Bikes + Art: First Annual Bike Parade In LIC, Queens
[Photo from NY TImes]
Love to ride your bicycle? like Queen?
Bikes aren’t just for delivery boys or messengers; nowadays a bike is chic and eco-friendly. Not only are you helping the environment by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions and using less fossil fuels, but you’re also getting a workout.
That doesn’t mean your bike has to look like everyone else’s. A bike can truly express the identity of the rider. If you don’t believe me check out the sweet rides featured in this slideshow in a previous issue of the online NYTimes Style section.
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It’s Good To See How The Other Half Lives…And Then Switch Back
So for the past two or so weeks reality has crashed my semi–glamorous life as a GOFG writer and party note taker with all the things reality is so so good at making really real. Stuff like rent, cellphone bills, utility payments, and bar tabs had caught up to me at a single point of debt and forced me to get a 9-5, or in my specific case more like an 8AM-10PM as a law exam proctor.
Admittedly its not like digging trenches for latrines or excavating the side of a mountain, but the psychic and mental drain of administering exams and sitting in a room or 2 for 11-13 hours a day with people who’ve spent at least the whole semester if not their entire lives preparing to ace a 2-4 hour exercise in organized torture AKA a law school exam is intense.
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Pay It Forward, NYC
Too often, urban centers get a bad rep for being relatively unfriendly and isolated. Granted, this is a blanket statement and oftentimes a terribly misleading stereotype, but there are also too many who believe that city-life is an insular form of existence and lacking of community and good-naturedness. An experience I had the other day is certainly note-worthy. As feel good stories seem to be far and few in between this day and age, I find this to be invigorating as well as comforting for humanity.
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The Alternative Mother’s Day Survival Guide
You know those slightly grating “36 Hours In Sheboygan” pieces that run regularly in the Times? They usually have the journalist, who moonlights as a boating enthusiast, stake out some quaint corner of the country for two days while reporting back on the rigors of his winery tasting schedule. You can almost hear the glee seeping out from his blackberry-and-buckwheat-pancake-stuffed mouth. In that spirit, I give you the alternative Mother’s Day guide to “36 Hours In The Depths of Maternal Guilt.” No passport necessary:
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James Galanos Makes A Rare Visit To FIT
Go HERE for more photos from this event by Queen Samantha.
Our Photogs are doing some write ups, and now our writers are becoming photogs:
Museums in NYC Have Nothing on FIT… at least, not after last Wednesday night’s soirée. To celebrate the donation of 18 James Galanos pieces to the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Museum by Douglas E. Simms, James Galanos himself made a rare appearance in New York last night at FIT’s John E. Reeves Great Hall. Galanos, aged but dapper, smiled as models strutted around the perimeter of the Great Hall in his 18 designs, each garment dating back to the 1960’s. Prior to the show, Kelly Cutrone of People’s Revolution could be seen around the Hall along with staff, all identifiable by virtue of their high frequency and black ensembles and all scrambling to ensure perfection. Rest assured, this was a more relaxed show for Cutrone – hardly the 5-show circus that she is used to orchestrating – and she and her staff were entirely friendly.
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Town Topics
So we all know the city has its share of critters (most recent evidence: closure of Veneiro’s for mouse droppings in the chocolate; same rat I see every day at the 59th Street subway station on the 4 track.) And today the tabs are talking about not only the mysterious bee hive that was swarming around a newspaper box at East 75th and 2nd Avenue, but also the bedbugs in subway stations. A “city bedbug expert” says there are bedbugs at the Union Square Station.
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Nobody Loves Redbelt
I took this photo at the risk of being taken out of the theater for being a potential pirate (as if the peg leg wasn’t a dead giveaway) so that I could emphasize exactly what I saw in the theater: almost nothing. Granted, I was treated to a few other prospective viewers out there, but there was a total of a dozen people there to see it at the most. And you know what? Redbelt was actually so different from the genres martial arts movies embrace that it was good because of it.
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The Grand Opening Of The Stoli Hotel
[What is Chace Crawford showing Jason Lewis to do??]
Go HERE for more photos from this event by Antwan Duncan
Note from GofG: Not to be outdone by Etta, our charismatic Antwan reports on last night’s Stoli Hotel Grand Opening Party….
“Upon arriving to the “Stoli Hotel” i was greeted by a sea of hipsters, scenesters, and people oddly dressed in business attire, all eager to get into this well publicized party. After a little confusion and the upsetting news that I would not be allowed to shoot photos inside, I went into the “hotel” anyway and helped myself to a drink and hors d’oeuvre. I strategically placed myself in the path of the servers to make sure i got my fill of the edible SWAG. haha. I’m a nerd. yes.”
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Lydia Hearst On Top
[Photo via Lesser Known, Better Connected; via Ellegirl]
Who better to get style tips for your prom from than Heatherette. Together with Lydia Hearst (who, just last night won the Supermodel of the year award at the Michael Awards).
It’s not the first time (or the last) that these two have combined forces, Lydia has been a model for Heatherette for numerous shows. She must love to play dress up as much as me, though I’m not sure a senior at my highschool could have pulled off some of these creations from the Heatherette line…
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Gawker’s Abuse Of The Exclamation Point!
Have you noticed how many times writer’s at Gawker use exclamation points?! No?! Well, Nick Denton needs to really reign those guys in! On Sunday I counted 33 on the frontpage! Today it is a little better with 20! Nevertheless, it is starting to read like UsWeekly or Teen People!
I suppose the writers are trying to be clever, but clever it’s not! It becomes incredibly predictable when for the thousandth time you read a normal sentence and the writer has slapped a “!” on the end of it!
Some examples of this “abuse” today if you will:
Well now there’s a scandal about it!
So it looks like the market is right for handbooks right now!
Forks for everyone!
TV Guide, one of America’s biggest magazines, was sold a few days ago. Now it’s for sale again!
By doing things like reviewing YouTube videos!
There are Bedbugs In The Subway! Panic!
I might have to start keeping a log and chart this out. Could be an interesting study on writing techniques, or lack thereof.
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Part Two With Steve Lewis
Go HERE to hear what I had to say about expanding on Anonymity; Snark; The Office (the real one not the show, which is another love of mine); The Hamptons; & The Birth of the Blog.
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Socialista Hasn’t Seen This Much Excitement Since Its Hepatitis Scare
Cool photo huh? We haven’t seen this much physical activity outside of Socialista since they first opened and Mary Kate showed up with her entourage. We told you yesterday about the Chamber Dance Project’s party at Armin’s baby, but we didn’t show you what that entailed. Click below for pictures, and trust me, you have got to see the way that housewife’s Alex McCord can BEND. It’s actually really quite amazing!
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