Earlier this year, Giorgio Armani unveiled his first-ever hotel, the Armani Hotel Dubai, ensconced in the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. To entice prospective visitors with the luxury hotel’s “minimalist elegance” and “sophisticated beauty”—two descriptions from the website that, as you will soon see, are not embellished—creative director Alex Brunori at MRM Worldwide in [...]
Entertainment Weekly‘s “2010 Entertainers of the Year” issue hit stands this past Friday, featuring country-music juggernaut Taylor Swift on the cover, plus three bonus covers: Glee‘s Jane Lynch, Modern Family‘s Rico Rodriguez (he and his fellow kid castmates are no. 5 on EW‘s list), and Mad Men leading man Jon Hamm. Two of the bonus [...]
Fran Drescher, who previously parlayed a nasal New York accent, big hair, and outsized charm into the hit sitcom The Nanny, has returned to TV, this time as host of her own talk show. Make that “tawk” show, as in The Fran Drescher Tawk Show, which debuted on Fox November 26 and is starting out [...]
Playing “DJ Hero,” by videogame powerhouse Activision, is all about living your fantasy of spinning hot mixes and working everyone up into a frenzy on the dancefloor as if you were in some hot nightspot in South Beach or Ibiza or West Chelsea, even though you’re actually just in your living room in a suburban [...]
Art Miami, the longest-running art fair in Miami, kicks off today, featuring top galleries from all over the world—including the Contessa Gallery, which will be exhibiting limited-edition photographs by David Drebin. Here’s a screen shot of the gallery’s home page, which showcases one of David’s photos… . . David—who was just in Berlin for the [...]
Sports Illustrated has named New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees—who led his team to its first Super Bowl victory—its Sportsman of the Year, a title that the magazine has conferred on only three other NFL players in the past 20 years. And our own Walter Iooss photographed him for the cover story. . . “We [...]
All too pretty? Prix Pictet 2011 shortlist announced.
Have you checked out the shortlist for next year’s Prix Pictet? The theme is “Growth,” which, notes the Prix Pictet site, “has proved to be a rich source of inspiration to the artists and nominators of the third cycle of the Prix Pictet. Over 450 nominated artists submitted many outstanding images that communicated powerful messages about [...]