I have seen the scat future and it is Nikki Yanofsky
The sweet sixteen sensation live on May 4th 2010 at Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, Columbus Circle
History made “palatable”
The annual Vogue magazine corporate promotion party… oh, sorry, the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Party of the Year for its Costume Institute… was held last night and inspired the usual outpouring of uncritical praise from press folk who probably did not pay the $15,000-per-plate price of admission. Once the exclusive social event of the year, the […]
Father of Mine
Cindy Adams takes off after New York’s new bike Nazis at the end of an hysterical rant-romp on urban manners in today’s New York Post. Though her real target is “our revered, beloved, adored Emperor Bloomberg” for the “imbecilic, idiotic, vehicular ruling” that “turned Broadway into Rockaway… The Street of Dreams, the most famous area […]
All Things Must Pass
The New York Post announced this morning that I’ve left Bergdorf Goodman magazine after seven-plus years as its editor, having “aggressively transformed the once-catalog-like publication into an eclectic cultural forum.” It also went from a money-loser to a profit-making machine for the store after I replaced fashion-magazine-like promotion pieces on designers and merchandise with what […]
Announcing the Rogues’ Gallery paperback launch event
The updated paperback edition of Rogues’ Gallery will be launched May 5th at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn. Read about the event here.
Signs of the Apocalypse Pt. II
The magazine rack next to the checkout line at Whole Foods in Columbus Circle has been replaced by a mountain of ale. Is this a message in a bottle to magazine writers and editors?
Cry, the Beloved Profession
“Don’t you realize we’re just typists for plutocrats now?” — a 24-year-old reporter at one of the world’s largest news organizations, yesterday.
Ghost Story
Tom Hoving makes a posthumous appearance on Page Six today with his new BFF and successor as Metropolitan Museum director Guy-Philippe Lannes de Montebello, who was known as Mr. Five Names when he ran an art museum in Texas. A nugget concerning Montebello’s appearance (above) at Hoving’s memorial early this month, it’s the first leak […]
Rogues’ Gallery Theme Song
I think books should have theme songs. This one’s for Rogues’ Gallery. Thanks to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Am I Blue?
A note last night from Avatar co-star Stephen Lang‘s PR woman informed me that my much-publicized upcoming appearance on May 20th (at 6:30 PM) at the Katonah Museum and Katonah Village Library’s CrossTalk series, featuring two experts talking on unrelated topics, will not be with Lang, but with Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson. (All CrossTalk […]