Tag: New York
Open City Literary Award Benefit; The Zeitgeist’s tongue.
It can be intimidating at first: the highbrow, polysyllabic witticisms; the silent, lidded, critical assessments; the nonchalant stances (always the nonchalant stances…) as the dimensions of one’s success is overviewed—the Open City Literary Awards, tucked into a little pocket...
Amanda Lepore turns up for DEPESHA, kind of…
Chic and sleek characterized the upper-level, upscale Depesha mag designer charity auction at the Helen Yarmak Showroom on May 21st. From the beautiful faces to the immaculate attire, everything was aimed to please, but none more so than the...
High Cheekbones only at the National Arts Council.
Whether by design or scheming dogma the wonderful Andrea Tese brought a certain panache to Monday night’s young innovative awards (which she coincidentally won) at the National Arts Council. Standing in front of her daring pictures and equally daring...
The Pink Agenda, a will to triumph.
There are some things a woman wants to never hear, “I don’t love you,” “I don’t have any money,” and “Not good news,” in response to a routine biopsy check in relation to as mammography done pursuant to a...
Looking for Plato at Collective Hardware.
Plato’s theory of forms holds that there exists a perfect other in a removed world of which ours is a sad, poor copy. I believe this to be an acceptable segue.
The Black Honky art show of works by former...
The Golf Edict.
It was a fair-weathered humid Thursday evening on May 14th when 19th Hole Magazine hosted “Tee-Off In New York City” at New York Golf Center just off of Herald Square, a loud accumulation of top-of-the-line golf apparel, thumpy hip-hop,...
Tia Walker- a Girl’s night out for Save the Eggs Foundation.
If one is in the habit of coming to benefits and the sorts of fetes that champion philanthropic causes they will undeniably find themselves beguiled, charmed and a smidgen curious as to how such things ever come together. One...
Learning to Bollywood Funk Dance, while sipping champagne.
Approaching the Bpeace Dance Giving 09 event I had no real idea whether to wear heels or break dancing sneakers, as the concept of Dance-giving made me wonder if we would be counting the numbered hours for participants shaking...
The posh set come to the Rainbow Room.
This past Tuesday, May 12, I attended the National Meningitis Association Gala in the Rainbow Room of the illustrious 30 Rockefeller Center, and I was impressed. Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t to say that the pearls weren’t...
Mickey Rourke Is Where All The Models Are.
The cancan girls smile at everyone. Pin thin legs jut out from folds of full skirts and snake beneath the knee high stockings of lace which twist seductively into bejeweled heels kissing the floor. Their manicured faces levitate above...
Glamour Boy Andrew Levitas gives you Mean Painting.
Glamour Boys are generally to be found in front of the screen or smoking European cigarettes at low key locales that you can never get in. Of course this weekend this glam lad went for the jugular when he...
Melanie Bonajo Book Launch; a loss for words.
Photography by Paul WR Perez.
A large, yellow school bus lumbers past the fire escapes of Brooklyn tenement buildings.
Hebrew letters sprawl across its side, seemingly strange in the urban corner of Williamsburg where, two blocks ago, Bedford Avenue buzzed with...
Affordable Art that’s crazy, if only we could afford that too.
There is no universally acceptable definition of "affordable," and thus I'm fine with the Affordable Art Fair's self-description as such; Manhattan being what it is, there are plenty of collectors who can afford to throw down five grand for...
Glamour arrives at the Artseen NY Benefit. If only you were there too…
Arriving last night to the NY Foundation for the Arts, 'Artseen' Benefit was like coming to a wonderful performance art piece, all the characters were in place, the gestures, cheek bones and the art that hung along the walls...
James Beard Foundation Gala…and the tears were flying.
It is customary after a good meal to sit in silence and savor what God and good fortune has bestowed upon you. You will of course in a moment’s notice as you search for your evening taxi forget about...
