Carrie Bradshaw

Greta Gerwig Isn't Your Average It Girl

25 Actors Who Turned Down Amazing Roles

Julia Roberts could have done Blind Side, but opted for Valentine's Day instead. Jack Nicholson was offered the role of Michael Corleone, but felt it was an offer he could refuse. Michelle Pfeiffer didn't want to be Clarice Starling, and Jeremy Irons pooh poohed the part of Hannibal Lecter, both t ... More >>

Aska's Eamon Rockey on Neighborhood Loyalty, Storytelling, and Serious Cosmopolitans

Eamon Rockey is a patient man. As co-owner and general manager of Aska, Williamsburg's new multi-course Scandinavian restaurant, he also helms the laborious cocktail program -- Rockey often spends months refining house-made tinctures and mixes before serving a finished drink to diners. But he also k ... More >>

The House I Live In Pushes the Straight Dope

Powerful voices (but not the director's) explain the failed war on drugs

Helen Gurley Brown, RIP

Helen Gurley Brown, who taught "mouseburgers" how to become "Cosmo girls," has died. She was the original Carrie Bradshaw, a lady intent on telling the single gal how to get everything out of life--including lots of meaningful sex with desirable men. (Well, people just didn't talk about same-sex s ... More >>

Is There Anything Redeeming About Taylor Cotter's 'I'm Sad I'm Not Poor' HuffPo Essay?

Taylor Cotter, pictured here, is 22. She's got her dream job, a car, and an apartment, but she's sad that she's not poor. She's so dissatisfied with les bons temps, in fact, that she recently penned an essay for HuffPo about her harrowing experience "A Struggle of Not Struggling." Explains Cotter: ... More >>

GOP Chairman Ed Cox Knows More About Chick Flicks Than Your Girlfriend Does (And He Can't Stand Barack Obama)

If there are three things that New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox loves they're puns, chick flicks, and more puns!In his latest attack on President Barack Obama's proclivity for partying with celebrities, the chairman issued a statement this afternoon bashing Bam over tonight's fundraiser at the home of S ... More >>

Love in the Buff

The Five Most Unrealistic Apartments On TV Or In Movies

One way to get a really nice apartment is to be a fictional character. They seem to live way better than we do, even when they don't make any more money than we do. Publicist Ronn Torossian has noticed this amusing disparity, so he writes: Watching the season five premier of Mad Men, I felt compe ... More >>

Americans Are Spending More Money On Things Like Premade Cocktails

via​In what appears to be a case of Carrie Bradshaw-onomics, the New York Times reports that, even amid these current financial straits, Americans have been buying more things they don't actually need over the past year. But this doesn't mean anything is actually getting better in the economy ... More >>

Michelle Matson, Voice Cover Story Bike-Accident Victim, Will Be on Reality TV

File under odd coincidences. Michelle Matson, the Greenpoint bike-accident victim featured in our August 17 cover story, is going to be one of 14 contestants on BRAVO's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist season 2. Matson, for her part, is an SVA grad and a Brooklyn sculptor/artist who's been working ... More >>

Woman's One Happiness Is Her 1,200 Pairs of Shoes

​Here is something we hate at Runnin' Scared: Stereotypes. Particularly when people embody stereotypes in some desperate, transparent search for self-fulfillment, when really, they could, like, volunteer in a soup kitchen or just go get drunk and cry in their ice cream or something. Anyway! Be ... More >>

Seven Ways to Celebrate Bastille Day in New York City

Yes, FIAF has already hosted its annual Bastille Day bash, so 60th Street has been cleared of cancan girls, but the fête isn't over yet. Le quatorze juillet is actually Thursday, and in the spirit of the revolution, we will be celebrating all week. Below, a daily guide to keep the party going. Vive ... More >>

TOAST OF THE TOWN

Discover the art of the cocktail

The 10 Most Insane Comments About the Plight of the Single Lady

​Wow, you guys have opinions! Some are kind and generous and wise and insightful, some are less so. But what can you expect from the Internet but variety? With regard to my recent cover story, there are more than 500 comments, not to mention the numerous emails I've received and read (thank to ... More >>

Dear Single Women of NYC: It's Not Them, It's You.

The plight of the single lady

Magnolia Bakery Lampooned by Unison Fetish Dance

Residents of Bleecker Street ran to their windows on several weekends in September as a line of dancers clad in hot-pink dresses snaked their way up the thoroughfare singing in unison an odd ditty about consumerism.

Life According to Woody Allen Grinds on through You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

From the Vault: The Top 5 Most Fashionable Shows From The '80s

​Before Carrie Bradshaw's ballerina skirt and Blair Waldorf's slutty/Stepford Wives silk blouses, there were Punky Brewster's ripped "boyfriend" jeans. In honor of the Metropolitan Museum's "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity," which explores the style evolution of American women ... More >>

Game Time: 'Sex and the City' Prequel Book or Actual Teen Girl's Website?

​Sex and the City author Candance Bushnell has completely fortified herself from criticism, not by hiding behind her endless stacks of money, but by writing in the voice of a teenager. Is her ability to so expertly express the inanity of being a school-age girl high art or a reflection of limi ... More >>

The Decapitator Beheaded DJ AM in a Rather Ill-Advised NYC Adbust

The Decapitator's Flickr stream The impish genius of the Decapitator, an anonymous street artist who's captured imaginations by skillfully beheading smug advertisements in major metropolitan areas, has been that the objects of his scorn seemed to deserve it. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.) Ca ... More >>

Mac 'n' Cheese Revolution; Beef Tongues Recalled

​Mac 'n' cheese is the new hipster food around New York and Los Angeles, and has even spawned a couple mac-'n'-cheese boutiques: S'MAC in the East Village and its newish rival, Macbar in Soho. [Wall Street Journal] Restaurateurs who once kept close tabs on Frank Bruni will be doing the same w ... More >>

Fringe Festival 2009 Reviews

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part II!

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Bush and Confessions of a Shopaholic Agree: Go Shopping! (Wait, Don't.)

Real World Brooklyn: Chetubular the Morminator Interviews Pete Wentz, Devyn's Boobs Admire Scott's Abs

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, Chet acted like a boob instead of touching one. This week, everybody's favorite MTV Morminator interviews Pete Wentz. Pete Wentz and Orville Redenbacher A disturbing, self-motivational movement has swept ... More >>

Beware the "Downtown Crowd": Watching MTV's The City

With the tragic demise of MTV's highest rated "reality" series The Hills, its lead star Lauren Conrad and marketers are proudly passing the baton to a lesser-known Hills character: Whitney Port, who is now three episodes into The City, her very own New York-based Hills spin-off. Far from the vangu ... More >>

Sarah Jessica Parker Gives Me a Guided Tour of the Met. Sort Of.

I'm at the Met, and I'm all ears (except for this other stuff about Gossip Girl)

Bush Shoe Toss Joins Great Moments in Footwear

Deconstructing The New Ikea in Red Hük

If they come you will build it

Good Taste Invades Times Square. I Hate It.

High-concept blandness in (formerly) low places. Fortunately, some of us are still allergic to it.

Sex and the City: Plotless and Pointless

Despite the labels and levity, the big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

Sex and the City Spoilers: A Sneak Preview of What Really Happens to Carrie and the Girls

Plus Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte, and the rest

Smart People: Deeply Ordinary

Intellectualism goes soft in this more obvious than smart romantic comedy

Keith Gessen and Nathaniel Rich: The New-Gen Pen Men

Young New York lit-mag honchos write novels! (But should maybe stick to editing.)

Trend Voting: Colored Denim - Dudes, Fat Chicks? Beyonce?

Vexed in the City

"Our Man Sietsema" ventures out on the Sex and the City tour around Manhattan

Hope Blogs

Talking with chick-lit blogger Stephanie Klein

What the Butler Saw

In which we summarize Proust competition

All Aboard Berman's Cubist Panopticon Times Square Tour

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

Sex and Dating Deal Breakers

What's the one thing he or she does that turns you off immediately?

When Chloe Met Charlotte

MIICRNYCOAGNWMA? The attack of the female campus sex columnist!

This Is Your Fall Season on Crack

ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers

Machine Age

Marry Me

Female Protégées Suck Up to Donald Trump While Guys Just Suck