Get out the throwing wine: ELLE.com is celebrating the best (and worst) of reality TV this week. Watch any reality TV show and you’ll notice each cast member has a schtick. A specific trope or “character” she plays that ensures her space on the show (and the best seat on the reunion show couch) in…
Another week, another cultural appropriation controversy. Or so it’s beginning to seem when it comes to fashion and its faux pas. This time around the lightning rod is Kim Kardashian West’s latest venture, announced on Tuesday: a line of “solutionwear,” itself a creative take on the more typical “shapewear,” which used to be called girdles,…
Cap-Toe Ballerinas Chanel chanel.com $750.00 “I’m in love with the Chanel CC cap-toe flats — they’re the comfiest shoes and that’s coming from a New Yorker who walks everywhere. Even when wearing them with jeans and a tee, you can look sophisticated, chic, and have no blisters by the end of the day. You can…
“Can I try it on?” I asked in excited anticipation. I was around eight years old. It was my first trip to Wilsons Leather in the mall. Moments before, the clerk had disappeared into the back before reemerging with a black Victorian-style leather jacket wrapped in a clear plastic bag with a long layaway ticket…
I am a single woman who bought a house next to a small apartment building. The owner of the building visits several times a week. Every time he comes, he knocks on my door to chat or request needless access to my yard (to cut tree limbs that could easily be cut from his side,…
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Would you pay $285 for a skimpy blue bikini with multicolored elastic threaded through multicolored crochet trim? How about $176? Or better yet, $38? These are the options available to crochet-bikini lovers now that Target has jumped into one of the messiest swimsuit tales ever to unravel. The big-box retailer this spring began to offer…
Who says there isn’t still some bohemia left in the East Village? Club Cumming, a cabaret bar operated by Alan Cumming, the actor, occupies a space on East Sixth Street that has been a gay dive bar, under different names, for about three decades. In its incarnation as Wonderbar during the 1990s, a flimsy wall…
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher The form at the animal shelter asked Bob Morris a simple question: “Why do you want to get a dog?” Although the answer could have been simple, Mr. Morris was unsure. Was his newfound desire for…
Days before he was found dead in the East River this week, Desmond Amofah, a popular YouTube personality known as Etika whose gaming videos attracted thousands of fans, recorded an eight-minute video that worried, rather than amused, his followers. In the video, which has since been removed by YouTube but was copied and posted in…