OPENINGS | The French GAP is coming to the
Village. Oui, oui!
Frankly, we were worried. A.P.C.-the go-to boutique for
men and women stylistas looking for neat, slimming basics-seemed to
be vanishing in Manhattan, with store cl...
26 AUG 2010
THE AFFLECKS ARE COMING
PICTURE SHOW | Ben and Casey go neck in neck in
the director's chairs.
Remember when Ben Affleck was considered a mook-y,
one-hit wonder ("Good Will Hunting"), and his brother a sad-sack
pilot fish to his brother? Both have b...
26 AUG 2010
AVEDON, AVEDON!
IN THE GALLERY | Auction and exhibition
showcase 'Sir' Richard's works.
Mark your calendars for November 20 when Christie's Paris auctions
off 60 works by the great photographer Richard Avedon. It's the
largest to come to mark...
26 AUG 2010
JAMES ELLROY GETS OEDIPAL, AGAIN
GET LIT | The 'L.A. Confidential' author is
back with 'The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women.' We're
scared.
In his memoir "My Dark Places," the author of "The Black
Dahlia" and L.A.'s resident natty curmudgeon, provided re...
26 AUG 2010
NO ‘MIDDLE OF THE ROAD’ FOR CHRISSIE HYNDE
STYLE COUNSEL | The Pretenders icon debuts new
band, CD, eco-clothes line.
At 58, Chrissie Hynde-like Joan Jett and Patti Smith-isn't
slowing down. She's just-released a new CD, titled "Fidelity!,"
along with her new country-a...
26 AUG 2010
CHARACTER, UNWELCOME
LOS ANGELES | Life is a food court in L.A., but
at least it's always fresh!
Like Baja Fresh! With the opening of a new al fresco, food
court deck at Santa Monica Place, it got us thinking about how
random, and nerdy, so much o...
26 AUG 2010
HEADS, YOU WIN
ARTIFACT | Thirty years ago (really), David
Byrne and band recorded 'Once in a Lifetime.' Anything ever touch
it?
With outré producer Brian Eno instructing Talking Heads
maestro David Byrne to fill in the pulsating Afro-beat w...
20 AUG 2010
WITH PRICES LIKE THESE, YOU’LL GO ‘MAD MEN’!
INTERIOR MOTIVES | Charity ebay auction takes
you back to the days of lost weekends and 'wine and roses.'
From Draper-ies to coffee tables, '60s dresses to
kidney-shaped making-love seats, ebay has started a frenzy in the
name...
20 AUG 2010
GO, CAR, GO!
IN THE GALLERY | Photographer Lee Friedlander
takes an eye-opening road-trip to the Whitney Museum of American
Art. Gas up to go.
The great art photographer Lee Friedlander, whose works
are featured in the Thompson LES hotel,...
20 AUG 2010
BURGER & BARREL OF FUN
FOOD LINE | If you like a cabernet with your
blue cheese patty, this will be the place.
Coming next month, Manhattan restaurateur John McDonald
(LURE Bar, Chinatown Brasserie) is opening a new bistro on Houston
Street in down...
