I recently went on a date with a man I met in the subway. It was my second subway date of the last four months, but this time it was not with a strange New Zealander given to inadvertent Flight of the Conchords quotations. The newest SS (“Subway Stranger”) shares my fondness for screenwriting, my [...]

I am obsessed with 390 Park Avenue (Lever House). I pass the building almost everyday on my way to the E train at E. 53rd Street. The International Style glass box skyscraper feels like an appropriate hub for the shoe-shined foot traffic of Park Avenue bankers striding to-and-fro. The courtyard’s plein air art [...]

I recently attended the Brooklyn Museum’s Gilbert & George retrospective. The Italian-British duo has been creating art together since the early 1970s, a divine time to break out into large-scale neon pseudo-sacred collages heavy in urban boy love imagery. My personal favorite is the above-pictured Hope from 1984. The series of six lusciously coiffed floating [...]