New York Times
Reviving the Roxy – Can the Strip Follow? – NYTimes.com
THE stage at the Roxy Theater was a blur of tattoos, platinum hair and black leather pants. Two rock stars, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction and Matt Sorum of Guns N’ Roses, watched the show from the V.I.P. section. Devil horns — the international symbol of rocking out — were thrown triumphantly in the air. The [...]
Skin Deep – Haul Video Brings a Bag of Finds, and Words Only for a Camera – NYTimes.com
MELISSA ROSE PONCE DE LEON, a 19-year-old bartender from the Bronx, had just gone shopping. When she got home she sat in her tiny peach-colored room, leaned into her Web cam and held up her swag: a few MAC lipsticks, a glittery black V-neck top, a snake bracelet and a new pair of Ugg boots. [...]
How Much Is That Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini?
J. CREW’S Tipped Luxe Halter bathing suit top and its matching bikini bottom in pale coral, with delicate orange piping, is pretty enough. But is it $90 worth of pretty? (Tax not included.) For as long as women have flipped through swimwear catalogs or cringed in a dressing room at their winter body in a [...]
New York Times: Richard Simmons—Still Sweatin’ To the Oldies
YOU hear Richard Simmons before you see him. On a recent Saturday morning, his tittering acolytes waited in the small green and pink pastel-colored lobby of Slimmons, his fitness studio here. His familiar Southern-tinged voice floated through the doors of the studio where he was holding Project Me, a talk therapy class about exercise. Suddenly, [...]
New York Times: Dig Out the Spandex and Feel the Burn
AROUND 11:40 a.m. every Sunday, they arrive at Foresight Studios, a rehearsal and performance space in the heart of Silver Lake, a hipster neighborhood in Los Angeles. They wear pink leg warmers, sparkly headbands and the type of tiny shorts not seen since Richard Simmons felt the burn in them in the 1980s. They are [...]
New York Times: A Night Out With Pete Wentz
Los Angeles IN a few hours, Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy’s most famous member and accidental Internet pinup model, would be at the center of 100 excited fans at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard, for a midnight signing of the first installment of the band’s comic book series, “Fall Out Toy Works.” Mr. Wentz would [...]
A Night Out With | Diane Birch – Downtime on Tour – NYTimes.com