Hysteria in Quasi Celebrity Land. What happens when a fashion designer wants to sue Sally Shan and Scallywag? Let’s...
Media? What exactly is the role of media and when is it fair to argue that media crosses the line? After all there are many instances of media unduly trespassing upon people’s lives, slandering them, and holding them captive...
Atarah Valentine.Caught between darkness and lightness.
Coming to watch Atarah Valentine sing is like coming to watch theater. A Chekhov production with pathos, unrequited love, whirling vignettes, the wailing of a cello, synthesized drum beats and the angelic voice that crushes you after he takes...
An Evening Gala at the Players Club on the Gramercy.
Saturday evening a vibrant nebulous of energy was hosted by the Acting Studio at the Players Club on Gramercy. The Gala was a decadent affair celebrating the Studio’s 25th year reunion and raising funds for the revival of the...
Yoshitomo Nara wants to Confuse you.
The innocuous little moppets so delicately existent on Yoshimoto Nara’s canvases reversed the role of ‘gazer’ and ‘gazee’ at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea last Friday. Coming straight from Japan, totally unaware of the language and culture of...
America’s Next Top Model (Troll).
Somewhere, someplace far, far away, in an enchanted castle made of blood diamonds and chinchilla, Tyra Banks is sipping on a Häagen-Dazs mojito while wrapped in a meat bikini and counting her millions. Meanwhile, down below, beyond the village,...
Why we love Super Heroes and why we wish we were one ourselves.
Next time you walk down 5th avenue or anywhere along Broadway, stop for a moment, put your hands by your side and look way up to the sky. What you’ll see wont really be the sky scrapers and the...
Going for BROKE. Tea with Daisy Martey at Payard.
This Saturday we caught up with one of London’s real super stars, Daisy Martley. The girl who used to front for Noonday Underground and Morcheeba who was literally here for a whirlwind blast and ‘going for broke,’ albeit first...
Fixx and Sean give you the House.
Chiromancy is the age-old art of characterization and fortunetelling through the study of the palm. Also known as palmistry, palm-reading, or hand analysis, in today’s modern society it is generally regarded as a pseudoscience despite it’s uncanny accuracy in...
United Creators want to make your Art Gallery Irrelevant?
Here’s an idea. You’re a starving artist trying to get your work out, except there’s one problem, the art galleries aren’t returning your phone calls. It’s that time of day you begin to reconsider your sanity except this time...
Respect me in the morning or I won’t be back for my next bottle of Jack!
Mom always said "it's important to show manners and even more important to be polite!".... But the Kid's nagging insisitence "why," is our bubbling curiosity that pops the cork!?
At this trying time of doom that important issue has fermented...
Conversations with Paul Hutcheson.
We sent out Kat Hepburn this past weekend to the Frigid Theater festival. What follows is a diatribe on drunken sex, why we secretly love tranny porn, the concept of beauty, monogamy, identity, and the choices we make and...
Charity: Water. And a Date?
The Scallywag crew entered the narrow hallway of Chelsea Market shortly after 10pm Tuesday night. Little did we know we were like small metal balls about to enter a toy tilted wooden-maze. A series of photographs on display near...
What happened to Hamish? HARD/SOFT opens at the National Arts Club.
Getting into the National Arts Club last Friday was an outrageous production. The line was around the block. Frustrated shouts could be heard throughout Gramercy Park. And Hamish Bowles left in a huff. Yes, that’s right. Hamish Bowles, VOGUE’s...
American Academy of Arts and Letters: Pompous, Stuffy but Brilliant.
In the post regalia of the Armory this Scallywag headed way uptown (155 th st ) to partake in some stodgy revelry of the Academy’s annual patronage to the visual arts.
Viewing the vast amount of heralded work at the...
Will Everything Be Taken Away? UN-SCR-1325 opens at the Chelsea Art Museum.
In the midst of Armory Week’s champagne cocktails and pretentious (albeit enthralling) parties, it was refreshing to attend a powerful opening where the focus was, shockingly enough, the art. Curated by the perceptive Jan Van Woensel and his curatorial...
