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...Some performers are criticized as being "too hip for the room" or "playing to the band." Lenny was plenty hip, maybe excessively so; his performances were crash courses in bop argot and Yiddish. And he did love cracking up the musicians, since he thought of himself as their kinsman: an improv artist with words. But he gained a large following, even though his material, even in his early prime, was deemed too controversial for TV. (Remember, there were only three networks and some independent stations. And this was the 50s. Only Steve Allen, an early and loyal fan, booked Lenny...
...Hara seat by Giorgio Gurioli for Kundalini Transform your backyard into a hip Balearic hangout with the Modigliana, Italy-based Gurioli's Hara seat, a retrofuturist study in fiberglass. Available in orange, red and white and coated with UV-resistant lacquer, it could easily have arrived in a pop-cultural 1960s time capsule. http://kundalini.it...
This time Schrager is selling a completely different look, one he calls the antithesis of hip. The sleek modernism he pioneered with French designer Philippe Starck has been replaced by an opulent interior designed by the artist Julian Schnabel. The idea is to create a space that looks like an artist's studio. Instead of three-legged stools and linoleum floors, there are deep velvet sofas, stuccoed walls and Giacometti-style cast-bronze doorknobs...
Schrager calls it eclectic bohemian, a very personal response to what he sees as an overdesigned, overbranded and perhaps overaccessible idea of luxury. "There's going to be a backlash against all this branding," Schrager said on a recent tour of the lobby. "Everything hip is now immediately co-opted by the mainstream. I wanted to make something very individualized and unique...
...athletes might not have achieved immortality on talent alone? Hell, no. Last week came word that Floyd Landis--the fun-loving Mennonite from Pennsylvania, the guy whose Alpine comeback in the Tour de France was dubbed, properly, "The Ride of the Century" (and he did it with a bum hip to boot)--that guy might have cheated...