To Do Sunday: Gifted Performers
Tonight, a group of actors will celebrate the season with a show that benefits their colleagues. The cabaret Feinstein’s at Loews Regency puts on “My Gift of Thanks,” a revue of holiday songs performed...
View ArticleMiami Project, a New Basel Satellite, Arrives
“A few years ago this place was all garbage,” a taxi driver told us earlier this week as we sat in traffic in Midtown Miami. It had been about 10 minutes since we had moved one inch. Once rundown, the...
View ArticleThe Scene at Art Miami
Art Miami returned this year for its 23rd edition with about 125 exhibitors, ranging from the Christie’s–owned Haunch of Venison to Soho’s Eli Klein Fine Art, the Chinese contemporary art gallery that...
View ArticleUntitled Fair Brings Eclectic Mixture of Galleries to the Beach
The first thing you may notice walking into Untitled, the new fair that set up this year right on the beach at 12th Street in Miami Beach, is the abundant natural light streaming through the tent’s...
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Can You Spot Michael Caine’s ‘Million Dollar’ Joke Hidden in His New York...
Michael Caine: Will do anything for $10 million. (PMc) Has everyone read Melena Ryzik's crackerjack profile of prolific actor Sir Michael Caine in The New York Times? It's pretty great! He explains his...
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Upstairs, Downstairs: The Dalloway is New York’s Fanciest ‘Lesbian Implied’...
Kim Stolz and Amanda Leigh Dunn, co-owners of The Dalloway "We've met before," purred Kim Stolz, an impish grin on her face. The Transom was standing in a dark corner with the most famous lesbian to...
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City Council Tackles Our Last Existential Quandary: Countdown Clocks for Bus...
Brad Lander says, "Where's the bus?" (Kit Dillon) On every straphanger's gift list this winter. (Kit Dillon) The bus stop is a lonely place, made lonelier without the reassurances of time. Like...
View ArticleBrooklyn Fixture Khim’s Millennium Market Coming to Downtown Brooklyn High-Rise
Khim’s Millennium Market – until now a fixture only in Williamsburg – has signed on to occupy the ground floor retail space at the base of Brooklyn’s tallest residential building, The Brooklyner at 111...
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Forget Gentrification, It’s An Invasion! ‘UFOs’ Spotted Over Prospect Heights
They came for the coffee. (YouTube) No, there isn’t a hip noise-rock band called UFO tearing up the Brooklyn scene. But there are literally unidentified flying objects burning across the borough’s sky,...
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City Council Grants Property Tax Extensions To Homeowners Without Homes
At least there's a tax extension on these places At least there's one benefit for those whose homes were destroyed or significantly damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Today, the city council voted to give...
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Paging Margaret Sullavan: David Pogue’s Creepy Christmas Involves Underage...
The new not normal (CBS) So we already knew that David Pogue was a little bit...off. The New York Times reporter has a reputation for being both the most famous tech writer in the country as well as...
View ArticlePoll Shows Almost Half of Americans Believe There Is a ‘War on Christmas’
Watch out Santa. A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows 47 percent of Americans believe there is a “War on Christmas.” For years conservative pundits, particularly Fox News host Bill O’Reilly,...
View ArticleNow Facebook Is Down So Everyone Go Home and We’ll Start Over Tomorrow
This day, a day that will live in infamy, has levied blows at both productivity and procrastination. Earlier today Gmail went down for a solid hour, with Gchat inaccessible for even longer. And now,...
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Sale of Sebastian Junger’s Hell’s Kitchen Condo Stirs Up The Perfect Storm
The untamed loft. Not many condo boards exercise their right of first refusal, but it seems that the board of 315 West 36th Street may have taken a disliking to the potential buyer of Sebastian...
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Shtetl Fabulous: Upper East Side Developer Michael Bolla Puts His Money on...
Michael Bolla. The members of the Upper West Side’s Carlebach Shul had nearly polished off their halibut and grilled squash when the band struck up “Killing me Softly,” and Roberta Flack took the stage...
View ArticleA Supreme Moment
The case for same-sex marriage has made it to the Supreme Court, thanks in part to a challenge on behalf of two New York women who were married in Canada five years ago. There’s no telling how the...
View ArticleNo Place for Race
To hear some New York politicians tell it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is collaborating with white Republicans in the state Senate to deny African-Americans a share of power in Albany. This argument is...
View ArticleClassroom Equity
A study by a group called the Campaign for Educational Equity has found that schools in poor neighborhoods still lack critical resources—several high schools, in fact, are in such dire straits that...
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The Land of Oz: Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Watts and Isaac Mizrahi Salute...
Adelina Wong Ettelson, Cora Cahan, Fiona Howe Rudin and Sarah Jessica Parker at the New Victory Theater.(JONATHAN ZIEGLER/PatrickMcMullan.com) It’s quite something to behold a bare-chested man jumping...
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The Good Wife: As Expectations for Next Term Grow, Let Michelle Be Michelle!
Illustration by Jason Seiler Amid all the speculation about Barack Obama’s newfound mojo, a hotly anticipated stiffening of his political spine inspired by his decisive victory in November, a somewhat...
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