W hile New Yorkers suffered minor heart attacks on Friday, as banking stocks plunged to levels not seen since 1997 around 2pm - before turning around and climbing back up, LA, so friends told me, was basking in sunlight – and its own glory.
In fact even as he watched Bank of America’s share-price nosedive […]

New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, “the show must go on.” “We need a little pick-me-up,” she emailed me, “and I actually think the upcoming week should be a way to move forward. That doesn’t mean we […]

T oday in a courtroom in South Carolina, Esther Elizabeth Reed’s fantasies finally ended. The 30-year-old brunette, who has spent eight of the past ten years on the run, often entering Ivy League schools under adopted fake identities, and evading cops with an extraordinary web of deception faces up to over four years in prison.
For […]

Another day, another one bites the dust. Friends everywhere are losing their jobs.
They’re bright. The New York Times described the growing ranks of the city’s unemployed as the new chic club in town. In part, this is because the people who are losing their jobs are the best and ergo the most expensive talent around. […]