http://www.nypress.com/articles.sec-13-1-bash-compactor.html Usually at flashy red-carpet events, it's the dashing young actors that everyone wants to talk to. Not so at the premiere of Steven Spielberg's latest feature film, War Horse. While it proved easy to get in a chat with the movie's strapping British stars, like Jeremy Irvine and Toby Kebbell, its mega-famous director was mighty difficult to catch. ]]> While designer Carlos Campos is known best for his well tailored men’s suits, he also has some awesome opinions on pop culture. I ran into the stylish Honduran – and some Project Runway stars – at F.I.T. Couture Council's Fall Fashion Cocktail soiree, held in the elegantly appointed Cub Room of the Soho Grand Hotel.]]> In a lot of ways, a red carpet is like a crime scene. As officers of the peace, the P.R. people keep the snoopy reporters and photographers at a safe distance from the fashion-crime-committing celebrities, and the barricades put the gawking public out of eyeshot.]]> Yes, I know: “fag hag” isn’t exactly the most delicate way to talk about a lady who loves her gays. How else to say it? I like “friend of a friend of Dorothy”—rest ]]> When it comes to retro, the '50s has always been one of the coolest eras. Yes, the '20s, '30s and '40s can be oh-so-glamorous, but things started to really shake, rattle and roll when Chuck Berry, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marlon Brandon and Marilyn Monroe stormed onto the scene. Who doesn't love hot dudes in tailored business suits, petticoated circle skirts, tight sweaters, sexy, slicked-back pompadours, pointy spike heels and leather jackets?]]> This Friday was to be the end of my social existence. Spectrograph, an art show that promised to be a deconstruction of sight and sound, was welcomed by hurricane-like lightning and rain, but that didn’t stop a room full cyberpunk art aficionados from crowding Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg for the opening last Friday night. ]]> "What a great idea—a vintage band in a vintage shop!" The quintet sounded and looked like an instrumental version of the Soggy Bottom Boys: tin cans for drums, a rubber band and bucket]]> Before heading to the premiere party for IFC's new reality TV show, Whisker Wars, I looked at my five o'clock shadow, then at the razor on my sink. Disrespectful? Two minutes later I looked prepubescent. It seemed best not to appear like I was trying. When I arrived at The Blind Barber, on East 10th Street and Avenue B, the small, industrial barbershop was in full swing.]]> Six years ago, Earls was a human resources director trapped in a loveless marriage when she realized what she actually wanted to do: fuck and photograph. She promptly got divorced and became an erotic photographer. Now having sex five to six times a day and often charging over $1,000 for a shoot, shes achieved her version of success.]]> The word “vivisection” means experimental surgery conducted on live animals and other organisms, and human vivisection has been perpetrated as a form of torture. Ugh! Let’s face it, not too appetizing. However, none of that violence was in evidence last week when I attended the party called ViVisection. Even better, it was held at The Laugh Factory on the Lower East Side. No, there weren’t actually that many laughs, but there was plenty of fashion and sexy scenesters. ]]> It was the most attention-grabbing slideshow presentation anyone in the room had ever seen. In the basement of the Museum of Sex, which sits in the shadow of the Empire State Building, a motley group of people were staring wide-eyed and clutching cans of PBR. At the helm of the slideshow, demurely sipping a red wine and guiding the dumbstruck audience through the photos she took of her own sexploits, was photographer Liz Earls.]]> One of the primary reasons I moved to New York City decades ago was because of Andy Warhol. Just reading about him made me realize I had to live here, so I braved life during the 1970sdespite strenuous protests by my bourgeois family.]]> The Rock Beach party was being sponsored by JellyNYC and since, unlike most of New York, I'd never ventured over to the wildly popular shows put on by Jelly at McCarren Park Pool, here was my chance to experience one of their parties.]]>