Windy City chefs, this is your wake-up call. The famed Michelin Guide to the world’s best restaurants has announced plans to publish a 2011 Chicago edition come November, a big boost to the underrated culinary scene in the city that’s … Read More
Noah Lemaich, Nonplussed. Meet the Thompson LES‘s wily go-to guy. Go ahead: Ask him to score tickets to “Cats” for you. His claws will stay in…at the inn, at least. Now ‘snap’ to it! Room 100: What is the most … Read More
Chuck Close and Julian Schnabel put their enduring images to page. It’s a cracking good summer for art books, with two new monographs devoted to the great Chuck Close and a third to an overlooked facet of larger-than-lifer Julian Schnabel’s … Read More
THE MINI BAR See if you can name the bar and city where this bathroom shrine to the golden days of Martini & Rossi (say yes), men’s gold chains, Burt Bacharach AND Burt Reynolds, as well as Johnny Carson shilling … Read More
Any Old Iron rocks with Cool Brittania. Newish store alert!: The wonderfully-named Any Old Iron, on Orchard Street, at Stanton, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. If you want to look like a disheveled gentleman of the manor who … Read More
These are hairy times in Hollywood (and in the more urbane jungles) with beards on leading men continuing to sprout like Chiaa Pets. Winter is coming. Following the freaks-it’s warmer that way. Nuzzle up. When Brad Pitt was spotted sporting … Read More
