Our luxury correspondent Trevor Butterworth continues his demented trip down the international lane of luxury. The other day, he rode-along with the Cartier crew for the launch of their Love charity bracelet. The new Cartier Love bracelets. There was dash, there was swoon, there was confusion and there was envy. But how could there not Read More
Doğan Perese and Sarah Mascareñas Met: Sept. 6, 2005 Engaged: March 10, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 22, 2006 When Sarah Mascareñas, a blond, blue-eyed bombshell Yalie (yes, they do exist), first walked into the law offices of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, where she was starting as an associate attorney, she was prepared for a Read More
Next week, Christie's is auctioning off 250 personal items from Bobby Short's Upper East Side home. The famed singer and pianist, who performed at the Cafe Carlyle for more than 35 years, died last March. Lot highlights from the auction include the talent's black lacquer Bechstein grand piano, his Cartier wristwatch and a wooden bird Read More
La Perla lingerie may make women feel sexy and drive their men mad—how else to explain spending $100 on a pair of panties? Nonetheless, the folks at the pricey underwear boutique, located at 803 Madison Avenue, could probably have done without the male aficionado who showed up shortly after 7 p.m. on June 23. Read More
La Perla lingerie may make women feel sexy and drive their men mad-how else to explain spending $100 on a pair of panties? Nonetheless, the folks at the pricey underwear boutique, located at 803 Madison Avenue, could probably have done without the male aficionado who showed up shortly after 7 p.m. on June 23.
The suspect Read MoreChecks and Balances:
Bank Manager Nets Crook The cops have put the blame for a recent rash of bank robberies not just on the crooks themselves, but also on the banks they plundered for their lackadaisical attitude toward security. Perhaps taking that criticism to heart, the bank manager at the Commerce Bank's Second Avenue and 90th Read MoreWednesday 19th
Caps and frowns: Yesterday, playwright Tony Kushner delivered the keynote address to Columbia's Class of 2004 , while its underachieving, sexually confused sister Barnard had to settle for author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich . Today, they all throw their hats in the air and find out just what that pricey Ivy League Read MorePerp Pulls Off Crime,
But Then Pushes Luck The first rule to a successful life in crime is resisting the temptation to press your luck, as one overreaching perp did on April 27. On that date, the suspect visited Champagne Video, at 81st Street and First Avenue, at around 8 p.m. and absconded with $244.33 worth Read MoreWednesday 19th
Blonde leading the blonde: Hey, are we still at war , or what exactly is the deal here? Nobody's tying a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree, but at 8:30 a.m. this morning- about the time when last night's tequila shots leave our system with a shock -HBO's frizzy-haired little princess, Sarah Read MorePetty Perps Work Toward
Equality of the Sexes If we won't have fully achieved equality of the sexes until there are as many female as male perps, then, if a couple of recent incidents are any indication, we finally seem to be headed in the right direction. On Oct. 24, at 6:40 p.m., two young ladies Read MoreWednesday 6th
Pooches get props! Some New Yorkers we know -we're not naming names -were eerily unmoved when the Twin Towers were attacked and thousands of people died, and only broke down when they heard reports about the rescue dogs, with their little mittens, who helped look for survivors among the rubble …. Tonight, the Read MoreWorld's Laziest Thugs, and the Nookie Bandit!
It certainly won't come as news that thieves can be lazy; if they weren't, they'd be working for a buck like the rest of us instead of holding up people at gunpoint. However, a couple of crooks who robbed a pedestrian on Dec. 14 showed even less willingness Read More"Hey, guys, what do we want?"
The corporate lawyer, a 31-year-old associate, was addressing her seven friends, who were lying in the sun and sipping drinks on a patio at Casa del Campo, the exclusive Dominican beach resort. "What are women buying?" she asked them. The lawyer was talking to The Observer via cell phone. Her Read MoreAmagansett, mid-August: The lilies on the roadside have closed up. They have a shriveled, bent look, like witches' fingers pointing, meaning no good. The black-eyed Susans are not as straight, not as defiantly yellow as they were a week ago. But the neighborhood cardinals are feeling confident. They swoop in and out among the lawn Read More
Harley Baldwin started out in Aspen, Colo., in 1968 with a popcorn wagon and $1,200. He is now the largest real estate taxpayer in the county, owner of the trendy Caribou Club and the Baldwin Gallery. "Bleckner, Baechler, Fischl, Nevelson, Mapple-thorpe and so on," said Mr. Baldwin of the artists whose works have been displayed Read More
