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Plácido Domingo and Julian Schnabel Have a ‘Titanic’ Moment
The artist paints the tenor and we schwoon.
Posted 09/17/08 in Daily Intel : The Schnabulous Life
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Social-Lit Author Tatiana Boncompagni Thinks $1,000 Is a Little Much to Spend on a Haircut
The author of the new chick-lit novel ‘Gilding Lily,’ which is about socialites in Manhattan, answers our 21 Questions.
Posted 09/16/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Author and Critic Daniel Mendelsohn Hated ‘Spring Awakening,’ Loves ‘Law & Order’
The critic and author thoughtfully answers our usual 21 questions.
Posted 08/15/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Will ‘Maid in Manhattan’ Be Made in Manhattan?
J.Lo is adapting her 2002 chick flick for the small screen.
Posted 08/13/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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New York’s ‘Biggest Loser’ Hopefuls Want to Trade Muumuus for Prada
The hit NBC weight-loss show held auditions on Saturday at Rockefeller Center. We were there chubby-chasing.
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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P. Diddy Is New York
We didn't know what we were missing, but what we were missing was Sean Combs.
Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel : Bons Mots
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‘Assassination of Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama’ Exhibit Shut Down
“It’s about the media,” the artist cried. “The media!”
Posted 06/04/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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Madonna's Buns Are Made of Knowledge, Not Steel, Says Paltrow
In the July issue of 'Bazaar,' Gwyneth Paltrow spills the secrets Hollywood trainers don't want you to know about.
Posted 06/03/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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Steve Has Never Watched ‘Sex and the City’!
Does he even know that he is Steve?
Posted 05/28/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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We Are All Ashley Alexandra Dupré
Performance artist Karen Finley has created a performance-art piece that lets us into the mind of America's prostie.
Posted 05/22/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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‘Sex and the City’ Movie: We Know Who Dies (Updated)
Cynthia Nixon says that in the upcoming movie, one of the characters dies. We think we know just who it is.
Posted 04/17/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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Schnabel Schmacks Down Documentarian
Filmmaker Paul H-O gets told off by growling angry Papa Bear Julian Schnabel — in his own documentary. In your face, H-O! Now you know never to cross the Schnabe!
Posted 04/11/08 in Daily Intel : Cultural Capital
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Tinsley Mortimer May Already Be Super Enough
At the Takashi Murakami exhibit, the socialite explains what superpowers she would like to have and why.
Posted 04/04/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Alex Frost Punched Owen Wilson in the Face
Drillbit Taylor actor Alex Frost looks sweet and innocent, but watch out for his right hook.
Posted 03/21/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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In Which We Are Schtartled by a Schmoking Schnabel
The other night at the opening of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s photo exhibition, “Merce My Way,” at 401 Projects on West Street, we were ruminating on the rapidly changing schneigborhood with gallery owner Mark Seliger. “You just blink and there’s a new building up," said Seliger, adding that he is often asked to sell his building, just south of the Richard Meier condos. He wasn't entirely sold on Julian Schnabel’s nearby Palazzo Chupi, he admitted, at least not until he went inside. “It’s amazing," he declared. “It’s growing on me, definitely growing on me." Another local, Michael Angelo, proprietor of supermodel-central salon Wonderland on West 13th Street, chimed in. “I think that everybody had a little heart attack at first," he said of the pink palazzo. Seliger recently photographed the entire Schnabel family for a L’Uomo Vogue spread. Papa Schnab, he said, had insisted on wearing his own clothing. “You can count on him wearing pajamas, that’s for sure,” he said. And then, as if he were a rotund, benevolent Beetlejuice, at the sound of his name, Schnabel appeared.
Posted 03/18/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Art Crowd Gets Heated at Armory Dance Party
It's hard to have a throwdown in skinny jeans, but on Saturday night at the Whitney Biennial’s 24-hour dance party at the Armory, it happened: The hipsters went wild. The event, the culmination of Agathe Snow’s 96-hour marathon of continuous dance, was cut seven hours short of the goal when, around 4 a.m., a fight erupted mid–dance floor. At first, onlookers thought the scuffle — which began with just handful of fighters and swelled to more than twenty — was an ironic piece of performance art. “I thought they were kidding,” said Eden Mackenzie, a video editor who was on the dance floor when the fists began to fly. “Then they all just started jumping on one guy and punching him as he lay on the ground.” Doreen Remen, co-founder of the Art Production Fund and one of the event’s producers played down the tussle to New York: “It was just two guys, and they were asked to leave,” she said. "It all happened very fast.” But Obinna Izeogu, an art director who attended the party described the scene as a “mini-riot," in which blows were traded for more than fifteen minutes as more partygoers joined in the fray that continued to swell even after D.J.'s killed the tunes (and Snow's vision of infinite dance). “It started off like two and then it just became a rumble,” said Izeogu. Armory security staff, unprompted, dialed 911 for reinforcements, and officers who responded called it “that gigantic fight”.
Posted 03/17/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Fred Armisen Performs in ‘Honeyface’
Lorne Michaels took some heat for picking Venezuelan-Japanese cast member Fred Armisen to play Barack Obama when Saturday Night Live returned to the air at the end of February, but Armisen himself isn't having any trouble with it. "I just want to have fun," he said at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 10. "I like wearing outfits and doing things." So how does he turn himself into the country's potentially first black president? "It's really quick," Armisen said. "There's shading on my eyebrows and plastic behind my ears. And there's a little bit of something called Honey, a honey color, that is something I would wear when I play Prince." About the perception that "Weekend Update" favors Hillary Clinton, Armisen's response was similar to what SNL writer Jim Downey told today's Times: "I think they're not favoring anyone," he said. "The pieces are more making fun of the media than anything else. It's all about the jokes." —Bennett Marcus Related: SNL Searches for A Fauxbama
Posted 03/13/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Making the Band
The long national nightmare is over: Menudo, Spanish-speaking eighties boy band, is coming back. That means the producers need to round up a troupe of singing and dancing Latino teenagers, and this weekend the talent search came to New York City. Nearly 100 hopeful performers tried out at the Queens Center Mall Saturday, and Tim Murphy was there for Vulture, New York's new arts-and-culture blog, to learn what drives kids to be aspiring Ricky Martins. Find out at Vulture. They Want to Live La Vida Menudo [Vulture]
Posted 04/30/07 in Daily Intel : Vulture
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Introducing Vulture
There are innumerable places to find cultural coverage online, but there are very few, if we may be so bold, that do it right. This is why we're so proud this morning to welcome our newest bloggy brother in New York's brood: Vulture, your daily source for arts and entertainment news. Vulture soars both high and low; it's perhaps the only site offering critical analysis of the latest fake memoir, an MP3 of the hottest indie-rock single, breaking news when your favorite performance artist straps a dog to his head, and YouTube videos of Joey Lawrence break dancing all in one spot. And it's all presented with the magazine's trademark smart and informed perspective on all the city's cultural offerings. It's written by Melissa Maerz, a former editor at Spin, and Dan Kois, a former literary agent and a film executive, and they're waiting for you at nymag.com/vulture.
Posted 04/23/07 in Daily Intel : Announcements
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Seeing Red
Speaking of White Trash Nation, we'd like to direct your attention to two events coming to our area this weekend. First Larry the Cable Guy plays Radio City Music Hall tonight and tomorrow night. Then there are four monster-truck rallies at Nassau Coliseum from tonight through Sunday. Toss in that bullriding competition at Madison Square Garden last month, and all that Nascar-in-Midtown mishegoss at the end of last year, and you start to wonder: We are still a blue state, right? Earlier: Anna Nicole and 'New York': A No-Love-Lost Story
Posted 02/09/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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