Hanging out with Hipsters. What they do, Where they hang out and Why being one isn’t always Ironic.
If there’s one thing hipsters do believe in it’s the idea that you shouldn’t believe in anything unless it finally becomes perverse and counter intuitive to believe in. So if smoking is bad for you at some stage it...
Oops I did it again! Scallywag turns up to Papercut: “Flying by the Seat of our Pants.”
We’re not even a block away from Heist gallery and we can already see the Louis Vuitton handbags flapping in the wind and the idle cigarettes careening all the way down from 27 Essex Street. Approaching the box size...
You’re so Vain, You Probably think this Article is About You.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond have been amazed and literally aghast at the advent of unrelenting vanity in the corridors of society. Every where you go you see pictures of tight peachy asses, (Pamela Anderson thank you so...
Time is but just a Wonderful Memory… a Night out on the Town. Ennagon Gallery, Ago and Bungalow 8.
Inspired by the wonderful Matilde Soligno whose work we went to see this Wednesday night at Ennagon gallery, Soho, we here at Scallywag and Vagabond decided to find out what time and memory really meant as we surveyed Miss...
Trophy Wives. Why They Exist and How You Can Become One Too.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond do love to terrorize. So we sat down with the impossibly lovely“How to Get a Rich Man” author (former Playboy model) Donna Spangler to see what this so-called trophy business is all about. Biological...
Life is a Bitch…But Then Again so is Bunny. Art Basel Miami 2008 Finale.
It all begins with Bunny, but then again it always does. Bunny is glamorous, she makes heads swerve, stops traffic, is beyond photogenic and of course she has attitude to boot. Like everything and everyone else here at...
And the Boys were Gun-Ho…Beauty, Celestial Gems, and Che Guevera at the Raleigh Hotel. Art Basel Miami 2008 continues.
Making our way back to South Beach for another vestige of pretty people had us stopping in at the Raleigh Hotel last night in honor of art/fashion magazine Visionaire’s party. Getting in required lots of talent, wit, and if...
Art Basel Miami; Who took my Alberte Ferretti Dress?
With the fabulous and the glamorous in tow I stepped foot into the courtyards of Miami Art Center to address the very question, “How does one celebrate an eponymous magazine called Interview without conducting their very own interview?”
What follows...
The Very Hectic Life of a Celebrity Doorman; Trying to get Past Delano Hotel’s Danny at the Florida Room....
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a celebrity, a poseur, a perfectly chiseled human being squirm all one needed to do was turn up to Wednesday’s very ultra private party at the Florida Room for Madame Grace Jones at...
The Etiquette of Dining Out. Arthur Schwartz Confesses His Sins and Preferences.
Like all great budding artists, we here at Scallywag and Vagabond like to know everything about the zeitgeist: it makes the rules more fun to break. So who better to explain the institution of dining than Arthur Schwartz, the...
This Holiday Season you’ll be Smashed.
Once again it’s this time of year that we are compelled to distinguish ourselves as troopers to our families, friends, co workers, employers, accounts, prospects, girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, readers and what not if they ask us to join them...
Accoutrements & Alcohol and the Habits That Lead you to Them.
With financial institutions in sudden peril and the framework of free market capitalism in jeopardy, I resolved to watch the end of the first worlds’ misery alongside $30 cocktails and two patricians at the Gramercy Hotel’s Rose Bar. The...
The Scallywag and Vagabond Weddings Style Register. A Diatribe on How you too Can Announce your Wedding Even if...
We here at SCV have always enjoyed seeing who makes it in to the New York Times wedding registry. With tea and crumpets in hand we sit here every Sunday amusing ourselves, placating ourselves, wondering amongst ourselves. As...
The Politics of Being Politically Correct.
If we can't say what we think, how can we be who we are?
In a mass-produced media blitz of long, rich and blonde, it's hard not to wonder: is our sparkly pink bubblegum culture slowly gagging us to our...
The Demise of Joie de Vivre…
We here at SCV have been reading with great concern about what has come to happen to a certain habit that for a generation of ‘bohemians, intellectuals, sleepy sods’ and other irascible souls of the leisured class have come...
