There's a film coming in March about Bill Cunningham, unsung hero of curbside couture, peerless photographer, a fashion eye with endless taste and enthusiasm. He's the editor of On The Street, the page in the New York Times Styles section that cobbles together Cunningham's favorite looks that he found while turning his lens on New York City.... MORE»
The Golden Globes are perhaps the most superficial of high-profile award shows. They are almost transparently so -- the winners are honored, yes, but everyone's in on the charade. The awards go to some people but not others and everyone smiles and claps. The Golden Globes, then, are really just an excuse to play dress up. And the actual ceremony is only part of the fun, what with the preparties, afterparties and after-after parties.... MORE»
For his latest exhibition at Pace Gallery, conceptual British artist Keith Tyson plucked 52 images from the backs of playing cards—including the Twitter logo and a 1950s pinup girl—and transformed them into paintings. "The back of a card, normally, doesn't represent anything," said Tyson, who is also a card collector. "When you put 52 of them together from different decks from the last 200 years, they really begin to... MORE»
There was no Ricky Gervais at last night's REBNY annual banquet, but obviously attendees had been watching the Golden Globes, as emerald green was the color of the night for all the lovely ladies of the city's building elite. There was even a gentleman in a green felt suit with matching Jets cufflinks. R-E-B-N-Y. REBNY REBNY REBNY. He was not, as we'd hoped, Woody Johnson.... MORE»
Here's a rare, happy story from the book world to start the weekend off. American Rose author Karen Abbott has left Random House and will return to her first editor, Julia Cheiffetz, who is now at the Harper imprint of... MORE»
If they can fancy-up the Fulton Mall, it was only a matter of time before Canal Street went upscale. The tourist-clogged thoroughfare is getting a new hip Asian bistro from Tom and Anthony Martignetti, according to... MORE»
Thirty years ago, John Lennon was gunned down outside his Central Park West home, so it stands to reason the Dakota would have decent security. Apparently not, as Yoko Ono bumped into a Korean tourist who had snuck into the building to snap pictures on the roof. (It is pretty picturesque up... MORE»
Taco Bell has decided to pull its commercials from MTV's sexy teen sex show Skins, reports The Hollywood Reporter. "Upon further review, we've decided that the show is not a fit for our brand and have moved our advertising to other MTV programming," Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch... MORE»
Paramount Pictures announced today that Sacha Baron Cohen has chosen a role that will complete the triad that he started with Borat and Bruno. What persona has he chosen to embody following a challenged Kazahkstani and a flamboyantly gay Austrian? You may be aware of a certain Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. Among his less memorable accomplishments was the penning of a novel, entitled Zabibah and The King, in which the protagonist was an oppressive Iraqi ruler -- basically a stand-in for Saddam, only set in the 12th... MORE»
There was flannel everywhere. It was the premiere of "Portlandia," the sure-fire TV hit from Fred Armisen (of Saturday Night Live fame) and Carrie Brownstein (of now-defunct rock heroes Sleater-Kinney), and everywhere we looked we were greeted with a wash of that plaid-heavy cozy super-nineties fabric, flannel. The bartenders serving up Portland's own Rogue Ale? Wearing flannel. The caterers swooping around with balls of organic goat cheese and grass-fed beef sliders? Wearing flannel. Many of the people in the crowd from Portland or associated with Portland? Wearing... MORE»
Aziz Ansari, the reigning funniest man on the planet, is not one to be trusted on Twitter. For instance, last week he spent the day fake-retweeting Whole Foods and L.L. Bean (the clothier never said "your comedy sucks dick... MORE»
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had a problem. How, they asked themselves, can we get these misanthropic twenty-somethings to smoke our cigarettes instead of the ones they already smoke? Then, a light bulb: Brooklyn. We'll sell our cigarettes on the cred accrued by Williamsburg.... MORE»
Lady Bunny, the disco-happy drag queen who's graced New York nightlife with wig-wearing performances for decades, has fired shots against a certain former Alaskan governor. Sarah Palin's taken a good amount of heat since her response to the Giffords tragedy, but to our knowledge Lady Bunny is the first member of the drag queen contingent to throw her hat into the ring. She made a sure-to-be-viral video, it's called "The Ballad of Sarah Palin," and it is something... MORE»
An iPhone app from New York-based GoldRun made just for the Sundance Film Festival plants virtual polar bears around Park City. Users can take a picture with one of these bears and gain access to some VIP-only events, according to a press release. GoldRun makes "augmented reality apps" -- a generic term that usually refers to superimposing media over objects in the real world. GoldRun also recently released that app that lets users take a picture with superhottie Brooklyn... MORE»
This season of "American Idol," its tenth, began as it needed to, with an introduction to its new judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez (who join game-hardened veteran Randy Jackson). But did it have to be so lengthy? Minute after minute was devoted to a montage of TV-news gossip about potential new judges from last summer: bandied-about names like Justin Timberlake and Diddy did little more than begin to diminish Tyler and Lopez. The show itself did the... MORE»
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