Bruce Weber & David Bailey: The Private Library for Nokia

Grand Guy Bruce Weber brought fash’ legend David Bailey about this afternoon, the hottest day of the year, to take pictures around the house with not-yet-on- the-market very yellow Nokia cell phone/cameras.  They’re shooting the commercial that will premiere this fall.  We’ve Vreeland in common and had a lively reminiscence.  Needless to say, it was […]

Saturday. July 13. 12:30 p.m. The Burr-Hamilton Duo. Morris Jumel Mansion.

The Burr-Hamilton Duo Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 12:30 pm Kurt Thometz and Jimmy Napoli  will be representing Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in a dialog on their common interests in Thomas Jefferson, Federalism, Civil Rights, Women, Slander, Sedition and Treason, amongst other things.  Join us in a thrilling and fun-filled excavation of some Harlem […]

The Book Problem

The Book Problem Were the problem book people like us, it would soon go away. It is not our weaknesses, or our sentimentality, or our nostalgia. It’s As If’ we’ve become obsolete and we haven’t. By ‘we,’ I mean We the People of the Book: Jews, Christians, Islamic people and a lot of people who […]