Horacio Silva

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The rain / in Spain / falls mainly / on the plain! Master that and you're good to go for things like horseraces circa 1910. But nowadays it takes a lot more to impress people at fashiony parties. And now that everyone is so covered up for winter, the holiday fashion party is the toughest nut to crack. One's mouth has to sound good, not just look pretty and plump! Luckily, T Magazine’s Web site stays abreast with the trendiest lingo so we don’t have to. We’ve included here T's three words, which are sure to tickle the tip of your tongue for months to come. But trying to get by with only three words would be a nightmare! So you’ll also find an important neologism from your friends at The Daily Transom at the end.  read more »

From Le Pink Papier: 50 Cent, Robert Stern, 'Rent', Paris Hilton, Nabokov, and Bob Woodward

In the world's longest Transom: The Murder Inc. trial; Horacio Silva's 40th Birthday; A Drink with Robert A. M. Stern; Partying with The Architects' Newspaper; and Stephen Colbert and Ashleigh Banfield sell out their sources. TV news, which rose to the challenge of its medium in Vietnam, has utterly failed, 30 years later, in the coverage of Iraq.

In 1996, Rent and Andrew Sullivan both declared the AIDS crisis to be over. But were they both wrong?

Simon Doonan is freaked out by Paris Hilton's monkey.  read more »

Nabokov's son really is going to burn his father's last unfinished book.

How Bob Woodward is a sell-out.