The Market Hotel, a gritty music club in Brooklyn that shakes every time the subway rumbles overhead, gets its share of rowdy performances. But even its hardened patrons were not prepared for the spectacle of Christeene, a self-described “drag terrorist” who held an album release party on a recent Wednesday night. As discordant jazz notes…
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“The Doubleday Cookbook,” published in 1975, was the new kid on the block, a 1,300-page, four-pound doorstop even more expansive than “Joy,” with more than 4,000 recipes, from abalone stew to zucchini and lamb casserole, with stopovers in sautéed calves’ brains, homemade wontons and butterscotch brownies. It went on to win many awards and sell…
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Julian Wasser, the artful and rakish photojournalist who chronicled the celebrity culture of Los Angeles that began percolating in the 1960s — a heady, sexy and often combustible brew of new Hollywood, art and rock ’n’ roll — as well as the city’s darker moments, creating some of the most indelible images of that era,…
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Julian Wasser, the artful and rakish photojournalist who chronicled the celebrity culture of Los Angeles that began percolating in the 1960s — a heady, sexy and often combustible brew of new Hollywood, art and rock ’n’ roll — as well as the city’s darker moments, creating some of the most indelible images of that era,…
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LaQuan Smith knows how to throw a party; there’s no doubt about that. When you factor in the mirror walls and chic Art Deco interior of the Rainbow Room, you’ve got one heck of a swanky soirée—and this level of sophistication is evident in the designer’s fall/winter 2023 collection, too. Don Ashby The show kicked…
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The fashion and entertainment industries, which have long been intertwined, converged even further on Tuesday when Louis Vuitton named Pharrell Williams, the American rapper and producer, as its new creative director for men’s wear. The French luxury brand announced on Instagram that it had hired Mr. Williams about 16 months after the sudden death of…
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There’s a mild, wheaty aroma wafting from the host stand at the Midtown Manhattan pasta restaurant Jupiter. It’s not from the pasta. An herbaceous, vegetal smell fills the bathrooms at Horses, a high-end bistro in Los Angeles. It’s not from vegetables. And that intense, buttery scent suffusing the journalist Emma Specter’s apartment in Austin, Texas?…
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Excitement had been growing in the theater as 7 p.m. approached. Fake dollar bills with the words “In Abs We Trust” on one side and a photo of a man’s bare chest on the other were scattered across tables, perfect for throwing. By the time the “Warner Bros.” logo flashed across the screen, people were…
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King isn’t a perfect restaurant, but it is a perfect example of a type of restaurant that many New Yorkers dream about. It’s that small, charming spot downtown where the details have all been thought about, though not so much that it becomes uncomfortable, and the menu is a likable quilt of flavors from Tuscany,…
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NEW ORLEANS — The first dish served at Dakar NOLA is called Last Meal. It’s a soup of black-eyed peas, crispy rice and Louisiana blue crab, with robust spicing that recalls this city’s famous gumbos. Chances are you’ll still be thinking about it days later. Last Meal is that delicious — and even more unsettling.…
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