omar Vega: No Love Lost.
When you first meet Omar Vega the first thing he is apt to do is count the number of steps separating you between him and you, the types of shoes you are wearing, whether you slouch, slink like a...
Aliens with Cheek Bones: Talking Shop with Model-Manager JJ Cortez
What is beauty? Why is it commercialized? What makes it so important and is it really in the beholder’s eyes? We sat down with world-famous model manager JJ Cortez, who discovered Nikki Taylor and all sorts of other famous...
Sun K. Kwak- Undulating and Winding deep into your Soul.
When you first walk into the Brooklyn Museums vast 5th room floor (the B.Gerald Cantor Gallery) your first impulse is to run your hands through your hair, turn your knees and walk which ever way your heart will allow....
A Night out at the Museum of Natural History: When the Socialites Come Alive.
It was a dark and stormy Thursday evening. Scampering in my black patent stilettos, I dashed from my cab and took shelter in the Museum of Natural History. And what happened afterhours in this dimly lit establishment was, in...
Global Nomads Dance for Freedom.
This past Thursday saw a wonderful turnout celebrating awareness for a very special cause very dear to our hearts. Inspired by the collective vision of Janera Soerel of Janera.com, photographer Jennifer Macfarlane and the compassionate humanist Benjamin Skinner we...
The Luxury Spot. $1600 Bottle service will always exist…
The ongoing recession isn't so much of an ongoing recession that such things as luxury-oriented online magazine launch parties aren't ongoing as well. Manhattan will simply not sit still for global economic collapse, even if the collapse in question...
The English Invasion arrives at Tribeca Grand.
The English have always been known for their tea, stiff upper lip, dry wit and all things pertaining to high fashion. Wednesday night saw us pay homage to the revelry over at the Tribeca Grand as Jason Caine of...
Gen Art Film Premier Launch Party- ‘Why I’ll always be the Reluctant Paparazzo.’
From three quarters up the block you could hear the cacophony of light bulbs, cigarette butts and designer smiles merging into an orgasmic beat. Approaching the phalanx of door personnel revealed well attired burgeoning film stars, video monitors monitoring...
Coming of Age with The New Twenty at Norwood.
255, 247…241, in gold leaf…that’s it…
Upon invitation by nightlife royalty Patrick Duffy to The New Twenty film premier party, we embraced a perfect Monday evening scene for the provocative Scallywags.
Crossing the thresholds of Norwood is like a tantalizing bite...
Why the Yuppie is finally on the way out.
There is an idea in American culture that one can be who they want to be, or rather who they should aspire to be. Such desires are often informed by the things one sees in department stores, fashion magazines...
“I’ve got a crush over you!”
Beautiful boy. This is who he is, and those gents standing in front of me are just as beautiful. Then again we’re only at ‘CRUSH’ fanzine’s launch party, and the whole room is infatuated, making their way over, their...
The Economics of Fame: Has the Celebrity Bubble Burst?
To fabricate celebrity costs money. To exploit it costs even more. The more money in the industry the more it seems are the numbers of celebrity. So what happens to the conveyor belt of mass talent in a bad...
