Wild Turkey!” My friend Nate-Dog shouts, brandishing a bottle of whiskey and flapping imaginary wings with glee. It was Nov. 18, and we’d taken the Friday-night train to New Haven—a booze-soaked isthmus carrying us from Manhattan to Yale, where our alma mater would battle Harvard in the next day’s football game. Nate-Dog, William, Cooper and Read More
Wild Turkey!” My friend Nate-Dog shouts, brandishing a bottle of whiskey and flapping imaginary wings with glee.
It was Nov. 18, and we’d taken the Friday-night train to New Haven—a booze-soaked isthmus carrying us from Manhattan to Yale, where our alma mater would battle Harvard in the next day’s football game. Nate-Dog, William, Cooper and Read More"I was born with a charisma!" Cyprus-born singer Anna Vissi declared. "I don't sing for money or for fame. I became famous and I became rich, but …. " She shrugged, rattling the sequins on her vintage 1920's halter from a Portobello flea market. A sparkly Patricia Field belt held up her black satin Gucci Read More
On Sept. 22, husband-and-wife gossip duo George Rush and Joanna Molloy hit gold when they confirmed a long-standing rumor that Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon was having a relationship with another woman.
All that was left was to call Ms. Nixon's publicist, Carrie Ross, to get a reaction. But Ms. Ross was doing her Read MoreOn the night of Sunday, Dec. 5, after stuffing our post-Thanksgiving figure into a gown, The Transom wandered over to the Waldorf-Astoria for the American Museum of the Moving Image tribute to John Travolta. Upon arrival, we found that Mr. Travolta was feeling our pain. Looking robust in a black Armani tux and tie, he Read More
"I'm not very good at talking to people that I don't know, which sounds weird. I'm not really into that whole artificial-conversation thing," said Damien Fahey, 24. It was Wednesday, Nov. 17, and Mr. Fahey's 6-foot-2 frame was folded into a booth at John's Pizzeria in Hell's Kitchen, not far from his 18-by-12-foot studio apartment. Read More
At a little past 9 p.m. on Nov. 20, Dave Chappelle arrived unannounced at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village. The audience, packed into the small red-brick room and just starting in on their two-drink minimum, was delighted.
Mr. Chappelle lit a cigarette. "Fuck the law-I'm a rebel!" he proclaimed after taking the stage. "I didn't Read More"It's really weird, because I do have a lot of friends who are famous, but I always knew them way before," said Jonathan Cheban on a recent evening at Nobu. "I mean, back in the day when Ozzy would play Madison Square Garden, I was sneaking Kelly and Jack into Suite 16. And I've been Read More
Either Michael Lohan has no luck, or he has no sense of integrity. Or maybe he's just doubly cursed. The ill-fated father of teen starlet Lindsay Lohan has accumulated a raft of headlines for separate incidents in which he was accused of beating up his brother-in-law, a sanitation worker and fellow patrons at a strip Read More
The cutthroat competition between New York’s celebrity chefs sometimes spills out of the kitchen. On Saturday, Oct. 23, the F-bombs were flying as the boisterous duo of Mario Batali (Babbo, Esca, Lupa, Otto) and fellow chef and writer Anthony Bourdain (Les Halles, Kitchen Confidential, A Cook’s Tour) took to the stage in the Condé Nast Read More
When world-renowned makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin died in May 2002 of a pituitary tumor, many assumed it was curtains for his eponymous new cosmetics line. But Kevyn Aucoin Beauty has been flourishing nicely, thanks to the deft ministrations of one Craig Jessup, 22, a theater major at Marymount Manhattan College with a cherubic face and Read More
"They’re hearing about it from their mothers, so it trickles down," said Dr. Howard Sobel, an Upper East Side dermatologist who recently Botoxed a 17-year-old girl. Her 14-year-old sister expressed interest in the procedure as well. "We’ll have girls walk in with a picture of her mother and say, ‘I don’t ever want to have Read More
The lure of a Democratic Presidential nominee and his wife wasn’t enough to draw some celebrities to Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, Sept. 20. Sprite-like actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was being honored at Redbook magazine’s annual "Mothers and Shakers" luncheon for her work with Project Angel Food, but canceled at the last minute Read More
Out on the edges of the solar system, far from the orbiting paths of Jupiter and Neptune, in the icy cold of deep space, Jennifer Lopez had just been sucked into a black hole. The actress-singer-entrepreneur was sitting in a roped-off area in the corner of the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Read More
A deathly silence reigned in most of the city's high-end stores this week-except for the occasional retail Republican.
Brooks Brothers, that preppy bastion, was offering a weeklong 20 percent discount for Republicans who showed their delegate cards. On Sunday, however, the Fifth Avenue store was obscured behind scores of policemen, who stood out front scribbling on Read More
