2nd Annual Benefit NY Art Rocks; Manners, Etiquette and Pizzazz!
We’ve been getting accustomed to skinny girls with high cheekbones hanging out with guys with long hair and plush lips, but Thursday’s Art Rocks benefit at the Bowery Hotel held in honor of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at...
Agathe de Bailliencourt; “Je m’en fous.”
"Occupation bleue", Acrylic painting on floor & walls, Tanglin Camp. Singapore Biennale 2006. Artistic Director: Fumio Nanjo
Meeting the very liberated Miss Agathe de Bailliencourt a rising star of the Berlin and Parisian court and not to...
Scallywag and Vagabond Launch Party; The Dorian Gray Syndrome….“Yes we Misbehaved.”
This past Thursday we set into motion the affectations that come with being scallywags and erudite, but ever so delightful misfits, celebrates, ‘glamoronts,’ and whatever else rhymes with vagabonds.
In homage to our love for a certain Mr. Serge Strosberg,...
The Culture of Status and How It Undoes Us.
We’ve been wondering about the media’s preoccupation with status lately (and by default ours too) and what this portends. The trophy life styles, the well appointed celebrity poster boys making their late night tv rounds, the dazzling cars and...
Five, Four, Three, Two, One- Commence your Engines! An Evening of Psych Trance
It’s a scene that you don’t normally hear about, the exultation, the propulsion, the melodic intoxication, and the liberation of sensory perception called Psych Trance.
When you walk into this frenetic beehive terminal you do so knowing full well when...
Jacob’s Angels; Living the Life you Want. A Night out at Buddha Bar and 1 OAK.
Jacob Stovall: Nightclub promoter or model pimp? An evening with an elite NYC club promoter as he brings his model angels out.
When you first look at them all you can think is that you’ve just entered ‘Rembrandt’s’ studio, full...
“Celebrity, Presidency and the Insubordinate Cintra Wilson; A Diatribe on Manners, Executive Privilege and Celebrity Cleavage.”
With the election finally over, and the new 'emperor' ordained, we are poignantly reminded that what has always been at stake is the strata of power. Power to interpret a bill of rights, power to veto, to indoctrinate, to...
Party Tricks, Smashed Birthday Cakes and the Ideological Hangover.
We’ve all been to them, lavish house parties where the guests begin to resemble the liquor bottles that they’ve been imbibing since early evening, where toilet bowls no longer flush, the birthday cake unfortunately falling off the ledge just...
The Culture of Fat Cats, Fast Cars, and the Dreams That Sometimes Go Bust.
We've been watching them lately, those gentlemen in finely wrought suits, whispered dispositions and gaunt expressions careening out of control. Once ubiquitous masters of the universe, chagrined expositors of fast cars, fast women and even...
The Bold, The Beautiful and the Tacky.
We've all probably succumbed at one stage of our lives to the nondescript personal ad. Some of us can say that it led to bon vivant romance, intoxicating sex and heart rendering escapades, but...
Star Crossed. In Search of Divinity at the Turntable. We can be Heroes.
If one has spent any amount of time in Europe, say Ibiza or Mykonos they will tell you that the fancy of youth and the misbegotten is house, that is electric house. As much as it the rage of...
The Making of a Star
A recent Friday night had me gallivanting at 'Fontanas' bar on the lower east side in tribute to our beloved and wondrous friend Brant Kantor, producer at 'NewBuzztv.com’ Wandering the festivities and the good...
The Indelible Rise of the Model, Designer, and Fashionista.
They've become ubiquitous lately, the scrawny girls with giraffe like cheekbones, meta-chic cadence and their pronounced lilts. Seen cozening up in the luminous lounges of 'Bijoux,' 'Soho Grand' and other diamond tiara sprinkled trinkets they've captured the imagination, inspiration,...
Brooklyn Fashion Weekend Oct 3rd-5th, Spring 2008.
Last month's display at BKFW brought together a ballad of grunge, Victorian, preppy auteur, languid hip hop veneer and avande garde sensibilities. There were some notable hits, Nico and Adrien as always excelled with their slinky collisions, Catou, impressed...
Amy Redford; Inspiring civil discourse; “Guitar,” her directorial debut, a sojourn to mortality, self expression and affrirmation.
I recently caught up with Miss Amy Redford pursuant to her showing of her directorial debut “Guitar,” at the Hamptons film festival (the film’s American premiere was held at Sundance- the NY launch at the East Village’s Sunshine cinema...
