After Hours: Lotus BlossomsCalling all models! Hold the attitude! Four clubland veterans race to open Gotham’s next hot spot.
Gramercy’s GadflyO. Aldon James Jr., the eccentric president of the National Arts Club, wants to convert Gramercy Park into a public Garden of Eden. But some nei […]
35 Under 35No, they’re not all on the Net, and “Page Six” mentions didn’t really factor in. (Sorry, Monica!) But a Who’s Who of the city’s Working Class tu […]
Managing EditorsBehind every staggering genius and infinite jester is a book-business A&R man hip enough to hang with the band.
Silicon Alley 10003Long before the suits logged on, a small group of prep-school slackers had faith in the Web. Now they’re the alley’s establishment.
Beauty ContestHow far will these publicists go to keep a client – or an employee?
WWF: The Times ReviewWasn’t it enough that the media mandarins at the New York Times had to decide what news was fit to print over the proletarian din of the ESPN Zo […]
Boy, InterruptedRob Bingham lived the fantasy life of a literary bad boy: a charismatic, arrogant, fabulously wealthy wildchild who died just before the publica […]
Move Over, BuffyFrancine Pascal’s latest teen-book heroine is no “Valley” girl.
Balloon AnimalsPrep-school graduates get pumped for their own Thanksgiving ritual.
Hollow ManTim Burton, the dark-eyed sorcerer behind Batman and Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, now turns his odd […]
Bend Into ShapeExercise trends come and go, but after 2,200 years, yoga is more popular than ever. Pick a class and liberate yourself from the illusion of fitness.
Nightlife ‘99: Wired ThingsFor some high-flying New Yorkers, the party doesn’t even begin until 6 a.m. Tell the bouncer you’ve come to see the Rabbi.
Fever PitchJames Carpinello’s quixotic quest to become the next Travolta – eight times a week.
50 Ways to Love . . . Greenwich VillageIn the first of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love . . .Greenwich Village (11-20)In the first of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our intrepid staff writer sings the praises of her neighbo […]
50 Ways to Love . . . Greenwich Village (1-10)In the first of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love . . .Greenwich Village (21-30)In the first of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our intrepid staff writer sings the praises of her neighbo […]
50 Ways to Love…Greenwich Village (31-40)In the first of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
Tama Janowitz, UnchainedAfter three straight disappointments, New York’s original Lit Girl is back with a ballyhooed new novel, A Certain Age, a sad, skillful ta […]
Welcome to the Fun HouseWhat happens when you cram 20-odd singles into a Hamptons hideaway and give each of them a queen-size bed? Less than you might think.
‘Circling the Drain’In her first collection, Circling the Drain (Rob Weisbach Books; $23), Amanda Davis delivers the stuff of good short stories: passionate writing […]
Regine’s Last StandHer empire of nineteen discos has dwindled to seven, and her New York club draws more of the gold-chain set than of the glitterati. But for the […]
‘The Fires’Stuck in her hometown of Porter, Indiana, 22-year-old Ella – the heroine of Rene Steinke’s lyrical first novel, The Fires (William Morrow; $23) […]
Material GuyWith a mix of marketing moxie and British charm, Guy Ritchie has turned his movie “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” into an indie sensation […]
Six Degrees of SeparationAt first glance, this is perhaps the most unlikely group of cocktail-party sudden best friends. Cabaret star Alan Cumming and … transsexual […]
‘Burning Girl’A sophomore at Johns Hopkins, Drew Burke, the main character in Ben Neihart’s Burning Girl (Rob Weisbach Books; $24), likes patchouli, pot, Neil […]
Everything’s Coming Up RoseanneLesbians! Sex on display! Intertextual readings on the encoding of women’s bodies in the age of phallocentrism! When you hire Roseanne as your g […]
‘Note Found in a Bottle’I was a thirty-year-old woman with a high-profile, dead-end job and no real prospects,” writes Susan Cheever in Note Found in a Bottle (Simon & […]
‘The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium’Downstairs from New York’s offices, there’s a surveillance boutique that captures passing pedestrians on video camera. It doesn’t bother any of […]
A Model WordsmithHis latest tale, Word, is a jazzy, ironic appreciation of writing, filmmaking, and chasing skirt. In two of those arts, at least, downtow […]
Welcome to the DollhousePerky, pretty, and remarkably plugged-in, a pack of young publicists have become the darlings of New York’s demimonde. But be careful – they bite.
In Brief: ‘In the Shadow of the Moons’At 15, a Korean schoolgirl named Nansook Hong was selected by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon as a bride for his eldest son and heir apparent. Born […]
Tall OrderMerchant-Ivory’s glamorous new ingenue never dated ken Branagh. She’s not even British. She lives with her parents on the Upper West Side and sh […]
‘Charming Billy’In the precise, pretty first pages of Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $21), friends and family at the protagonist’s […]
The Brothers PateTwo identical, charming, blond, twentysomething Downtown guys with a darkly comic script (Deceiver) about ne’er-do-well con men: How […]
