Author: Christy DeSmith

  • Throwback Gowns

    If RetroRama was any indication, there’ll be about a gazillion people wearing pill box hats at this weekend’s Antique and Vintage Clothing event. Trouble is there’s a six-dollar cover to get into the thing. But you can save a whopping buck if you come dressed in vintage. From what I understand, this is one of…

  • David Bowie for Target (not really … )

    Just dropping in to leave an amusing little press release from Target Corp … (Am I the only one who finds this amusing?) Also, I apologize for posting press releases. It’s just that I’ve been drowning in the minutiae of producing a magazine. So there you have it. And here you go: Target Announces Bowie…

  • Hot Damn! Prince's In-Store Performance at Macy's

    According to the press release I just received from Macy’s: Macy’s North and Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics, marketers of Prince’s upcoming fragrance 3121, today announced an exclusive opportunity for 1,400 fans to see Prince perform in his hometown of Minneapolis at Macy’s downtown flagship store on 07/07/07. Fans will receive a once-in-a-lifetime xclusive [sic] 3121…

  • Barbarella

    This irreverent modern dance production is inspired by Jean-Claude Forest’s cheeky ’60s comic strip Barbarella. But it’s more closely related to the 1968 sci-fi movie Forest’s book inspired. Just as Jane Fonda did in that movie version, Dolls dancer Heather Cadigan gets things started with a zero-gravity striptease. In this instance, however, the achievement owes…

  • Words Before Music

    Climbing aboard a stool plucked from the 7th Street Entry’s barroom, local poet Éireann Lorsung offered a self-introduction. “I don’t know if you’ll believe this, but I’ve never opened for a band before.” Peering through a red fog of stage light at a small but enthusiastic crowd, the prim and somewhat elfin-looking twenty-six-year-old added, “I’ve…

  • Bo Peep Chic

    This year’s warm-weather looks are characterized by something that hasn’t been seen in a while: full frontal fabric. Or, at the very least, covered-up biceps, cleavage, and tummies, which had been laid bare by the tanks and slip dresses of previous seasons. But whatever the comforts and flaw-disguising advantages of these fashions, they also bear,…