Richard Avedon

It’s Saturday night, and Izzy Gold is in what looks like his natural environment.

In the back of the long, tubular space on Broome Street called GoldBar, behind parted curtains of gold chain, he stands at his turntables. He’s wearing clunky headphones around his neck, one akimbo DJ-style, and a T-shirt of his own design, black with a gold skull in the center, a pack of Marlboro Reds rolled into the left sleeve.

The gold skull is picked up in the wallpaper pattern; not far away, a row of “thrones,” tall chairs upholstered in gold fabric, are lined along the bar.  read more »

A new Eliot Spitzer ad hits television tonight. This one "Simple, Fair, Important" is about cutting property taxes, an issue that both John Faso and Tom Suozzi have attacked him on.

"We can't bring New York back if people can't afford to live here," says Spitzer, with a slight sentimental crack in his voice.

The ad has more of those Richard Avedon close ups too and can be seen here. It's the last on the list.

-- Jason Horowitz

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