| POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK by Polly Guerin November 17, 2008 NEW YORK SIGHTINGS: THE SPIRIT OF THE HOLIDAYS It's hard to believe how the year is flying by but the spirit of the holidays gives us cause to think of Thanksgiving and the Christmas. Instead of focusing on the economy there is so much to be grateful for. Perhaps we can begin to by expressing our thankfulness. Here's the scoop!!! >more November 10, 2008 NEW YORK HOLIDAYS: A POTPOURRI GIFT With visions of the holidays dancing in our heads, Dickie de Root, the culture sleuth, is on the town unearthing a potpourri of events, FREE for the viewing, that makes gift giving the true spirit of Christmas. From Rockefeller's Tree, and L&T's Christmas windows to Murakami'w wrap, "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas," only in New York my friends. Here's the scoop!!! >more November 3, 2008 ART 'N EATS: NEW YORK's A CULTURAL BANQUET Listen sister, it's a banquet out there and Ruben DeFoe, art critique extraordinare ought to know. He loves to dine and see the show from uptown's Jewish Museum to the MET and MOMA too. So what's a guy supposed to do but eat his way through New York's cultural playground. Here's the Scoop!!! >more October 27, 2008 DIVA DIVINE……NEW YORK HITS THE HIGH NOTES!!! Tra La, Tra La!!! "Diva Divine" hits the high notes on an operatic scale and song cycle. From the Gari competition and Opera for Humanity to St. George's Choral Society's program it's a musical feast, your pleasure to increase. Yaddo at NYPL, too. Here's the scoop!!! >more October 20, 2008 ART, ART, ARTSY - New York's Cultural Animals Roar! Safaring through the canyons of New York's cultural trappings Jungle Jane and her Tarzan roared through town and slinked over to see NEWbello's Met, took in Wall Stories at NDM, saw Dr. Atomic, and met George Tooker all in one week of amazing hunting and digging up what's new on the event agenda. Here's the scoop! >more October 13, 2008 HAIL HO!!! THE GREAT WHITE FLEET IN NEW YORK Never was the city so natty and never was the city in such celebration as when the Great White Fleet anchored in New York this week. Put on your sailor suits and step aboard and discover a host of historical and cultural events both here and in nearby ports. Here's the scoop!!! >more October 6, 2008 IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, NEW YORK SINGS Willy Shakespeare knew a thing or two about music, "O! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound." Senses collide in the last concert of summer, opera at the movies, galleries and celebrations, where music, the elixir of life, steals the show and New York's rhythm town hits the high notes in venues both visual and sensual. Here's the scoop!!! >more Septemer 29, 2008 CULTURAL DOINGS: TIMOTHY HITS THE COLOR TRAIL Timothy high brow met up with Tilly the culture maven and off they did shuffle to paint the town Red. "My dearest dear," said he. "New York's awash in color cues. We'll get our color fix at the Bus Terminal, see Van Gogh' Starry Night, and get (In) formed by Color a la Carlos Cruz-Diez. Then Art Deco is another echo at NYPL. Shall we linger for awhile?" Tilly obliged with a smile. Here's the scoop!!! >more Septemer 22, 2008 TILLY THE INTELLECT TAKES A CULTURAL SAFARI We find her here, we find her there, Tilly the Intellect goes everywhere. From Nemirovsky in Battery Place to Dead Sea Scrolls 90s East, Tilly's betwixt and must decide summing up her cultural pride. Will it be visit to Sotheby's, Thomas Hope, the MAD Museum or Van Gogh? Read on, dear readers, I'll let you know. Here's the scoop!!! >more September 15, 2008 The Allure of Paris, A CULTURAL LOVE AFFAIR Oh La La!!! I hear it said, that Art Deco is not wholly dead, but skipping into town with Ruhlmann, Mallet-Sevens and even David Garrard Lowe. I say isn't that just too, too divine? I'd rather be high brow than not and see Paree right on the spot. >more September 8, 2008 Politics Forbear: TARTY TARTANS AND GOTHS COME TO TOWN What's all this talk about politics? Peace, Politicians! pray forbear, we've heard enough orations. My word, what about that new sensation? >more September 1, 2008 EXTRA EXTRA!!!! Fashion Shows Break Ground Anita Van Horn, Blush magazine's fashion editor extraordinaire, sits in Row One, at the Spring 2009 collections. "Why I declare!!!" It's Fashion Week in New York and there sits Banana the Bore mum as a cat. Her clothes come from Paree 'an she flaunts it with glee. >more August 25, 2008 DICKIE-POO SAYS "WEAR YER KILT" CELTIC GATHERINGS Dickie-Poo comes from Maine, yes, my dear 'tis his nickname. His dinner parties are superlative. Everyone is there, Prince, Poet, and the press (provided they have a kilt or evening dress) >more August 18, 2008 Banana The Bore: IN AND AROUND MANHATTAN!!! "Banana the Bore, got off her high horse, took a bus, went aboard from Soho to Noho and down to Little Lolita, did travel this way but preferred a two-seater. >more August 11, 2008 Banana The Bore: There's Culture in Store!!! "Banana the Bore, with her feet on the sofa, her frame on the floor; young poets sat cross-legged and gaped in a row at Empress of Chelsea, Princess of Soho. >more August 4, 2008 Lollapalooza Events in the City... Go For It!!! "What's all this talk about leisure?" Simple Sally pouted. "I'm Colonel-in-Chief of the Guides, on several committees, and frequently lecture with slides. So with this and that, and the garden you see, my life is as full as a woman's could be. " So Simple Simon took her in hand so she might understand, that nowadays with books and plays and all sorts of fun to raise, New York's a lollapalooza, "Forget about duties," he said. "Let's go for it and take in the town instead. >more July 28, 2008 DayTripping With Simple Simon/Simple Sally Simply Sally shimmed back and forth, her patience at its end. "I rather fancy a trip abroad. Yes, you see I'm terribly bored," she declared unaware that Simple Simon had a plan or two. So hand-in-hand, and oh, what weather, he took her off light as a feather, and hopped the Staten Island ferry to another port. Simple Sally went girlish and gay and all through the day she was soppy and silly, as any young filly, reveling in the sights of the town. Come join us she beckons, what a fine voyage she reckons. "It's divine," she did say, "To daytrip it away." >more July 21, 2008 ONE DAY TRIPS: SIMPLE SALLY VENTURES OUT OF TOWN Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair, along came Simple Sally and now they are a pair!!!" All day long o'er hill and dale they wander out of town. So where do people go? I adore Soho, but someone said that Stamford was nice, for I've visited it once or twice. Ah, youth should never pause from pleasure, fill your cup and trip beyond measure. So does it matter where we go? "Not in the least," says Sally with a dimple, my tastes are very simple. So take the train and away we go." >more SUMMER CULTURE: COUNTRY BUMPKINS COME TO TOWN Simple Sally hates the city, for she loves the open down, and perhaps it is a pity, she remains so much in town. Little think that she is pining for the heather or the hay. Nay, her tastes are simple, instead she stays and roisters in her shy and reluctant way, painting the town with revel in museums and outdoor concerts sitting on the ground. >more June 23, 2008 SEISMIC SHIFTS IN FASHION SPENDING What do ladies talk about when ladies leave the room? The talk of course, is more refined and fashion isn't left behind. The hose and hat and scarf and sleeve, the price of silk and sable---this type of thing engrosses Eve, but if you please, more than that today they dish and spat, the price of this and that, no doubt. But still the seismic shifts in spending is their undoing, for now the rising cost of things, politics, trade and education, Do You Believe, is all that they can talk about. So read on my fashionistas, it's not a laughing matter. >more June 16, 2008 CULTURAL ADVENTURES/ EVEN BY WHEELCHAIR Miss Busy's my name, and I make it my place to collect and proclaim what's going about. From party to party I buzz like the bee, and while I'm reporting it's plain to see from the dates and the places where you ought to be. >more May 27, 2008 NEW YORK, NEW YORK: IT'S A WONDERFUL TOWN >more April 28, 2008 ARTFUL VENTURES: ILLUMINATI SECRETS Some girls I know would rather they were beautiful than clever, but beauty's brief, I always say, while wisdom lasts forever. That's the reason I respeck those who love me for my intelleck and not because I'm a pretty painting on a museum wall or an exhibition they install. Why my dear, that is why I'm so glad they love me for my brain. It's much more satisfact'ry, I should say, so I will carry on in an intellectual way and join the Illuminati in this artful way. (A.P.Herbert) >more 4/21/08 GET GROOVIE…GO GREEN!!! The three "Rs" to a successful Earth Day is Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. Please don't abuse Mother Earth. Save our Planet. Green Savvy people help to curtail global warming and climate changes. Find the nearest recycling center on earth911.org. Get in the groove, make positive moves, go for barter, thrift shop bargains, and green products. Got stuff? >more April 14, 2008 The Glitterati Lions…Were You There? All the lions stood a-roaring and you could not see the flooring for the literary men; novelists discussed together metaphysics and the weather, claret, sandwiches, and sin, while the painters and musicians shyly mentioned their ambitions and the women drank it in. Then said Mr. Y politely to jolt the literary zoo, "Have you heard the works of Horse?" " Everybody knew they knew, "Yes, of course," said everybody. Did he paint, compose or write? Why is he not here tonight? >more April 7, 2008 'SPRING AWAKENING'…MUSIC IN THE AIR Spring awakens our senses to a glorious unfolding of poetry and music, and choruses throughout the city rise to the occasion and fill the air with glorious song. What could more delightful to greet this "jeune saison" (young season) than the celebrated French composer, Claude Debussy's charming piece, "Salut Printemps" (greetings tospring). >more March 31, 2008 LISTEN BROTHER!!! ART BONANZA HONORING WOMEN!!!! "The history of women and art is the story of amazing women's accomplishments" says Molly Murphy MacGregor, who spearheaded the National Women's History Project, (NWHP) the organization that put Women's History Month during March on our nation's calendar. >more March 24, 2008 POWER DRESSING: STYLE LIKE A PRO Fashion is so fickle, what's a gal to Do? A. P. Herbert, satirist knows a thing or two, "I never cared for Fashion, I find a trifle tame, my fellow-creatures' passion for looking all the same. Let those who please, be like two peas, but it pleases me to look and be as different as I can." Well my dears here's a trick or two to become so individually You. >more March 17, 2008 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES: MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! What's so special about the Big Apple? My dear, I fear you mustn't be on the wavelength of the glitterati. How could you ask such a banal question when it's obvious that the cognoscenti know where to go. Why not invest in yourself and rev up your groove just to prove that you have the smarts to make the social scene. Here a re a few tips about goings on around the town in which you live. >more March 10, 2008 The Talent Frontline/ Celebs Among Us!!! Think no more of it darling, be a celeb yourself. You too can hob nob and romp with the café society jet set. From cabaret to concert hall and even the movies the cast of celebs among us tips the scale of star-studded events in the Big Apple that should be on your "MUST SEE" list. >more March 3, 2008 Oh Listen Sister: Pow!!! Wow!!! "Women in the Arts" March rolls in like a lioness in the Big Apple with a month long "Women in the Arts" celebration in tandem with National Women's History Month. Events heat up the action with museums, arts organizations and galleries focusing on the achievements of women in the arts over the past two centuries. >more February 24, 2008 Hey There!!! Now's Your Chance, It's Leap Year... There's many a gal waiting for a proposal, but wait no more my darlin' because with one more extra day on February 29th, to be sure, this is the quintessential Leap Year!!! Legend says that during Leap Year gals have the advantage. So now's your chance to strike up a proposal and ask the dream man of your life, "to be your wife," oops I meant "your mate," and it's perfectly okay to do so. So why wait it out any longer. Go for it!!! >more February 18, 2008 Culture Vultures: Take New York On the Cheap What New York on the Cheap??? That's right art exhibits, museums, poetry and book signings, concerts, recitals, lectures and all kinds of cultural events are FREE for the taking or you pay a minimum charge that won't break your budget. I'm not ancient but I remember the Metropolitan Museum of Art when it was free and there was hardly anyone there, but today it’s a madhouse as crowds swarm in droves to this Mecca of culture. The museum open Tues-Sun was closed to the public every Monday for 30 years, but now the museum is open on "Met Holiday Mondays" starting with President's Day, February 18th and again on May 26th Memorial Day. If you can't afford the steep admission fee, remember it is 'Suggested Admission,' so give what you can afford, even one dollar and you'll get in.>more February 11, 2008 Doggone It!!! New York City's on a Leash That's right!!! New York City has gone to the dogs in more ways than one. There's dog hotels, dog boutiques, dog perambulators, doggie day care, dog salons, dog psychologists and even dog whispers. Doggone it almost every young gal in town is toting a little dog around in a Gucci- Pucci bag and some dogs are so tiny, my gosh you'd need a magnifying glass to see them. >more Published: February 04, 2008 WHITE SAILS IN BRYANT PARK LAUNCH FALL '08 What care I for fashion shows, but when I see those white tents like giant sails, hunkered down and moored in Bryant Park I know that the fashion show ritual has begun and by February lst the city is transformed and so is the fashion world. Everyone who is anyone in fashion is here in the Big Apple to claim their seats in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week event, which unveils the fall ready-to-wear collections. Retail executives and celebs in the front row, buyers and invited guests cram in to get a glimpse of what the designers are touting as the new trend, the new color or the new silhouette. The fashion show extravaganza also takes place in other locations and ends February 8th, setting sail it returns with the spring ready-to-wear collections in October. >more January 29, 2008 Aspects of Luxe---Haughty Ha Ha, Here's to Haute Couture! Haute defined denotes the elevated upper crust of society, so it is no wonder that nowadays there are haute people living in haute skyscrapers, walking haute dogs, housing haute cats, eating haute cuisine and dining in tony haute restaurants and flying in haute airplanes. BUT, there is nothing more sumptuous in this exalted state than the Haute Couture collections, which climaxed in Paris with the final curtain call for designer, Valentino, who paraded exquisite sorbet colored suits and his fabulous signature Red gowns on the Paris runway. >more January 21, 2008 The New Buzz Words: Art and Fashion/Fashion and Art Art is "In" and celebs are going out!!! As Artwork and artistry have become the new international luxury pursuit, both of designers and fashionistas embraced the new trend in the Spring 2008 collections.Fun party dresses took inspiration from Versailles in Anna Sui's collection. Think cabbage roses, swirls of bouquets, wallpaper floral prints as if plucked Marie Antoinette's boudoir for Sui's new punkish spin. >more |
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