CB Richard Ellis in a new report declares London's West End and Moscow the world's most expensive office markets, according to occupancy costs for the 12 months ending Sept. 30. Among the 50 office markets ranked by cost in the report, New York doesn't make an appearance until No. 15: Midtown, with occupancy costs of 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
Skip the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré for shopping, and New York, too. The newest stop on the gilt-edged global shopping circuit for art and antiques is Moscow. There’s even an entire new shopping center, a direct copy of Manhasset, heavily spiced with triple-A luxury brands like Fendi furs, Ferraris and John Galliano dicey togs. Read More
Skip the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré for shopping, and New York, too. The newest stop on the gilt-edged global shopping circuit for art and antiques is Moscow. There’s even an entire new shopping center, a direct copy of Manhasset, heavily spiced with triple-A luxury brands like Fendi furs, Ferraris and John Galliano dicey togs. Read More
It's been a while since anybody picked up the shrinking alt-alt weekly, but the Sun has news today that the current regime at the New York Press has been replaced by my friend and Ditmas Park neighbor Harry Siegel, an occasional Observer columnist. The Press, if you've read it in the last year Read More
OK, we'll admit that we haven't actually read through that IOC report yet. The objective observers of this occult process, like AP, are calling it a win for Paris, with London in second place. The bookies are writing off everybody but Paris and London. And everybody but Paris is spinning like crazy: London Read More
On the southeast corner of Third Avenue and Ninth Street:
Through a glass door and up a dingy flight of concrete stairs and you're at Village Yokocho, a hidden Japanese restaurant. Red paper lanterns hang from a blue cloudy ceiling. Long lines of patrons trail down the stairs-those in the know will walk directly past the Read MoreNever underestimate the fortitude of the middle classes of England. Though they appear to be half-dead, they stoically endure. In their innately repressed way, they survive by bloodlessly appearing to have no emotion. Emotion frightens the horses. You must deduce what the reticent middle-class Englishman is thinking from what he doesn't say. Should a massive Read More
Richard Chamberlain is spending the month of July in the Norman Rockwell setting of Stockbridge, Mass., where the Berkshire Theatre Festival, one of America's most famous summer-stock companies, is celebrating its 75th year, and television's once-hunky Dr. Kildare is celebrating a few things himself. In his personal life, he is nearing 70 and currently the Read More
"What's this I've just eaten?" one of my friends asked the young waiter, pointing to the shards of a pastry turnover becalmed on the remains of a mysterious sauce.
"Ghujjia," he replied promptly. "You aren't from India, are you?" my friend asked. "No. Moscow." "Are there any Indian restaurants in Moscow?" The waiter looked surprised. "Oh, Read MoreOn a Saturday night in May, Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi were drinking Pepsi and smoking American Spirits in a one-bedroom apartment in a high-rise near Times Square. They took turns leaning over a plastic compact disc case, snorting lines of speed. I declined their offer, and instead popped a tranquilizer I sometimes take called Read More
The Russian sculptor Antoine Pevsner (1886-1962) has long occupied a secure place in the annals of modernist art as one of the pioneer talents of the Constructivist movement that flourished in Russia in the years just before and after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. With his better-known younger brother Naum Gabo, Pevsner published a Realistic Read More
The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow , edited by William Burr. New Press, 515 pages, $30.
Surely, Henry Kissinger considers himself the supreme practitioner of Realpolitik , rivaled only by Richelieu, who defined raison d'état as the interest of the state transcending all other considerations. But a funny thing happened when he Read MoreWhen I was growing up in Connecticut, two things were true: Vogue was good, Russia was bad. I knew Vogue was good because I had a cousin who wore black turtlenecks and Capri pants 365 days a year, carried a Yorkshire terrier in an alligator shoulder bag and worked at Vogue as an illustrator in Read More
On the occasion of the current exhibition of Aleksandr Rodchenko at the Museum of Modern Art, it may be worth pausing for a moment to recall a little history. For almost nothing has been more remarkable about the art history of the last two decades than the sheer magnitude of the attention that has been Read More
