George Whitman, the owner of the legendary Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co., died yesterday at the age of 98. Known for extending hospitality to writers on Parisian sojourns, Mr. Whitman's bookstore carried on a literary dream long after that dream died. Alexander Nazaryan remembers his stay there at the New Read More
While in Paris for the recent couture week, I found a pink iPhone under my seat at the Chanel show. No one called to claim it, so I'm sharing the file below, with hopes that the owner will read it and be in touch.
Hi from Couture in Paris. I'm Mitzi and I'm 10, and Read More
Steve Schwarzman is taking a trip to the City of Lights, Reuters reports, offering clarity to a vague report last week that the Blackstone CEO was going somewhere in Europe, but no one knew exactly where. Says Reuters:
Schwarzman has close ties to France. He knows French President Nicolas Sarkozy well, the source said. Read More
Disgraced Tour de France winner adopts an "I'm taking you all with me" stance [NYT]
"Beef Hampers Rap Museum." [WSJ]
Third deputy mayor departs Bloomberg administration [WNYC]
Dumbo is the new Madison Avenue [WSJ]
Is The Good Wife the new Law & Order for New York actors? [NYT]
Single Parisian Read More
With apartments fetching an average price of $7,500 per square foot, Fifth Avenue ranked third place in a new survey of the top 10 most expensive residential streets in the world from Barclay’s Wealth Bulletin. But if you thought top-tier residential prices in Manhattan were stratospheric, take a look at the two most expensive Read More
Wowza! Apparently they buy buildings in Paris too. Naturally, it's a bunch of burly American I-bankers who made the biggest single-asset deal in European history. Lehman Brothers has purchased Coeur Defense, a series of five buildings, from Goldman Sachs for 2.11 billion euros, or $2.8 billion U.S. dollars. It's a record for the overseas bunch. Read More
As he did with Balthazar, Keith McNally has once again set a stage where the play is about eating and the actors are the diners. This time it’s not a Paris bistro, but a rustic trattoria somewhere in the hills of Italy. Morandi’s low, beamed ceiling is hung with wooden chandeliers topped with small brown Read More
Going Dutch: Basic Instinct Director Plumbs His Homeland’s Past “We didn’t sleep one hour—not one hour,” said German actor Sebastian Koch, describing the Oscar-night fêting of his last film, The Lives of Others, a surprise win for Best Foreign-Language Film this year. “We had an invitation at the Governor’s Ball. And then, after, the Germans Read More
Going Dutch: Basic Instinct Director Plumbs His Homeland’s Past “We didn’t sleep one hour—not one hour,” said German actor Sebastian Koch, describing the Oscar-night fêting of his last film, The Lives of Others, a surprise win for Best Foreign-Language Film this year. “We had an invitation at the Governor’s Ball. And then, after, the Germans Read More
A relaxed local restaurant, the sort of place you can drop into without a reservation, where you could eat several times a week: This is what Austrian chef Daniel Angerer and his fiancée Lori Mason had in mind when they opened Klee Brasserie in Chelsea a few months ago. Indeed, with its storefront windows, long Read More
Miss Potter may have the cinematic punch of a wet vanilla wafer, but the cynics who have dismissed it as a confection sweet enough to fatten a dentist’s coffer have overlooked one thing: Its unpretentious intentions and feel-good charm are a welcome relief from the deadly, violent despair found elsewhere this winter in overrated bores Read More
Today, New York Times' staffers received an email from Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman and Standards Editor Craig Whitney, outlining ethical concerns about posting to the new Travel web site. Righ now, readers--and Times reporters--can comment on London, Paris and Los Angeles. After the jump is the full memo with guidelines, such as no Read More
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there’s anything wrong with Casino Royale. But Happy Feet—written and directed by George Miller—is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can’t resist straying into the Inspirational. This Read More
Janet Malcolm is one of my idols, I'd read her shopping lists if someone would print them. Her book The Journalist and the Murderer is a cultural landmark, it changed the relationship of journalists and their sources, giving more power to the sources. So when The New Yorker ran her piece on Gertrude Stein Read More
