This most interesting list of songs Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim wishes he wrote himself (at least in part), originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 2000 and was a fascinating sidebar to…
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“After the Glitter Fades”: Remembering Laurel Canyon Vintage in Words and Images
The shop was located at 63 Thompson Street in New York’s Soho neighborhood where Elisa had operated a different vintage boutique called Chelsea Girl for twenty years. In 2012 she expanded that shop and moved around the corner. This allowed me to take the Laurel Canyon concept and move it from my mental queue to prime real estate directly across from the Thompson Hotel. In a fever of enthusiasm, I set about transforming a hundred-year-old storefront in what was once a part of New York’s Little Italy into a California Craftsman fantasy on Lookout Mountain Road circa 1972.
Guest Columnist Elisa Casas on Halston
Halston (few know his first name, Roy, or his last name, Frowick) was one of the most influential designers of all-time. A charismatic, over-the-top personality, master of promotion, and flamboyant spender who lived life…
10 Forgotten Stars of The Hollywood Walk of Fame, Vol. 2
“For every cinema legend there are so many dozens whose once brilliant place in Hollywood’s fickle firmament has dulled or completely disappeared.”
What do Angela Lansbury, Amanda Lepore, John Waters, Snoop Dogg, and Liza Minnelli Have in Common?
Answer: The Moscot “Terry” I have been buying my frames at the venerable Moscot (formerly “Sol Moscot”) since way before the brand was hip. In fact, when I started shopping there in…
Behind the Scenes at MGM’s 1974 Premiere of That’s Entertainment
Ten years before the home video explosion of the 1980s and decades before TCM and YouTube brought the full measure of film history into our homes, MGM studios mined their rich archive to create…
Joni Mitchell’s House is a Very, Very, Very, Fine House
During my sit down interview on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, I shared my memories of meeting Elisa Casas in 1983. We lived across the hallway from each other at N.Y.U.’s Weinstein…
Dolly Parton’s Unbelievable 1960s Beehive!
You will also enjoy: 12 Holiday Songs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard, Day Four: Dolly Parton’s, “Hard Candy Christmas”…
Snapped by Songwriter Claude Kelly at the New Music Seminar
Now it’s an instagram effect. Back then we just called it a bad photography! STYLE. Met David Munk today. Crazy sleeve tattoo. Crazy clothing combo and a murse. Had to snap a pic.…
What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and Three Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with Eyeliner and Crimped Hair, Part Two
To read the first part of this series: What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and Three Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with…
What Not To Wear When Going To Prison: or, How One Bad Decision and 3 Loose Pills Sent Me To The Slammer For Three Days with Eyeliner and Crimped Hair, Part One
The residual trauma of my incarceration and its subsequent shame-based cover-up has, I believe, equipped me uniquely to advise my gay brothers on how to prepare for a visit to prison with a particular emphasis on what not to wear when one is, as the Mob Wives say, “going away.”
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