New York back issues from December 2006:
A city without Wal-Mart.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 04, 2006; ... IT MAY BE WORTH discussing the demise of Wal-Mart ["The Bottom Line: Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers," by James J. Cramer, November 27], the supposed swallower of mom-and-pop shops everywhere, but while this is happening, small businesses throughout the Upper West Side are fast disappearing ...
His life is harder.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 04, 2006; ... I HAVEN'T STOPPED thinking about Jennifer Gonnerman's article "A Hard Earned Life" [November 6], and it keeps coming up in conversations with friends. We're all reminded that we're spoiled with our ...
Home is where the hip aren't.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 04, 2006; ... I'VE LIVED IN MANY New York neighborhoods over the past 30 years, downtown and up, and these past ten years, the Upper East Side ["The Death of (the Idea of) the Upper East Side," by Jay McInerney, November 20]. I believe most people choose where to live for reasons other than how hip the ...
Also, St. Vincent's.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 04, 2006; ... YOUR SECTION ON HIV/AIDS ["Doctors' Orders," November 20] seemed to imply that there are only two New York State Designated AIDS Centers. St. Vincent's Manhattan and St. Vincent's Midtown are both DACs--in fact, Midtown (when it was St. Clare's) ...
A meaty tradition.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 04, 2006; ... IN HIS BRILLIANT RANT against the fast-food industry, David Edelstein refers to workers "forced to work so quickly that the [cows'] poop pours out of the intestines over everything" ["Movies: Fast Food Nation," November 20]. But he left out the tradition of the meat industry: to hang ...
Corrections.(Correction notice)
Dec 04, 2006 ... In "Party Lines" (November 20), a photo of Marisa Acocella Marchetto was misidentified as Lauren Weisberger, and a photo of Cady Huffman was misidentified as Lindsay Doran. In "Doctors' Orders" (November 20), a profile of the Parkinson's-treatment program at New ...
It happens this week.(Intelligencer)
Dec 04, 2006 ... 11/27 Premiere of the first part of Tom Stoppard's eight-hour The Coast of Utopia. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 11/27 A Prairie Home Companion screens at the Walter Reade in tribute to Robert Altman. 11/28 Apple ...
Eliot Spitzer's comptrol issues: the horse race to (possibly) replace Hevesi.(Intelligencer)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... IF Eliot Spitzer decides to replace disgraced State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, picking a replacement presents its own complications. One of Spitzer's leading choices to replace Hevesi, insiders say, is his close friend, investment banker Bill Mulrow (whom Hevesi beat in the 2002 ...
Blood on the stage: Dylan union fight.(Intelligencer)(Bob Dylan' The Times They Are A-Changin')(American Guild of Musical Artists and Actors' Equity Association)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... IT WASN'T JUST audiences and critics who didn't know what to make of Twyla Tharp's Bob Dylan musical The Times They Are A-Changin'. The American Guild of Musical Artists (which reps opera singers and ballet dancers) and Actors' Equity had been fighting about which would negotiate for--and ...
Andy's Montauk estate finally bought: the whole East End's for sale!(Intelligencer)(Andy Warhol)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... BIG NEWS in Montauk: It looks like Eothen, Andy Warhol's former getaway, has finally snagged a buyer after five years. Sources say it's been sold to J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler (though he may have partners in the deal). Its windswept, sun-bleached houses (on 5.6 acres that front 600 feet of ...
Truffle kerfuffle at border: busted by suspicious beagle.(truffle imports)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... Tony May, owner of Midtown's haute Italian wallet-buster San Domenico, almost had his annual White Truffle Gala and Auction confiscated by the Feds. The white truffle (scientific name: Tuber magnatum) inspires a certain madness ($200 baked potato with truffles at The Four Seasons!) during ...
'Observer' kid to shrink the pink? Cheaper, girlier as a tabloid.(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... THE GOSSIPY broadsheet the New York Observer was always known as a sort of upmarket tabloid--but it might start looking like one, too. New owner Jared Kushner, 25, confirms that it's being redesigned. "We're considering tabloid, and we're considering Berliner [a format used by Le Monde and ...
Cold comfort.(IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK)
Dec 04, 2006; ... WITH THE MERCURY plummeting, the city bundled up for a frosty week. Harlem congressman Charles Rangel felt a military draft coming on, but fellow Democrats warned him that such talk was skating on thin ice. Hillary Clinton was revealed to have shoveled $37,500 in cold hard cash to her pal ...
Big pimpin' grandmas: the Nets audition a troupe of old folks to grind to hip-hop during halftime (it's not their favorite music).(Intelligencer)
Dec 04, 2006; ... PETRA POPE NOTICED something funny during last season's Nets halftime dance contests: "Whenever a senior citizen starts doing hip-hop moves, the crowd goes nuts." So Pope, the team's director of entertainment, decided to assemble a senior dance team; tryouts were last week. While Jay-Z's ...
Still acting up: twenty years running the "gay Elks Lodge.".(Richard Burns)(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center)(Interview)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006 ... IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT and not running for office, there probably hasn't been much reason for you to visit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on West 13th Street--what City Council Speaker Christine Quinn calls "a combination gay Elks Lodge-visitors ...
Kazakh couture: very nice; The recently maligned country struts its stuff at a fashion show in Manhattan. Furry hats are in!(Intelligencer)
Dec 04, 2006; ... WAS BORAT the best thing to ever happen to Kazakhstan? At the Palace Hotel two weeks ago, a crowd of Kazakh expats and diplomats gathered to celebrate their independence day. There was also a fashion show where the talk was all about taking the Cultural Learnings of America for Make ...
Sketchy Cafe society: the new faces of West Village quasi fame.(Intelligencer)
Dec 04, 2006; ... THAT NEW CROP OF West Village restaurants is more clubby than cutthroat. Soon there will be a Keith McNally place, along with Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn and Cafe Cluny, which is co-owned by Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg vets Lynn Wagenknecht, Judi Wong, and Steven Abramowitz. In its front ...
Party lines.(Intelligencer)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... WORLD PREMIERE OF DEJA VU THE ZIEGFELD AND ROSELAND BALLROOM. NOVEMBER 20. Did you prepare for this movie by watching 'Groundhog Day'? "I'm having a deja vu moment right now! How did you know that? How did you know that I watched Groundhog Day 57 times? ...
The Lou Dobbs factor: fox is shrinking, while CNN has found a new way to lure viewers--by Foxifying itself. And Dobbs's America won't be ignored.(THE IMPERIAL CITY)
Dec 04, 2006; ... WE ALL KNOW THAT THE simultaneous rise of Fox News and Bush-Cheney-Rove Republicanism was of a synergistic piece, not just the result of the same Zeitgeist weather patterns but each an enabler of the other. And now that the Republican Party has lost both houses of Congress, we can see with ...
Can't get no satisfaction in a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith.
Dec 04, 2006; ... PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM burnout tend to describe the sensation in metaphors of emptiness--they're a dry teapot over a high flame, a drained battery that can no longer hold its charge. Thirteen years, three books, and dozens of papers into his profession, Barry Farber, a professor at ...
The once and future Kissinger: as another failed war threatens to tarnish his legacy, Henry Kissinger attempts to clarify his record--by evading, skirting, stretching, hedging, and stonewalling like the diplomatic master he is.
Dec 04, 2006; ... THE ELEVATOR DOORS OPEN onto Henry Kissinger's offices to reveal a bulletproof bank teller's window. The carpets are worn, the walls in need of fresh paint, the wing chairs stained by the hands of a thousand waiting dignitaries. In a corner sits a large planter holding the dried stumps of ...
Bonfire of the puggle: two forensic pathologists, an ex-con, and the hunt for one irresistible designer dog.
Dec 04, 2006; ... I. US I LIVE THE SORT OF LIFE I could pretty much only have in New York City. I'm a senior forensic pathologist in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and, in my spare time, I write professionally about food, review video games, and collect Victorian taxidermy. Cricket's ...
Brooks Pond Metro Carrier Cover.(THE BEST BET)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006 ... The highly anticipated bundle of joy has arrived, and you've never been more exhausted. For those calming walks around the block, get Brooks Pond's Metro Carrier Cover, a cozy Thinsulate and suede wrap ($150 at Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave., at 61st St.; 212-826-8900) ....
Baby yourself: the new kid has turned your life upside down. To reclaim some mental health, put these ideas to use.(BEST BETS)
Dec 04, 2006; ... Make Someone Else Cook The chefs of Dish's Dishes will shop for groceries, plan menus, and create meals for you to eat all week ($250 plus cost of ingredients; 917-439-1447). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Call Housekeeping The Green Cleaning service ...
Fleet of foot: can one store satiate the city's shoe appetite?(SHOPAHOLIC)
Dec 04, 2006; ... IT'S BIGGER than Capitale! If you have not yet heard of Te Casan, and if you like shoes, you soon will: It's a 5,500-square-foot, chandelier-hung, glass-staircased Soho store filled with nothing but women's shoes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But what is this brand? The ...
Sales & bargains: November 29-December 5.(STOREFRONT)
Dec 04, 2006; ... If Balenciaga is ordinarily beyond your budget, make sure to hit the 40 percent-off sale; leather riding boots were $1,345 but are now $799. 542 W. 22nd St., nr. Eleventh Ave. (212-206-0872); A.E., M.C., V.; 11/30-12/15 (Mon.-Sat. 11-7; Sun. noon-5). At the Frette sale, decadent ...
Pomellato.(OPENINGS)(Brief article)
Dec 04, 2006; ... More affordable and less sparkly than neighboring jewelers Graff and Chopard, Pomellato (741 Madison Ave., nr. 64th St.; 212-879-2118) sells cocktail rings in vivid colors ($2,155 to $3,120), large semiprecious-stone drop earrings ($6,085 to $6,970) and fashionable pieces like the horn and ...
Jaki Batton.(ASK A SHOP CLERK)(Interview)
Dec 04, 2006; ... Jaki Batton Burton Soho 106 Spring St., nr. Mercer St. 212-966-8070 How long have you been snowboarding? Since I was 13. I used to be on the Junior National Snowboard Team. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What are your favorite resorts? I ...
The look book.(Tasha Gibson)(Interview)
Dec 04, 2006; ... DW and Tasha Gibson, Writer and Chef What are you up to today? TASHA: I'm in the restaurant business, so we have our weekend in the middle of the week--we get our coffee, get our papers, and hang out. Once in a while, I crave the normalcy of lines for brunch. DW: I'm a writer, ...
The Hudson's left coast: good food, lovely drives, the requisite antiquing--and a lot more mellow than Vermont or the Berkshires.(TRAVEL)(City overview)
Dec 04, 2006; ... THE RUSTICALLY beautiful western Hudson Valley (loosely defined as the section that runs along Rondout Creek) is one of the last perfectly pastoral settings within a short drive of the city that isn't bumper-to-bumper with city escapees every weekend. This largely agricultural area, with ...
Picholine nouveau: Terrance Brennan gives his venerable flagship a deft makeover.(FOOD)
Dec 04, 2006; ... AS ANY STYLE-CONSCIOUS grande dame can tell you, the successful full-body makeover is a most delicate thing. Major overhauls are similarly tricky in the restaurant world, especially when a great, or even semi-great, establishment begins drifting, after decades of bouquets and acclaim, into ...
The time traveler revisited: in a story published last year, we provided itineraries for how to make contemporary New York feel like the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Here, we set the time machine for further back--to the 30s, 40s, and 50s.(RETROSTYLE)(City overview)
Dec 04, 2006; ... A DAY IN THE 30s Art Deco, Edward Hopper, and the fine art of the cocktail. Wake mid-morning and turn on your Emerson radio ($250 at Waves; 212-273-9616) or listen to the era's swing and jazz on Radio Dismuke (live365.com/stations/dismuke). Start smoking Lucky ...
Bonus season's greetings: those end-of-year payouts make lovely down payments, and developers aren't shy about asking.(REAL ESTATE)
Dec 04, 2006; ... AS AD CAMPAIGNS GO, the one unveiled weeks ago by 200 Chambers Street, a 258-unit Tribeca building, is fairly modest. No pricey TV commercials, no radio airtime--just posters on phone kiosks in the financial district. But there's nothing low-key about its message. Pictured beneath a ...
The baronessa's dream: for many New York writers, Beatrice Monti's Tuscan retreat is paradise--so why would anyone leave early?(THE CULTURE PAGES)
Dec 04, 2006; ... 'IT MUST BE the mosquitoes!" All day long, the baronessa has been racking her mind, trying to figure out what went wrong. As she wanders the sprawling grounds of Santa Maddalena, her writers' retreat in Tuscany--past the rosebushes and the cook's quarters--she keeps asking ...
Ugly disemboweled Americans; What the horror-show Turistas has in common with Babel. Plus: remembering Robert Altman.(Movie review)
Dec 04, 2006; ... THE AWFUL, offal-ridden Turistas--textbook torture-porn--would be too disgusting to discuss were it not for its efficiency at exploiting the fear that haunts our post-Iraq American dreams, and that can be discerned in works as various as the Oscar-bait ensemble drama Babel and the cringe ...
So far, so good: The Coast of Utopia is a huge, eloquent piece of theater, gaudy with talent. And we're just into Part One.(THEATER)
Dec 04, 2006; ... COMING FROM ANY other playwright, the idea behind The Coast of Utopia would sound preposterous; from Tom Stoppard, it's practically routine. Having made the second law of thermodynamics heartbreaking (Arcadia) and turned logical positivism into farce (Jumpers), he now proposes to dramatize ...
The sex symbol who showers in the dark Bill Nighy makes great art in the territory between utter poise and utter collapse.
Dec 04, 2006; ... MEETING AN ACTOR whose work you love can be disillusioning, but lunch with Bill Nighy--he's on Broadway opposite Julianne Moore in David Hare's The Vertical Hour--is a treat, as well as a rare opportunity to explore the connection between performance and neurosis. No, I'm not calling him a ...
Thomas Pynchon vs. the world: Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn't mean Pynchon can't also be fun.(BOOKS)(Book review)
Dec 04, 2006; ... THERE IS A striking moment in Thomas Pynchon's enormous new novel that threatens to get lost, like many of the striking moments in his novels, in all the other moments: of overly wrought prose, of names so memorable that you can't remember them, and of quasi-historical accounts of science ...
The Spanish exposition: once again, the Guggenheim tries to cram an entire culture--this time Spain's--into one sweeping show. But, oh, those Goyas.(ART)
Dec 04, 2006; ... 'FROM EL GRECO to Picasso" is the latest art spectacle staged by the Guggenheim Museum. Like its predecessors, such as "Africa," "Brazil," "China," and "Russia," the exhibit is both bombastic and irresistible. It contributes little to art history but has a rumbly atmosphere of immense ...
The approval matrix: our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Dec 04, 2006 ... Jessye Norman throws a hissy fit on NPR's "Soundcheck." Well, she is a diva. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Christmas Tree Cold War between Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shameless blugging: the ceaseless plugging of ...
The week.
Dec 04, 2006; ... MOVIES NEW THIS WEEK [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ARCHITECT Matt Tauber's sincere yet stilted directorial debut chronicles the interaction between a rich architect (Anthony LaPaglia) and a local activist (Viola Davis) who represents the ...
Misinterpreted bible.(Crossword)
Dec 04, 2006; ... ACROSS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 Movie critic Roger 6 Uses a flour sieve 11 Gives the eye to 16 Ted Turner channel 19 River landing 20 Courtroom event 21 "There!," to Pierre 22 Fury ...
Burning out.( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... JENNIFER SENIOR'S cover article on burnout is extremely well written and insightful ["Can't Get No Satisfaction," December 4]. My friends and I are all talking about it. A year ago, I was a burned-out professional. All the vacations and job opportunities weren't replenishing the enthusiasm ...
Die partying.( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... ALL NEW YORK CITY NEEDS is an incontinent ex-murderer to revive its nightlife ["Party Boy in a Cage," by Jonathan Van Meter, November 27]. Your article seemed to gather pity for Michael Alig ....
Sex in conversation.( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... YOUR QUESTION "Does sex happen here?" to Richard Burns, on the twentieth anniversary of his tenure as director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center, borders on homophobic ["Intelligencer: Still Acting Up," by Tim Murphy, December 4]. ...
Lost in translation.( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... BILL NIGHY'S "two-fingered handshake" does not suggest that "there's only so far he can go in the direction of intimacy" ["The Sex Symbol Who Showers in the Dark," by David Edelstein, ...
Young people today.( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... I BELIEVE THE Village, too, lost its edge not long after Jay McInerney published Bright Lights, Big City in 1984 ["The Death of (the Idea of) the Upper East Side," by Jay McInerney, November 20]. For years, my friends who were denizens of the 10021 Zip Code took cabs downtown ...
It's a miracle.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... WHAT A CHANGE TO READ a complimentary article on Barry Manilow ["Pop: A Man Much Maligned," by Karen Schoemer, November 27]. So few musicians have the staying power of Manilow, and even fewer have been named "showman of our ...
Holy beauty!( )(Letter to the editor)
Dec 11, 2006; ... REGARDING ARIANNE COHEN'S article on the possible future of the First Baptist Church on West 79th Street [Intelligencer: Joachim's Temptation," November 27]: When I moved to the city two years ago, I spent two nights in a hotel near the church. After wandering around Central Park, I ...
It happens this week.(Intelligencer)
Dec 11, 2006 ... 12/4 Guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Woody Guthrie for sale at memorabilia auction at Christie's. 12/5 Finally, you won't have to leave the Port Authority to enjoy fine dining: Metro Marche's grand-opening. 12/7 High Fidelity opens on Broadway. ...
Sex and the city councilman: $300,000 settlement.(Intelligencer)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... REMEMBER THAT Allan Jennings-Gifford Miller sexual-harassment-censure saga that rocked the City Council a few elections ago? Well, it's payout time. The city is planning to avoid a trial and cut $150,000 checks to two of Jennings's former female staffers, Sandra Pope, 62, and Norma ...
A very stylish appendicitis: missing Schrager explained.(Ian Schrager)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... Ian Schrager has been checked into two far less festive establishments than those he's made his name on creating (the Hudson, the Delano, the Gramercy Park Hotel). The hotelier/real-estate developer had an attack of appendicitis, followed by several complications, which kept him in Beth ...
Unfit to read: 'Times' bans weeklies; Too tempting to steal from.(Times Daily)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... IT'S MIND CONTROL at the Times! John Sutter, publisher of Community Media newspapers, has long objected to the way the Times' Sunday "City" section draws from his papers (The Villager, Downtown Express). In 2003 he got Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz to write an expose on the ...
The coast of incarceration: nearly arrested in Russia.(photographing)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... THE CAST OF The Coast of Utopia learned a lesson about drinking and photographing while in Russia. A week before rehearsals began for Tom Stoppard's epic play, costars Brian O'Byrne, Martha Plimpton, Jason Butler Harner, and Josh Hamilton went to St. Petersburg for "research." Their last ...
Rudy's way would be to shun rev. Al: bloomie embraces and Randy Mastro rolls his eyes.(Randy Mastro, Rudy Giuliani)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... AT LEAST ONE person is ready to stand up and criticize Mike Bloomberg for the way he handled the Sean Bell shooting: Randy Mastro, deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani. Since the impending groom was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets, the mayor's team has worked hard to defuse the situation ...
When in rome.(current events)
Dec 11, 2006; ... FOR VII DAYS, all roads seemed to lead to Rome. Emperor George Bush suffered an Et tu? moment when Jordan's King Abdullah II and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki stuck a last-minute dagger in his plans for a triumphant triumvirate dinner. The Baker-Hamilton commission recommended ...
Unlocking the gridlock: New York has been trying to fix its traffic problems for decades. How those big ideas keep getting stuck behind slow-moving politicians.
Dec 11, 2006; ... IT'S TRAFFIC WEEK! And not because of holiday shoppers. In the eye of the storm between election cycles, city politicians have exactly one year to tackle one of the most pressing yet sensitive issues there is: congestion. "The gridlock on our streets has become a brake on the city's ...
Manhattan beach: a cheat sheet for the celebrity-studded, money-drunk, ever more decadent fifth annual Art Basel Miami Beach art fair.
Dec 11, 2006; ... BY THE END OF THE week, hundreds of private jets will head to Miami (150 from NetJets alone) as the world's wealthiest people, and the art dealers who serve them, descend for Art Basel Miami Beach and its--as of this year--thirteen satellite art fairs. The Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the ...
Mr. Settlement: Sharpton's "closer," Sanford Rubenstein, to rep the 50-bullet victims.(Al Sharpton)(Brief article)
Dec 11, 2006; ... LAST WEEK, as the Reverend Al Sharpton vowed to go "a-shopping for justice," at a press conference following the police shooting in Queens of unarmed bridegroom Sean Bell, Sanford Rubenstein was just out of the cameras' view. Rubenstein, together with Michael Hardy, Sharpton's general ...
Party lines.(Intelligencer)
Dec 11, 2006; ... IFP'S SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GOTHAM AWARDS PIER 60. NOVEMBER 29. The American Museum of Natural History is launching a sleepover program. Would you take your kids? "Do they give you nice beds? The floor in there is really hard. And it's big and drafty ....
Eliot versus the sloths: his predecessor didn't do him any favors. And the new governor will need all his wiles to defeat the two-headed monster currently ruling Albany.(Eliot Spitzer)
Dec 11, 2006; ... THIS ISN'T DAY ONE, when Eliot Spitzer is sworn in as governor and everything is supposed to change in Albany. This is day minus-34, and it's midtown Manhattan, inside the battered former headquarters of an ad agency. And technically, Spitzer is still the state's attorney general. But he's ...
His American dream: the Bloomberg-for-president scenario starts with the mayor's growing sense of himself as a man of destiny. Throw in the country's disgust with the two parties, add a half-a-billion bucks, and you've got yourself a race.(Michael Bloomberg)
Dec 11, 2006; ... ONE DAY LAST JULY, Al From received an unexpected call from Michael Steinhardt. From is the founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist outfit in Washington that helped propel Bill Clinton into the White House; Steinhardt is the once-hellacious hedge-fund manager ...
If you lived here, you'd be cool by now: ever get the feeling that the New York of your dreams is happening elsewhere? These days, the half-life of a hot neighborhood can be measured in mere weeks. To find the optimal balance of commodious bistros, tasteful urban decline, and cheap(ish) rent before it disappears, run like hell to ...
Dec 11, 2006; ... PERHAPS YOU are happy in your neighborhood. Perhaps you are ensconced right where you are. Perhaps you never indulge the stray notion that maybe it's time to pull up stakes and move to Brooklyn or, if you live in Brooklyn, maybe you should check out Astoria or Jackson Heights. Perhaps your ...
From the well-stuffed closets of Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner: for 40 years, legendary clotheshorse Nan Kempner never missed a couture season. Which is why her closet was filled with 362 sweaters, 354 perfectly tailored jackets, 106 tiny bikinis, and the odd pair of cords from Bloomingdale's boy's department. One rabid collector's life in clothes.
Dec 11, 2006; ... NAN KEMPNER was destined to be a clotheshorse. Born to a wealthy San Francisco family, she was an only child and a third-generation couture client. Her first ensemble, bought by her mother, came from Christian Dior when she was 19--during the period when Yves Saint Laurent was designing ...
Seventh Generation Free & Clear.(THE BEST BET)
Dec 11, 2006 ... The laundry process remains a mystery to many. Why do colors get dull? (Soap buildup; try some vinegar in the wash cycle.) And why doesn't powdered soap dissolve? (You're using too much.) In fact, powder is more environmentally friendly than liquids. And regardless of the detergent chosen, ...