When do high ceilings framed by skin-bare, unpainted walls and long expanses of hardwood floor start to glitter with lights, and invite? When do pleasant archways successively crowning the shafts of narrow hallways, window-sills, frames and glass bring actual dimension to a space? When people weave in between one another, converse and shed ideas. Like […]
The Capitale of taste–Starchef’s final projects
Rising star chefs received their culinary awards at the starchefs gala-Tuesday, February 21st. It encapsulated culinary wisdom, skill and severe mission–pastries, cocktail dreams and charcuterie incisions. Gleaming as big and tall as the waterfall-like beams of SoHo’s Capitale venue were chefs, artisans, bartenders, concept visionaries alike. Short rib, pumpkin seed laden spirits, and exquisite […]
Intellectualizing Fashion: Philipp Plein afterparty NYPL
Injecting a seemingly superficial NYFW with scholarly class, the historically pivotal New York Public Library apparently hosts supreme spectacles of music, ambiance and fashion trends. The Phillip Plein designer’s after party, Monday February 13th, enjoyed a ton of celebrities, bumper cars, two auditoriums brimmed with beats, sequins, feathery eye-lids, Paris Hilton, and too much more. […]
Rolls Royce ‘struts its stuff’ too, NYFW
Conveniently parked atop Canoe Studios in Manhattan’s Western Chelsea, was the totem Rolls Royce: The hot voluptuous car– around which everyone pranced in revelry–with Hennessy. A terrace abundant with prominent lights transformed concerns into dream. Revelry, with Hennessy… angelic caterers and bystanders, mostly dressed in black…(like the car)… pronounced agendas, relevant to steer. Peer-ing forward, […]
A Telescopic Look at Spooner by Pete Dexter
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
3Squared gallery: Raw Interview
A new, one-of-a-kind collective arts gallery in Chelsea brings together performance art, music, fashion and visual art to excite all elements of your sensational curiosity. This sweetest specimen of sequins, graffiti and grit, 3-Squared is taking the NYC art world on edge, one ‘Apocalyptic’ event at a Fashionista’s-Den time. M= Marina Dojchinov/ A=Akaash Mehta […]
Whitney Museum Art & Glitterati
Crowds bedazzled in coolness, all around at the Whitney Museum of American Art Tuesday night had patrons fiercely exchanging cards and macaroons. DJ sets from Mia Moretti and Lion Babe extended into the night, drawing in New York City skylights, realities and perspective. An all around fractal of delight, the museum’s new exhibitions after hours include: Dreamlands: Immersive […]
COSMINA at Max Laniado Gallery
“There are so many cosmic themes in the etymology of her name, it is as though she was born to paint this way” – Ellie Jahrling Representing about 12 artists on exclusive terms, Max Laniado gallery hosts Cosmina’s second solo exhibit (after 100 solo exhibitions in Europe) “The External Facets of […]
Private vs. Public: George Lewis’ The Other Within Exhibit
“This is not a woman thing; this is a human thing. Until men soften and see themselves as emotional creatures as well as rational ones, we will continue to be nihilistic.” –George Lewis New York City epitomizes the reconciliation of opposites: Rich and poor, dark and light, or high and low. George Lewis re-privileges the […]








