It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
Roger Prigent sat in the front room of his Upper East Side store, Malmaison, gently stroking the arms of his gilded chair. After the touch came the recognition.
"That's Russian," he said, his white mustache dancing under his nose. "I like Russian chairs; they're more whimsical than French ones. This one's from 1825." Pivoting to his Read MoreBob Kerrey, the two-term former Senator and governor of Nebraska, is considering a proposal to start an elite training ground for policy-makers at the New School University, where he became president in January 2001.
Mr. Kerrey-who said upon taking the New School post that he wanted to teach a government class himself-commissioned an investigation into the Read MoreA little more than a year ago, the 30-year-old New York artist Jeremy Blake-whose digital, slow-moving painterly animations were seen in the Whitney Museum exhibition BitStreams and the San Francisco MoMA's 010101 show-found a message on his answering machine that he called "the equivalent of being discovered in Schwab's."
The message was from the filmmaker Paul Read MoreIt was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
France's Conservatoire-the country's state-funded, highly competitive theater school-is known for preparing students for classical performance, not for turns as shady cognac salesmen trying to con the New Jersey mob. But next month, the French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade-one of the Conservatoire's most famous alums, who starred in Queen Margot and Nelly and Mr. Arnaud-will make an Read More
Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village art gallery and smiled an infectious smile. Uptown in Chelsea, and on the East Side, things were looking grim. From Mr. Schachter's perspective, the mood reminded him of the early 90's, when scores of galleries went bankrupt and hundreds of Read More
"When you're named at the head of a business, small or large, you know you're expendable ad nutum -meaning you could go at any moment by simple decision of the board of directors. You're paid for that. And well paid. This special compensation, these golden parachutes that make headlines, to me, are unjustifiable for executives. Read More
On a recent outing to the Belgian café Le Pain Quotidien, Christiane Celle, owner of the Nolita boutique Calypso, wife of fashion photographer Antoine Verglas and a Tribeca mom, struck up a conversation with another woman who was there with her baby. Without any prompting, the woman told Ms. Celle, who is French, that her Read More
When James Fallon, then the London bureau chief of Fairchild publications, interviewed John Fairchild, the legendary editor and publisher of Women's Wear Daily , for the paper's 90th anniversary issue, the man who spent the late 50's boozing with Chanel, and the 60's reinventing the American look and spatting with most designers, told him the Read More
Three things to take away from Vivendi Universal's March 5 press conference: The company posted a humongous $11.8 billion net loss for 2001; earnings were in line with the media giant's projections, and the people of France still consider Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Messier a cultural traitor.
The American media may have missed it, but Read MoreIt was the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 13 when retired NYPD
lieutenant Tom Tierney got the call. "I got a missing dog," said a voice on the other end of the line. It was Rich Hogan, Mr. Tierney's sometime employer from IPSA International, a firm that does high-end corporate investigations and security. A five-year-old black Labrador, Read MoreOn a gray afternoon on Feb. 4, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old
Peruvian tenor who's just debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Almaviva in Gioacchino Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia , arrived at Il Violino running and panting, 15 minutes late. He pushed the restaurant's doors with both hands and a shake of the head and apologized Read More
