Fashion Roundup: Betsey Johnson’s Fling With Anna Nicole; Victoria Beckham...
Betsey Johnson said she once made out with Anna Nicole Smith because she couldn't resist her post-Trim Spa slimmed-down bod and bullet bra covered in roses. [Vogue UK] The shoppers of Wal-Mart, J.C....
View ArticleEvents Roundup: Friday, February 27, 2009
6 p.m. The New York Wine Expo. offers more than 170 producers and more than 600 sample wines. At the Jacob K. Javits Center, 655 West 34 Street. Admission ranges from $75-$95. 7 p.m. "Brother, Can You...
View ArticleArad Chic: Fashion Flock Unwinds With Sculpture at MoMa
Last night at a private viewing of the Ron Arad: No Discipline exhibit at MoMA, guests received a much-needed break from clothes and runways. No Discipline is the first major U.S. retrospective of...
View ArticleLady Gaga and Terence Koh Put On a Show Together in Tokyo
ArtForum has a stressful Scene & Herd piece today about the opening of a new club in Tokyo that featured a performance by Lady Gaga and Terence Koh. Only 900 people were there to witness it, and...
View ArticleLet the Bicycle Backlash Begin
It used to be that biking in the city fell into the domain of messengers, mad men and David Byrne. Now, thanks to the Bloomberg administration and progressive streets czarina Janette Sadik-Khan, bike...
View ArticleBike Lames! Straw Men on 10-Speeds in New York's Last Culture War
"I see people who buy $25 mac-and-cheese on both sides of this argument," Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, told The Observer last week as he finished dinner at...
View ArticleYou May Find Yourself in an Ambassador’s Back Yard!
Outside the French ambassador’s home the people of Washington, D.C., mobbed John Legend as if the city had never before seen a star. David Arquette walked out of the gates and met bunches of fans...
View ArticleThe Eight-Day Week: August 3-August 10
Rangel. Wednesday, August 3 The Ultimate Art Machine Is the Guggenheim the Shake Shack of museums? Locations, locations, locations! Not content with outposts in the Basque Country and the...
View ArticleThe Whole World, In His Hands: David Byrne Brings His Art to Chelsea
After the Pace Gallery’s Marc Glimcher completed his recent purchase of prime real estate beneath the High Line between West 24th and 25th streets—it abuts one of Pace’s two branches on 25th Street—he...
View ArticleDavid Byrne Making a Little Too Much Sense: How Music Works Is Safe and Boring
Mr. Byrne. (Photo: Catalina Kulczar) About two-thirds of the way into How Music Works (McSweeney's, 352 pages, $32) by David Byrne, one of rock music’s most omniscient presences, there is a rare...
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