If they can make a musical about Atlantic Yards, why not one about Robert Caro's mammoth book The Power Broker? The Times brought none other than Caro himself to a rehearsal for the new musical about Robert Moses, a show that sounds like a real hit: Bridges rise; Roads blast through; Parks... MORE»
Back in September, Brandon Holley replaced Kim France as editor in chief of Lucky. Today The New York Times wonders what Holley's background in alt women's magazines (Jane) and corporate women's blogs (Yahoo's Shine) means for the watery shopping mag.... MORE»
David Carson, the rockstar-beloved graphic designer and founding art director of Ray Gun is back in the magazine business, as creative director of the new C A R S O N magazine. C A R S O N will publish bi-monthly in 2011, with themed issues covering art, culture, design, fashion, and current events. It will be based in Venice, CA... MORE»
With a covered head the requirement of those working behind the counters of coffeeshops, there's one question that begs to be asked: what's the headgear that defines your inner barista? There are options: the trilby, the baseball cap, the cloche, the kepi, the newsboy, the porkpie, the pageboy, the bowler, the beret, the Stetson, the fedora, the Milan, the cycling cap, and the fake fur... MORE»
A sizeable pocket of Hollywood descended upon 42nd Street last night for the National Board of Review Awards, at Cipriani. The Carpetbagger tagged along for the ride, and returned with anecdotes of the stars and starlets who descended upon the massive space: Ben Affleck, Aaron Sorkin, Jon Hamm, a bored and yawning Christian Bale. You know, the... MORE»
The cerulean warbler--small, blue, North American songbird with its population in decline--is having a moment. 2010 offered the book industry no (living) break-out star. It seems, however, that in the cerulean warbler, benevolent celestial body Jonathan Franzen gave us a literary figure on which future books can ride his bestselling... MORE»
How do you get diners to pay $20 for a dessert during a recession? Get art superstar Marina Abramovic to design it. The Museum of Modern Art's performance-art queen has entered into an artistic collaboration with Park Avenue Winter restaurant chef Kevin Lasko. In a deal brokered by the consulting arm of zippy public art behemoth Creative Time, starting tonight the East 63rd Street restaurant will present her Volcano... MORE»
If your name is Arianna Huffington and you run a website called The Huffington Post, you have been conditioned to believe you have a mandate that allows you to use your cell phone when mere mortals are not allowed to. One of these no-phone zones happens to be an airplane as it is taking off. The HuffPo head honcho pecked and tapped at her all-powerful BlackBerry, much to the annoyance of one Ellis Belodoff, Long Island man.... MORE»
True, it's a fleeting mention, amid a lengthy list of other publications, but hell, we'll take it. In a newly released clip from "Portlandia," the new IFC series starring Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, premiering January 21, there's an unexpected cameo by a certain Speaker John Boehner-colored news... MORE»
The art world has a reputation as free-thinking and tolerant, if not overly so. But in recent weeks, there have been several instances, far more than usual, of alleged censorship involving some of the bigger names in the field. What's going on? To... MORE»
A year ago today, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing 220,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Wyatt Gallery, an American photographer who was on assignment in Curacao when he heard about the quake, says he "felt an urgent, powerful calling to help Haiti." That desire to help, as sincere as it is self-involved, resulted in two brief visits to Port-au-Prince, a book of photographs called Tent Life, and an exhibition now up at the Umbrage Gallery in Dumbo.... MORE»
If I told you that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is visually stunning but emotionally unengaging, that its action is sporadically thrilling but its plot often indecipherable, and if I told you that this is what I've been hearing from friends and reading in chat rooms and status updates, I'd be telling you the... MORE»
In some European mythologies, the manifold, unstructured world is made from the dismembered body of a primordial giant. Once cut apart, he cannot be reassembled. But certain missionaries declare that it was chaos that came first, and that figures are formed from out of chaos by acts of creative will. The painter Jake Berthot, formerly as committed to abstraction as any other druid, heard the good news in the mid-1990s, after moving to the Catskills, and he began drawing low mountains over isometric pencil grids and painting moody, atmospheric pictures of trees.... MORE»
We will bury you. You will be helpless in our frigid embrace. We will stop your trains, halt your cars, stall your trucks and cripple your buses. We will put your city into a coma. All of your money is useless against us. Your billionaire mayor is but an impotent elf. We will close your schools, and your children will learn nothing. We will starve you, chill you, bite you. Ponder the word amputation. Consider a life lived without fingers. Imagine your feet without toes. The wind blows us into your eyes, and you cry. Shovel us, and break your back.... MORE»
In the musical husband-wife tradition of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, and John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, we now have ace pianist Eric Comstock and his wife, Barbara Fasano, who pop the cork on the 2011 cabaret season with a new act at the Algonquin called "Helluva Town," a compilation of carefully picked tunes about the love-hate relationship New Yorkers have with the noisiest, filthiest and most exciting town in... MORE»
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