Tag: society
MYSTIQUE OF THE HAMPTONS… WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
Either You Get It or You Don’t
Getting out of the city is half the battle. ‘Masters of the Hamptons’ skillfully depart New York after making quick appearances at a posh Red Hot event Friday night, rolling in with...
Culture for Camera…
There’s a scene in the seminal movie ‘La Dolce Vita ‘ (directed by Federico Fellini)where the eponymous hero and obvious dilettante Marcello must decide between his love for the jealous girlfriend and the gorgeous star – played by Swedish...
Why We Pretty People Like Night…
Under the veil of dark, it is easy to appear beautiful. Make up, clothes, location, pose, tone of voice...all these things combined at a late night soiree can make it easy for those not 100% attractive to make a...
Celebrity Re-defined.
Celebrity - the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed, until now...
The recent out pouring of adoration and praise of the late MJ was a true sign that one of our last icons was gone. Yes, it was...
Tabloids Don’t Talk, They Swear. Gen Art’s Fundraiser SINGS.
Wednesday night - a swelling ring of thin, hip, young things smoke, legs bare, tattoos abound, decadent sandals and all. The marble and glass amalgamation of 7 W 34th street has put on its best face tonight, polished and...
Divas for Opera Lives Up to its Name.
The Divas Shop for Opera drew shopoholics and high society alike with its recent UES benefit shopping experience. With a chance at an exclusive first look at beautiful, gently used vintage, it would take a style lover with a...
Pomp and Circumstance at Cipriani’s – The legends come out.
This Tuesday I took in the goings-on at the annual Friars Foundation Awards Ceremony at Ciprianis 42nd Street. The Friars Foundation is the charitable leg of the famous Friars Club, which was founded in 1904.
The three recipients receiving awards...
A Bohemian’s Guide to Surviving the Recession.
The big bad Recession is everywhere you look these days and those who least expected it, are feeling the pinch. While normal middle class families are struggling to make ends meet with everyone in the family needing to...
Pump and Dump: the Society of the Spectacle.
Famed philosopher Guy Debord wrote on the Society of the Spectacle, the point at which meaning falls victim to bullshit. It is, in simpler terms, all pomp without circumstance. In this world, the symbolism of an object, the theatre...
Alix Smith: “The Dislocation of Self.”
According to Alix Smith celebrated photographer/artist the moment of self arrives not with the construct of self but the deconstruction of self. In a society intimately concerned with appearances, the look of things, what often goes on is that...
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...
Wonder at El Museo del Barrio Gala.
Wednesday evening's gala in celebration of El Museo del Barrio, the city's most prominent venue for Latin American art, was somewhat more splendid than I had expected from an event associated with something else with the word "barrio" in...
The Etiquette of Claiming Poverty and Getting Away With It.
Some of us were made for the strobe of celebrity appearances and platter-served cognac that stings our tongues hips upon first sip. There is a certain appeal to being amidst a ubiquity of immaculate representation, complete with intellectual indifference...
Tia Walker- Observations of a Celebrity Blogger.
According to Tia Walker, girl about town there was a time when admitting you were a blogger, and celebrity blogger at that required quick hushed intonations. These days it’s the desired vocation of the glamorous set, assuming you are...
The guaranteed etiquette to misery and social climbing for young girls.
So you’ve arrived in the big city from 'who-knows where,' Idaho and you want to meet the people that will plug you into that coveted social pipeline. Hate to break it to you, bright eyes, but that's much...
