If you somehow manage to sneak into Marc Jacobs’ show at the Lexington Avenue Armory next month, don’t expect to be sipping bubbly at his after party. Why? Well, because there isn’t going to be one. The recession just about ransacked the fashion industry these past few months, sending some of our favorite designers home […]
For spring summer 2009, Paul Smith Jeans has interpreted classic Shakesperean characters onto t-shirts.
Yorick (Hamlet) Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) all get re-interpreted by Paul Smith Jeans. These illustrated organic cotton t-shirts depict Yorick, Oberon and Mercutio as a free spirited rockstar entertainer, a madman and a modern day ‘boy […]
Gay in Gotham
Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is to unveil the world’s first gay superhero.
High school basketball star Thom Creed hides his developing superpowers along with his sexuality.
Former Marvel Comics boss Stan, 86 — who also created the Hulk and the X-Men — will unleash the character in an hour-long TV drama being shot in the […]
Dame Vivienne Westwood, the British fashion designer, wants to write the next Sex and the City film.
The 67-year-old has written to the show’s producers to ask them to use her plot for the sequel, it has been reported.
A source told the Independent newspaper: “She’s been obsessed with the film ever since she saw it. She […]
The age of super-sized record shops in Manhattan is fading out: The Virgin Megastore in Times Square is closing and will be replaced by a popular clothing chain.
The massive store on Broadway near 46th Street is expected to close in April. The store’s 200 or so employees were told this week about its demise. That […]
“The Museum of Modern Art has announced “Mike Nichols,” a two-week retrospective of 17 films that surveys the wide range of Mike Nichols’ directing career running April 14-May 1, 2009.
Spanning more than four decades, the series comprises a collection of Nichols’ most significant works in film, from 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and 1967’s […]
This exhibition will present more than one hundred and fifty studio portraits of African Americans from the mid-twentieth century, part of an important recent acquisition by The Met. Produced by mostly unidentified makers, the photographs are a poignant, collective self portrait of the African American experience during the 1940s and 1950s—a time of war, middle-class […]
FRIDAYS
Susanne Bartsch brings her nightlife magic to the McKittrick Hotel with Bartschland. Join us at midnight for an eclectic and eccentric cabaret extravaganza where a night at the opera collides with a burlesque circus for a high fashion madcap unforgettable entertainment experience. This late night show will feature an ever-changing roster of NYC’s most brilliant nightlife […]
