Last Sunday evening, four straight women—Jessica Joy and her friends Anna, Nathalie and Marge—got together at Ms. Joy’s Lower East Side apartment to watch her favorite show. Apple martinis, bruschetta and cigarettes at arm’s reach, the four women slumped into a comfy red futon to watch, with the concentration usually reserved for an art-house flick Read More
“Your class is a cult classic …. Your class is all about never ever saying I like the tomato …. It’s properly intellectual … nobody’s pretending the tomato will save your life. Or make you happy. Or teach you how to live or ennoble you or be a great example of the human spirit Read More
“Your class is a cult classic …. Your class is all about never ever saying I like the tomato …. It’s properly intellectual … nobody’s pretending the tomato will save your life. Or make you happy. Or teach you how to live or ennoble you or be a great example of the human spirit …. Read More
Just over a month ago, a young man found himself in an uncomfortable sleeping arrangement. After a night out with a group of friends-dinner on the Lower East Side, drinks at Soho House-he found himself alone in the home of a senior editor at a well-known fashion magazine. This didn't seem like a bad thing: Read More
Prestige revivals mark this spring's theater season, with several potentially bankable classics opening on Broadway in the next month. Among the most anticipated are Tennessee Williams' Southern dramas The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Both productions, with star-studded and surprising casts, will attempt to reinvigorate these period plays.
The Glass Menagerie, which premiered at Read MoreLast Sunday evening, four straight women-Jessica Joy and her friends Anna, Nathalie and Marge-got together at Ms. Joy's Lower East Side apartment to watch her favorite show. Apple martinis, bruschetta and cigarettes at arm's reach, the four women slumped into a comfy red futon to watch, with the concentration usually reserved for an art-house flick Read More
Last Sunday evening, four straight women-Jessica Joy and her friends Anna, Nathalie and Marge-got together at Ms. Joy's Lower East Side apartment to watch her favorite show. Apple martinis, bruschetta and cigarettes at arm's reach, the four women slumped into a comfy red futon to watch, with the concentration usually reserved for an art-house flick Read More
"I think there's something about this place being a final step before suburbia," said Jeff Roda from his musty armchair at the Fall Café, the aptly named coffee shop that was arguably the first hipster establishment on Brooklyn's Smith Street.
"There's still a lot of urbanites here-a lot of writers, professionals," he continued. "But as real-life Read MoreNew Old-World art dealer; gallery royalty; young fogey
"Leo is 26 going on 40," said collector Norman Dubrow, 76, gesturing toward Leo Koenig, a tall, fresh-faced man dressed in a fogeyish brown corduroy suit. One of Mr. Koenig's artists, Eric Parker, agreed. "He's a gentleman's art dealer," he said. "He's not trying to be hip." Read MoreNightlife promoter, club owner, A.D.D. empire builder, beau to Carmen Kass
Richie Akiva likes to refer to himself as a "young hustler." And like most young hustlers, he's a man of extreme confidence, loud pronouncements and diminutive height. "I'm accomplishing every single dream that I have," said the 5-foot-5 Mr. Akiva-"Little Richie" to his friends. But Read More
