Which tech start-up helped fund a statue of RoboCop as civic art in Detroit? Which newsweekly magazine is putting arts coverage Firth and foremost? Which Lindsay Lohan "friend" says he put her forward for a Late Show... MORE»
Rodarte, created by the Mulleavy sisters Laura and Kate, is one of the most exclusive shows during fashion week. The company is a tightly run ship and they strictly ration the invitations. Even the location of the event is cloaked in secrecy and the address is only sent out to editors and photographers at the very last minute. This year their Fall 2011 show took place at the ultra-trendy Gagosian... MORE»
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The MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architecture Program has become a kingmaker of sorts for young architects in the city and beyond. Now in its 12th year, the program has returned to Brooklyn to select its new architectural royalty, suggesting yet again that all the city's creative types have indeed left Manhattan for fairer (and more affordable)... MORE»
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In just the last couple of months, we've watched the ins and the outs, the ups and the downs at the Empire State Building. The activity continues... MORE»
All that's missing is a Maya Rudolph novel! The women of Saturday Night Live's early-2000s renaissance are following in Tina Fey's footsteps by writing books.... MORE»
Not everything has moved to Lincoln Center for Fashion Week. Last Wednesday, Anna Wintour and Ralph Lauren ate lunch together right here at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Just the two of them! Harvey Weinstein was here last week, too, eating with a banker. And he kept the banker waiting, which must mean he is important, right? I understand why he was late because he was coming from downtown, but... MORE»
Faith Salie sounded exhilarated when we spoke to her around eight last night. The TV special she hosted, a television adaptation of New York magazine's highbrow/lowbrow "Approval Matrix" feature, had just finished taping: "It's hot off the presses--today's news." The thirty-minute special, titled The Approval Matrix as well, is to air tonight at 11p.m., following Top Chef. Salie, a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!... MORE»
New York real estaters met at NYU's Schack Institute on Wednesday morning for a brief breakfast forum on construction ethics. While the mafia wasn't represented—possibly because of the mass arrests last month—their presence could've gone a long way to help filling up the empty... MORE»
Amongst the city's power elite, Harriet Cohen is the maestro of the highly public marital split. It's fitting then that one of the city's top divorce attorneys has left the firm in which she was a founding partner and, in dramatic fashion, taken an uber-prime spot in Seven Times... MORE»
This LEED-certified West Village condo in the converted Superior Ink Building is perfect for the environmentally friendly buyer with $17 million lying... MORE»
At a showcase for House of Waris at the Museum of Arts & Design in Columbus Circle, The Observer bonded with the designer Waris Ahluwalia over our mutual... MORE»
We were excited when we received yesterday's press release, announcing that Lindsay would be appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman to deliver a Top Ten list. Would she wear "That Dress"? Today's press release, though, is a bit disappointing. Says a spokesperson for Letterman's production company, Worldwide... MORE»
To a literal-minded reader, "Lust for Life," a poem Michael Robbins published last April in The New Yorker, would have raised a few questions. Are elephants ever cannibals? Has the poet ever operated a meth lab? Did that meth lab often explode? Is Mr. Robbins really often compared to Britney Spears? Has John Milton ever jumped out of his birthday cake? Does he really think everyone in Sweden is an idiot? For the magazine's fact-checkers, perhaps the city's foremost partisans of the literal, the issue was, Who invented... MORE»
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