Fierce Fouls Fifth
This week in Crain’s New York Business, I turn my nose up at the side-effects of Fierce by Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ms. Jackson (if you’re nasty)
My review of Janet Jackson‘s new book, True You, in tomorrow’s Book World in The Washington Post, calls it “a mash-up of celebrity tell-nothing, dysfunction memoir and Oprah-ready self-help.” And that’s just the first paragraph.
Sibling Revelry Pt. II
My sister Jane is interviewed in today’s WWD about her new book, A Bittersweet Season: Caring For Our Aging Parents — And Ourselves.”
Speaking of Sean Parker…
… there is a really great profile of him in the FT this week.
Back in the New York Groove
Maybe you can go home again. After more than a decade, I’m back in New York magazine today, or more precisely, on its Daily Intel blog, with the back story of Napster founder Sean Parker‘s new home in Greenwich Village. The $20 million townhouse at 40 West 10th Street (above) is a perfect fit for […]
Roll Another One
Psychoactive substance advocate Robert Stiller, co-founder of E-ZWider rolling papers and former Green Mountain coffee kingpin, has bought Tom Brady‘s three-bedroom condo at Time-Warner Center, says curbed.com. More than a decade ago, Stiller gave me an interview about growing up a baby boomer. He wasn’t the richest man in Vermont then. He’s not the richest […]
Check This Out
Those who criticize should also praise when it’s deserved. Good things come to those who wait. And what follows also proves the unstated contention in Rogues’ Gallery that great institutions aren’t the same as the sometimes-flawed transients who run them. Twenty-eight months ago, after I finished writing that book, I gave a copy of a […]
DeLucie Show
How do you get a reservation to sit beneath the Basquiat at John DeLucie‘s The Lion? My latest column in Crain’s New York Business, “Some days, you eat The Lion,” gives some tips —but not the VIP phone number.
The New Yorker vs. New Yorkers?
The New Yorker’s John Cassidy put up a blog post on Wednesday that echoes some of my arguments in Crain’s earlier in the week against Mayor Bloomberg and DOT Commish Janette Sadik-Khan‘s steamroller approach to city governance. City Hall, Cassidy writes, “sometimes seems intent on turning New York into Amsterdam, or perhaps Beijing.” Or Wisconsin, […]
Sadik-Khan-Do
I didn’t like Janette Sadik-Khan before she started her campaign of stealth closings of streets (like Broadway, above) and lanes. Her Department of Transportation’s contempt for mere citizens (i.e. folks without private planes to whisk them away from New York or chauffeured SUVs with sirens and flashing lights to bull their way through traffic jams) […]