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...
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...
