Everyone had so much fun at The Dutch this summer! We can hardly remember what sun is like, what with the never-ending rain, but during that warmer season the city flocked to Andrew Carmellini's new SoHo restaurant for plentiful seafood and cocktails, not to mention the wistful old-turned-new ambiance. Sam Sifton called it the Read More
So much for Karl Lagerfeld's Dubai dream. Like many things in the Emirate, it has proven too good to be true, falling victim to the city's collapse. Like the hundreds if not thousands of projects that have been abandoned before it, all that remains of the Isla Moda is its otherworldly renderings.
As The Observer Read More
The alleged architect of an $880-million Ponzi scheme may have copped to the charge, The Associated Press reports.
According to prosecutors, Nevin Shapiro, the man behind already suspicious-sounding Capitol Investments USA, bilked more than 60 investors using the technique pioneered by Charles Ponzi in 1920 and perfected by Bernie Madoff through the 1990s and 2000s. And Read More
In L.A., foreclosures jumped 249 percent annually to 5,982 in July, according to a report Read More
The Real Deal magazine this month launched a South Florida edition. The flagship New York edition has been around since March 2003; and much of the business side, including all of the production, of the South Florida edition, currently at 48 pages, will remain out of New York as well. (Full disclosure: I was Read More
Did you realize that, according to the BBC, CSI: Miami—the one starring David Caruso—is the world’s most popular TV series? It features on more Top 10 ratings lists in more countries than any other show. This seems to me a phenomenon worth investigating. Especially since I’ve recently fallen under the spell of the show through Read More
It sounds like a medical procedure you’d hope to avoid, or like something you’d see in a sci-fi movie: Neutron Activation Analysis. It’s actually a high-tech way to take a sample of something and precisely determine its elemental makeup. A venture called the Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project, which keeps a database of over 2,100 samples Read More
Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches” a toothbrush across his teeth as adeptly as a D.J. Read More
Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches” a toothbrush across his teeth as adeptly as a D.J. Read More
In the annual festival of humidity, it’s hot enough without so many dismal movies polluting the ozone even more. I didn’t like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (a filmed lecture with charts and graphs, not a movie), but I think he’s onto something. We are destroying our planet, and I’m firmly convinced the movies are Read More
We cannot cede sovereignty over critical infrastructure like our ports. This is a job that America has to do. -Hillary at a Miami fundraiser earlier today, reports NBC. Hillary is scheduled to attend the Jewish Community Relations Council's legislative breakfast this Sunday at the 92nd Street Y. Maybe there will be an Read More
On a recent frosty Tuesday night, taxi doors slammed as people piled out and streamed towards Pacha, a nightclub in the West 40’s. With lips pursed—the way lips can only do when speaking French—people called out to friends waiting in line or talked excitedly into their cell phones, hoping to reach the one person who’d Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
Christmas parties prepare to tear Manhattan's offices up! Our yearly round-up of where and when to crash. New York's art world went to Miami last week and all they came back with was an empty bank account and maybe some strange rash. Our correspondent reports. Could there be more action at the Read More
