I’m not a big fan of dressing up like a prepped-out Hamptons dork.
Yet, there I was, sporting the obligatory blue blazer, linen shirt, khakis, and suede moccasins, desperately trying to fit in with the stuffy upper-crust crowd watching British scion Prince Harry take on Argentinean stud Nacho Figueras at the star-studded Read More
Hoping to develop a better relationship with Moet Hennessy's consumer base, according to an in-house publicist, the canned-heat purveyor decided to create what they've dubbed the "Next Black Master Art Competition." A contest among 10 African American artists-all of whom entered works that interpret the Hennessy tagline "Flaunt Your Taste"- the five-city competition will come Read More
Susan Seligson wants you to know that she has big breasts. Really big breasts. “Massive boobs,” if you will: “fleshy torpedoes, exploding from my narrow shoulders, hovering ominously above my tiny waist.” Ms. Seligson wants you to empathize with her, too. She wants you to feel the pain of ill-fitting bra straps digging into tender Read More
Yesterday The Transom and I were in the lobby at 915 Broadway, Observer HQ, waiting for the candle- (and occasionally marijuana-) scented elevator. Waiting along with us was an expensively but hiply dressed man in a wool-knit beanie cap, with a Louis Vuitton bag the size of a 4-year-old child. We did a double-take. Yes, Read More
If you’ve ever visited a former Communist republic, you know that graffiti can be a problem. It’s as if, after all those years of stifled creative expression, it explodes all over the place from the nozzle of a spray-paint can. And while free expression (if not vandalism) is to be encouraged, we’d prefer its practitioners Read More
If you’ve ever visited a former Communist republic, you know that graffiti can be a problem. It’s as if, after all those years of stifled creative expression, it explodes all over the place from the nozzle of a spray-paint can.
And while free expression (if not vandalism) is to be encouraged, we’d prefer its practitioners Read MoreTo the Editor: Having eaten at both the French Laundry and Per Se a couple of times, it seems that Moira Hodgson’s Per Se meal was not the $175 tasting, but the special meal for those head chef Thomas Keller wants to impress [“Two Months of Waiting Yields Five Hours in Foodie Heaven,” Dining Out, Read More
If you love laughing at cretins-and, let's face it, who doesn't?-you are no doubt already a devotee of Sacha Baron Cohen, the 32-year-old Brit comedian whose idiotic cast of characters fills his one-man Da Ali G. Show every Sunday at 11 p.m. on HBO. With his best-known title creation, Mr. Cohen has gone into daring Read More
You hear talk in New York about the 70's being back.
Consider the evidence: The economy sucks. A certain spirit of sexual wantonness has seized the population. "Hooking up," on its face, sounds a lot like cruising, and that old line about getting laid now because we might not be here tomorrow, victims of a nuclear Read MoreDa Silvano Cantinetta is the kind of restaurant you dream of stumbling
upon in Rome or Florence. It's fun, glamorous, lively and so utterly Italian that you forget you're in New York. The restaurant has made its home in a former liquor store on Sixth Avenue at Houston Street and is an annex to Da Silvano, Read MoreHoliday gift-giving circa 2001
is a minefield. It's not sufficient that gifts be fabulous-they, like everything else, must now convey the right tone . What constitutes the right post-9/11 tone? It changes every day, and it's subjective. Small wonder New Yorkers are terrified of being either too depressingly earnest or too unpatriotically frivolous. Don't get yourself Read More"Clearly, the French love Americans much more than they'll admit," said my Irish companion. "The evidence is on this plate."
He was eating a wedge of cod, its skin seared to a crisp, that sat on a bed of corn kernels in a custardy sauce, encircled with a stencil of balsamic vinaigrette. "This is the best Read MoreDear students of New York City:
Once again, we've come to the end of another century. And as we face this new era-lo, this new millennium-it's time, once again, to find out: Do you have the credentials to pass into the next century? Or will you be held back and forced to repeat this one? Thus, Read MoreDear students of New York City:
Once again, we've come to the end of another century. And as we face this new era-lo, this new millennium-it's time, once again, to find out: Do you have the credentials to pass into the next century? Or will you be held back and forced to repeat this one? Thus, Read MoreA week after Calvin Klein announced that he had hired Lazard
Frères & Company to help him consider the sale of his company, Bernard Arnault, the man deemed the most likely buyer, was in Manhattan to conduct a little business of his own. Mr. Arnault, the chairman of luxury giant LVMH-Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, was here Read More
