Tag: Social Commentary
A Modern New York City Girl’s Dilemma
The “New York-ette”, we (who live in the city or surrounding 50 mile radius) have all been exposed to her. But what makes this Sex And The City over glamorized creature tick? The answer: Social Conditioning. I actually...
The Death of Murray Hill.
Once the refuge for the terminally uncurious and those who wished to create a suburb within a city, Murray Hill was the best 10 city block and 3 avenue long bar, gym and sushi restaurant east of the Upper...
Figaro’s Imaginary Interview with Anna Wintour.
'Some things one shouldn’t be allowed to imagine, that said we let our cloaked writer Figaro have his way. Proceed with caution all you die hards.' – Scallywag, Editor in Chief.
If one could accord the idea that fashion is...
Philadelphia: Not the Smartest town on the Map.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
“Philadelphia will be the first major U.S. city to not have it’s own newspaper…”
To be honest, I did not read more than the first couple paragraphs of this New York Times...
Everyone wants to be a ‘Rock Star.’
Whether you were once the type of child who grooved and sang atop their family fireplace for anyone who might watch or the type who privately held a water bottle to their lips as a microphone in performance for...
My dalliance with a Sugar Daddy…
Of the most lethal things one can wrap their mind around, it is -sex and money. At once desirable and at the same time deplorable, stimulating and yet also mind numbing, erotic and limp, a visceral turn on, and...
Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste rather than mere lineage
Elegant, fashion-forward, and constantly in the know about the latest designer, Kimball Hastings is averse to the term ‘dandy’. At 28, Hastings is the wunderkind editor of Teen Vogue ; homosexual and effortlessly chic, Hastings is nonetheless utterly against...
Media Obsessed Starvation, and other myths.
Anorexia: Media Obsessed Starvation amongst celebrity and idealized images of contemporary women to the detriment of health.
We have models to turn to for beauty.
There they walk, long legged, ravishing, adored. Here we sit, gawking, envious, infatuated.
For years, media trends...
Rejection Letter From Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film Academy.
The facts are as follows: Recently one of our most esteemed writers and admittedly untoward writers- Cyrano de Bulgerac applied for admittance to “Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film School.”
What follows is evidenced in 2 parts. Part 1 – above:...
Should you get arrested this summer? The quality of life dilemmas of fame seekers.
When turning to crime sometimes pays.
We’ve been giving serious thought on the issue of crime and how you like the celebrities that we all collectively idolize can use it to maximize one’s career and standing. Of course before you...
Marginalization. You, me, them, and the ‘beautiful’ outcast.
In essence marginalization is like standing at the gas pump alongside with everyone else but because you have been deemed in perpetuity to be an outcast or simply irrelevant or too difficult to ingratiate (ie transgender, non conformist or...
The top ten most unimportant people this week in the Hamptons.
The social pecking order that you thrive off…
As we find ourselves fully immersed in the summer sweepstakes called ‘Hey look at me I’m in the Hamptons and I’m more important or nearly important game’ that goes on we decided...
A TALE OF TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN: LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK CITY .
We’ve heard whispers of their legacies all our lives: The two, most powerful metropolitan centers in America, perched magnificently on each coast. The cities who have bred businesses, artist’s communities, fashion trends, culinary revolutions, nightclubs, luxury cinemas, corner cafes,...
Slaughter in Williamsburg.
Saturday Night in Williamsburg- the hipster's are starting to look more like Taliban with their 12 inch beards and track bikes (bikes without brakes.) There is no stopping the influx of these pirates blindly plowing down Bedford, just hoping...
Celebrity Death Sweeps you can bet on…
I received a whole lot of dislike from sensitive snobs for pointing out that Dash Snow’s death should not have been considered any more or less meaningful than when the average Joe shuffles off his own mortal coil. My...
