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Articles Written by: CINTRA WILSON
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Cintra Wilson is an American writer who writes about celebrity in America. She is a frequent contributor to Salon.com and the San Francisco Examiner. She usually attempts to project a humorous, sharply sarcastic tone. Her books include A Massive Swelling and Colors Insulting to Nature. She writes a bi-weekly column called "The Dregulator," which critiques the tabloid culture, which is syndicated in a number of alternative weeklies. She also maintains a blog, The Dregublog, at her website.
WILLIAM FAULKNER once said: “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it is life.”
When it comes to redoubling ...
YEARS ago, my clique habituated a Lower East Side restaurant called Hat (translated from El Sombrero for N.Y.C. natives). The enchiladas were O.K.; the main attractions were the cheap margaritas, the salsa jukebox and the nervy, unreasonable mood of ...
DURING a depression, we must change our habits streamline, get clever and make adjustments, I thought as I twisted a trashy metal detail off my new ersatz Balmain motorcycle pants with a pair of diagonal pliers.
The brand beloved of multinational Girl ...
IF style is an articulation of character, Isaac Mizrahi might be the Falstaff of the fashion world.
Mr. Mizrahi’s destiny has been rife with potholes; his career, always seemingly indivisible from his personal life, has been subject to manic swings. ...
THERE are destination stores that you must make pilgrimages to just for your edification. You go for the same reason you go to great little museums or unique homes: to bask in an expansive articulation of a particular style, a unified curatorial vision. ...
WHILE performing at Madison Square Garden in 2006, Barbra Streisand dressed down a heckler in fragrant language. “The artist’s role is to disturb,” she said, after apologizing.
The designer Rei Kawakubo has successfully kept Comme des Garçons just as ...
SEVERAL years ago, the stretch of Atlantic Avenue that runs from Flatbush Avenue to the East River used to be identifiable primarily for having an antique row on one end and Brooklyn’s main Arab community on the other.
Since then, independently owned ...
J.C. PENNEY has broken free of its suburban parking area to invade Herald Square, and the most frequent question on New York’s collective lips seems to be: Why?
Why would this perennially square department store bother to reanimate itself in Manhattan ...
WALL STREET was alive with unintentional self-parody last week. A construction pit was yawning in front of the heart of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange, which has sunk to selling ad space on its own forehead: Its Corinthian pillars ...
I HALF remember an interview with Anne Hathaway: She said something to the effect that she started being recognized as a fashion icon the minute she stopped caring about looking pretty.
It’s true. To have your clothing appreciated by men, you dress a ...
