The Spirit World

New York girls have reinvented the ancient act of dressing. Perhaps inspired by the lushness of Sofia Coppola’s divine Marie Antoinette, an enterprising group of Manhattanites have begun throwing dress up cocktail parties complete with the sparkling addition of an on call hair stylist.
A pre-nightlife event, fulfilling that childhood game of make believe, each girl […]

A quick cocktail recipe for the weekend. But, bloody ‘ell people, this is a stunner!
I’ve never had PX (that’s wine speak for the Pedro Ximénez sherry) in a cocktail before but this blew me away. It has got to be my fave cocktaill of all time. After all it has champagne in it too!
It came […]

I’ve come across two great cocktail recipes that should bring us kicking and screaming into ‘08 and banish those post New Years and Christmas doldrums.
They are the creation of a Dim Sum restaurant chain in London. They don’t give full recipe details with quantities and such as the website is obviously trying to entice customers but they describe […]

Still wondering what to serve your guests, or looking for a sure-fire cocktail to please a crowd?  If you’re like me, your family is not quite as advanced as you are in the cocktail appreciation realm.  Here are a few vodka-based cocktail ideas that use favorite flavors of fall.  These are easy to make and […]

Apparently HPNOTIQ is, and to quote, “An exotic aqua-marine blue liqueur made from premium  vodka, tropical fruit juices and a touch of cognac, Hpnotiq has become a real favourite with A-list celebrities including Beyonce Knowles, Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake“.
Now we know and all feel enlightened I am sure. Never seen it myself but then […]

The Bar Room at The Modern, at The Museum of Modern Art, is a study on how to place the Bauhaus and twenty-first century Danish design pieces found in the museum in a contemporary, chic, and comfortable setting. 
Several doors east of MoMA on East Fifty-Third Street in New York, a serene white curving tunnel leads […]

Wherever you live, some nights positively tingle with the feeling that anything is possible. Anywhere you go, some nights it feels like nothing will ever go right. Ask any gambler: all too often those nights that begin so charged with possibility end in the crushing conviction that everything’s gone hopelessly to shit.
Sorry.  I’ve been watching a […]

The first time I met Rob Thomas of the band Matchbox Twenty, I wanted to punch him in the face. I was not yet 20 at the time, which means he was something like 26 or 27. That second single was all over both of the town’s two megawatt alterna-rock stations, and I just didn’t […]

On the way across Market Street, I tried on my friend’s new pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses. The air was pleasantly cool, as it always is in San Francisco around cocktail hour. The sky was clear and bright, for a welcome change. Nothing about the surroundings stood in need of embellishment.The shades, black plastic frames […]