So deliberately engineered and well-constructed is the Saint Laurent Western-Stitched Boot that trying it on was like slipping my foot into the muscular gullet of a very…
tell me, DRC
was that you at the mall in Paramus last week, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie? strolling by the Yo! Sushi, a man among men
where are you going, where have you been
Monday
man(hood) on wire
A new exhibit on shoes and masculinity has swagger but little substance. In 1985 I bought my first pair of blue gray suede Puma…
Picasso Sculpture: a capsule review
“In his work, Picasso took a little from here, a little from there,” said the lady next to me at the MoMA cafe after the…
day trip
Highway 35 in Laurence Harbor, NJ, forty minutes south of Manhattan, is a plain and purposeful road, delivering travelers to an undecorated stretch of town in which basic needs are efficiently…
the last hoedown
Sharing the blame for the loss of a neighborhood icon. On a recent Monday in July, most restaurants in the Meatpacking District shuttered windows and…
hobo’s lullaby: Harry Partch at Lincoln Center Festival
Maverick composer Harry Partch created his own 43-tone scale, designed and constructed two dozen of his own instruments, and wrote compositions for them reflecting his belief…
it depends, after all
Bill Galloway, a pharmacist from Rutherford, N.J., discovered recently that he is one of the last surviving links to a poem that has confounded and…