is west chelsea fucked?

the gallery scene in west chelsea was basically part of the hudson river last week, and nymag, jerry saltz, and other people are afraid that the implications of water sogged paintings, installations, archives, and galleries might spell bad news for the whole neighborhood. how are we supposed to survive without free wine at mid-week show openings?


UPDATE: jerry saltz hasn't lost hope and neither should you!

ronaldo :: underwear :: pissed

cristiano ronaldo from real madrid and some other soccer players took some sessy pictures for annie leibovitz and vanity fair. on the cover, they combined a sessy underwear picture of ronaldo with a less sessy underwear picture of didier drogba, a rival player who plays for chelsea FC. as is standard practice, different pictures from different photoshoots were combined to create the final composite cover image, but ronaldo is pissed that he looks to be standing in his undies next to his enemy. quit your bitching ronaldo.

i think...

...we can officially call amanda seyfried a "2Pz favorite". here she is on last night's chelsea lately. she's funny irl! i'm so glad. it could've easily gone either way.

chelsea's gettin' a trader blow's!

The Ladies' Mile now belongs to a man called Joe. The Observer brings word that the full block of hot retail action at 675 Sixth Avenue that was last occupied by Barnes & Noble will become a Trader Joe's. (via)

thx rob.

hey rob, does this look familz?

last friday night, from a source that shall remain nameless, i heard a rumor about some erotic rubdowns going on front-&-center in chelsea. that news didn't strike me as odd, but it did seem illegally odd to the cops...who shut it the F down on dubious charges of permitting and sidewalk obstruction.

now, i'm not saying i endorse this sort of sexual display, or that the NYPD has a seething hatred for gays, but i will allude to the possibility of those sentiments for the sake of stirring shit up.

additionally, it seems the owner will protest his right to have a couple greasy men rubbing on each other in a storefront window (which we all know is explicitly protected in the bill of rights), so prepare yourself for the possibility of more purblic mass-sage.