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It's About Time

This is on Park Avenue. And yes, it is about time someone built a condo tower somewhere else than in Chelsea!

Not as cheesy as you think

With so many fast food franchises sprouting up in Chelsea, Seventh Avenue is beginning to look like a food court at the mall. One of the newest, Supermac, a tiny storefront between 30th and 29th Streets, specializes in mac 'n' cheese.

But they do it well. Their menu sports 11 different versions--everything from the classic elbows with cheddar, to an angus beef with cheese, tomatoes and onions. There's even a Lobster Therimdore with brie and mascarpone. The cheese is just right--not runny or chalky. A whole wheat variety is available for those non-purist types. Neither the space nor the decor invites a sit down dinner, but they deliver. Not only that, but when I placed my order in person, they prepared mine before the delivery orders. Now that's service.--Sherry Mazzocchi

Supermac New York, NY 10001 t.212.760.1900 f 212.760.1902 supermacnyc.com

More Nightclub Crime

The New York Post reports that a mugging and shooting recently occurred in a parking lot at 28th Street and 11th Avenue. The vicitms had just left Club Soul on West 29th St. The suspects were apprehended after driving the wrong way down 43rd street and crashing their car.

A Show On Color--Upstaged By Black

With all of the jewel tones that shine in this exhibit, it is the black costumes that leap out and demand the viewer take notice. Black—the ultimate color of power and gravitas—demands attention to cut, style and texture. The gowns in emerald green and shimmering purple make you stand back and slowly drink in the reverberating color. The whites and pinks nearly warn the viewer away.
Maybe my eyes are jaded by living in the black dress capital of the universe, but it’s hard to get past the hot numbers by Halston and Thierry Mugler to admire the fabulous 1968 mini dress by Pierre Cardin. Even the dark navy blue 1942 U.S. WAVES Navy uniform designed by Mainbocher (who knew they were so chic back then?) is more stunning and elegant than the floral Arnold Scassi.
-Sherry Mazzocchi
She’s Like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion
The Museum at FIT
Seventh Avenue at 27^th Street
Until May 12, 2007

When Only An Original Will Do

I'm sure the party goers were thrilled when they learned that their host had gone to great expense to share a poem with them. "A New York media executive, bidding anonymously at an auction, paid $280,000 this month for an original, handwritten copy of the Clement Clarke Moore poem we have come to know as " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (formal title: "A Visit From St. Nicholas") and read it at a holiday party to his friends.

That's $517.56 per word for a 541-word poem that Moore wrote for his children while riding in the back of a carriage during a Christmas Eve errand in 1822." (Source: The Washington Post)

On the High Line, A Developers Paradise

Nicolai Ouroussoff's article in The New York Times looks at how quickly the High Line Project has gone from being a public park to a developers paradise.

"Even before local activists picked the project’s design team, Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, two years ago, developers had begun circling the site like vultures. Today, the High Line risks being devoured by a string of developments, including a dozen or more luxury towers, a new branch of the Whitney Museum of American Art and a Standard Hotel. Already the area is a mix of the fashionable and the tacky, with tourists tottering from boutiques to nightclubs across its cobblestone streets, even as they recoil from the occasional whiff of raw meat."

On His Way to Chelsea, Santa Lost His Suit

It can be found somewhere between 6th & 7th on Greenwich St.

10th Ave. At Dusk

It is stranger than fiction. What's up with that outdoor ad marring the view?

(Photo: Flickr)

Gallery Openings Worth A Visit: Kathleen Cullen

These works, or roboglyphys, are painstakingly rendered in graphite and gouache. Granados borrows from ancient cave art, Aztec images and even Japanese wood-block prints and combines them with modern technology for an insightful view of progress.
(Sherry Mazzocchi)

^{True Fiction
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
508 W. 26th} Street, Suite 5A
Until January 6^th