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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'nude'

May 3, 2008

Cops are on the lookout for a pants-less NJ man accused of breaking into an Edison, NJ woman's home, disrobing, and molesting its sleeping occupant. The police are now recommending that people not leave windows or doors unlocked because the nude intruder weirdo remains on the loose. Thursday morning, a 39-year-old woman awoke to find a nude man in bed with her and stroking her thigh around 3 a.m. He was an uninvited guest and......

Continue Reading "Nude-truder Terrorizes Sleeping Woman"

March 27, 2008

Spencer Tunick and a crowd of volunteer naked people brazenly defied the dress code at the Four Seasons restaurant last Saturday for Tunick’s 75th installation documenting the human form in unexpected places. Other New York locations where Tunick's models have gone au naturale include Grand Central Station and Times Square. Tunick’s Saturday shoot coincided with the day the Pool Room at the Four Seasons changes its seasonal décor to a Spring theme. This 20X24 photograph......

Continue Reading "No Jacket Required: Spencer Tunick at Four Seasons"

February 18, 2008

Lindsay Lohan by Bert Stern. In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos (2,571 in all) of Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel-Air that are collectively known as “The Last Sitting.” The 36-year-old Monroe was in the darkest period of her life, having weathered two recent divorces, gallbladder surgery and sickness during production of the romantic comedy Something’s Got to Give, from which she was fired and rehired. Six weeks after the Stern......

Continue Reading "Lindsay Lohan Recreates Marilyn Monroe's "Last Sitting""

February 2, 2008

The Equinox fitness club chain will soon be bringing a controversial ad campaign to New York City that features nuns sketching a male nude model. The ads are currently on display only in Boston, but will soon be shown in other cities, including NYC. The Boston Archdiocese feels that the ads are a slam against the Church and the Catholic faith. Keira McCaffrey of New York's Catholic League expressed less outrage than disdain. "It's......

Continue Reading "Implied Frontal Nudity an Affront to Some"

December 17, 2007

Remember that cruel(la) couple from Long Island that enslaved two Indonesian women who worked in their mansion? After their million dollar bail plan was announced back in June we hadn't heard much about these two. Today, however, silence was broken after Varsha Mahender Sabhnani and her hubby Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani's trial has ended...and the latest is not good news for them! The terrible two-some "were each convicted of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment......

Continue Reading "Long Island Slaveholders Face Sentencing"

December 12, 2007

Last year WNBC got up close and personal with the Civic Fame statue atop the Municipal Building, and this week The NY Times looks at the woman who modeled for that statue, and many others -- Audrey Munson, "a long-forgotten New York celebrity whose face and figure continue to grace the contours of statues all around Manhattan."It was Ms. Munson’s eyes that stared stoically from the marble forms of the Firemen’s Memorial on Riverside Drive,......

Continue Reading "Memorializing Audrey Munson"

November 28, 2007

November marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Tawana Brawley affair--an incident that inflamed racial relations in New York and across the country after a teenage girl alleged that she had been sexually assaulted and abused by police. The ensuing media circus thrust Rev. Al Sharpton into the limelight and established his bona fides as a community spokesman. It also tarnished the reputations of the people she accused of raping her and, later......

Continue Reading "Tawana Brawley, 20 Years Later"

November 3, 2007

Just weeks after the New York Post milked a week's worth of coverage out of a 26-year-old's nude romp in the middle of the afternoon through Times Square, the paper heads back to the bare-naked well with yet another mentally disturbed male who wanted to lap the Square sans clothing. 44-year-old Antonia Alicata caught a Metro North train down to the city Thursday and then rode the subway to Times Square. Somewhere along the way,......

Continue Reading "Crazy Guys Love to Get Naked in Time Square"

November 2, 2007

Up above you have Park Slope #17 and Carroll Gardens #13, respectively. Jennifer Loeber is bringing nude photography close to home with her series that show different Brooklynites in the flesh, in their apartments. They could even be your neighbors! And her inspiration? It came from a flasher on the subway, of course: "The idea to shoot nude portraits came about as I rode the NYC subway and pretended not to notice, across the......

Continue Reading "Jennifer Loeber, Photographer"

September 30, 2007

This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King, and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and......

Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse"

September 25, 2007

THEATER: The National Asian American Theatre Company is known for creating adventurous theater with an all-Asian American performing plays that often have little to do with Asian Americans. Their newest production is Blind Mouth Singing by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas; it uses a watery set and live music to tell a story of an “overly strict matriarch; her young son Reiderico who sneaks out of the house to visit his best friend who lives at the......

Continue Reading "Pencil This In"

September 21, 2007

We're really surprised no one thought of this sooner: vintage healthcare! Well, sort of. Jay Parkinson declares he is a "new kind of physician," and he is. Revolutionary, in fact. Based out of Williamsburg, he's bringing healthcare to those who wouldn't normally be able to receive it without breaking the bank...giving the uninsured masses a reason to breathe a sigh of relief. He's also mixing this idea with an old one: house calls! Back to......

Continue Reading "Paging Dr. Parkinson"

September 4, 2007

If you like butts and you cannot lie, Allen and Houston might be the place for you. Then again, maybe the butt and legs pictured in American Apparel's new billboard aren't your cup of tea. Astute readers (or LES residents) may remember the "beaver shot" that previously adorned the corner. Some neighbors are actually fed up. Reader Jessi tells us, "Many of us on the Lower East Side and East Village are very opposed......

Continue Reading "Seen on the Corner of Allen and Houston, Take Two"

August 4, 2007

Earlier this week, the FDNY Foundation, a non-profit that raises money for FDNY causes, released the 2008 edition of its popular Calendar of Heroes, featuring some of the Bravest's bare-chested hunks posing in all parts of New York City and thrilling many. But after the calendar crew appeared on the Today show, the eagle-eyed realized that cover boy Michael Biserta, of Ladder Co. 131 in Red Hook, was also featured in a Guys Gone Wild......

Continue Reading "FDNY's Calendar Hosed Over, Um, Other Kind of Hose"

August 2, 2007

"Truly, this has been the most unusual job I’ve ever had, and I don’t know if I could ever have another 9-5 job, because what do I do for an encore? What would top this?" After years of serving as senior editor of Playgirl magazine, Coleen Kane is leaving her post and the big city for Baton Rouge. Gothamist caught up with Colleen as she prepared for move to find out about what it's......

Continue Reading "Colleen Kane, Writer and Former Senior Editor of Playgirl Magazine"

June 5, 2007

Chalk it up to the Wall Street Journal for making moles so interesting. The WSJ has an article about how a pioneering medical procedure and disturbing nude photos have rocked the world of dermatology. Bill Slue, an NYU Medical Center photographer who "devised a way to capture the whole body on film using 24 sectional photographs," which helps dermatologists monitor patients' moles. But now there's a dispute about whether he took photographs of female patients......

Continue Reading "Holy Mole-y: NYU Derm Picture Scandal"

May 20, 2007

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse"

May 10, 2007

Jane Larkworthy, beauty editor of W magazine, testified yesterday in the sensational trial of her boyfriend Peter Braunstein. Lawyers for Braunstein are trying to argue that when Larkworthy dumped Braunstein, it sent him into a 2-year tailspin of depression and mental illness so severe that when he sexually attacked a co-worker on October 31, 2005 while holding her captive for 13 hours, he was just acting out a fantasy (and therefore, cannot be found guilty).......

Continue Reading "Ex-Factor: Ex-Girlfriend Testifies in Braunstein Trial"

May 1, 2007

"Some Time in New York City" was released in 1972 as John Lennon's third post-Beatles album (and his fifth with Yoko Ono). Critically and commercially the album didn't do well, especially compared to Lennon's previous albums. "Imagine" had just come out in the 1971, and comparatively this one was brash, loud and more reflective of his political and new geographical surroundings at the time, in Greenwich Village. As documented in The US vs John......

Continue Reading "NYC Album Art: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Some Time In New York City"

May 1, 2007

Jason Schuler and Kourtney Rutherford are well known in the downtown theater scene for their colorful and quirky collaborations. The two first met while students at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing and have since gone on to create numerous performance pieces that playfully push the boundaries of the form. Rutherford's new play, The Present Perfect, is currently running at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg. [Tickets.] Schuler, who co-produced the play and performs in it, spoke with......

Continue Reading "Jason Schuler, Actor/Writer/Producer"

April 22, 2007

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a DOA floater in the Harlem River at Manhattan's 135th St., a homicide on Church and Nostrand Aves. in Brooklyn, and a jumper was up on the Williamsburg Bridge just before noon this morning. NYC local Steven Herbst won a Hall of Fame award at the International Whistling Convention in Louisberg, NC. When we wrote about former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's life-sized nude photo he had on display in......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"

April 21, 2007

The mud is being flung in the McGreevey divorce, a separation precipitated by the former NJ Governor's announcement that he is "a gay American." Jim McGreevey's estranged wife insists that she is not homophobic, but is trying to protect her daughter by filing court papers describing behavior she feels isn't in the young girl's interest. Dina McGreevey's complaints include an allegation that Jim lets their daughter sleep in the same bed he shares with his......

Continue Reading "McGreevey Divorce Gets Contentious––and More Public"

April 21, 2007

A Manhattan woman is suing her former roommate for $1 million after she discovered that he had been secretly taping her with a hidden camera while she was in her bedroom. After discovering a camera in what her roommate told her was an "air-cleaning unit", Claudia Pak found more than two dozen video files on his computer of herself "in various states of undress and engaged in activities of a highly personal nature". The files......

Continue Reading "Beware of Roommates Installing "Air-Cleaners""

April 2, 2007

Ever since The Lab, the gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, canceled an exhibit of a 6-foot, nude crucified Jesus carved out of chocolate after much furor, the question is now: When will My Sweet Lord (the name of the 200-pound sculpture) rise again? Chocolate Christ's creator - heh! - Cosimo Cavallaro says that he's received many offers to display his sculpture: "I've got thousands of e-mails of help and donations, people who want to......

Continue Reading "Chocolate Jesus On The Move"

March 30, 2007

A six-foot tall chocolate sculpture of Jesus which will be displayed at a Midtown hotel next week is stirring up controversy. Catholics are calling Cosimo Cavallaro's "My Sweet Lord" an "all-out war on Christianity." The sculpture is supposed to be installed in a window at the Roger Smith Hotel's gallery, The Lab, on East 47th Street and Lexington Avenue. Cavallaro claims that the Easter-timing was a coincidence, and besides, this isn't his first chocolate......

Continue Reading "Easter Bunny, Meet Chocolate Jesus"

March 23, 2007

A man brought in for questioning about the Wednesday incident where a 13-year-old was found practically nude and handcuffed to a tree in Staten Island was arrested. The Staten Island Advance reports that 26-year-old William Marcus is expected to be arraigned today - and that he was "arrested eight years to the day before last night's bust for a sexual abuse case." Though the 13-year-old said he was abducted on his way to school, police......

Continue Reading "Arrest in SI Teen Abduction "

March 18, 2007

We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post about our Mayor's girlfriend. She responded back on charges that she's not a "girl's girl" and, whoo boy-- the floodgates? They......

Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse"

February 25, 2007

After a many months absence, here are some stats about this week's NY Times Weddings and Celebrations announcements: Total Number of Weddings: 9 Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 24 Oldest Bride: 55 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 50 Longest Relationship Before Getting Married: 27 Years Number of Cornell Graduates Married: 1 Number of NYU Graduates Married: 1 Number of Princeton Graduates Married: 1 Number of University of Pennsylvania Graduates Married: 2 Number......

Continue Reading "Times Weddings by the Numbers"

February 9, 2007

Hours ago, former State Comptroller Alan Hevesi was fined $5,000 and sentenced to probation for "unlawful use of a state vehicle and driver" when he used his employees to drive his ill wife. The Times Union has an 18-minute video of the sentencing; reporter Rick Karlin noted that Albany County Court Judge Stephen Herrick said to the Queens Democrat, "Your fall from grace has been total and from a very great height…You are now......

Continue Reading "As Bad Blood Boils in the NY Democratic Party"

February 9, 2007

February 10th and 17th, class is in session at the UCB Theater. Welcome to the Al Pacino School of Acting , where you learn from the master, portrayed by Cesar Gracia. Audience members will have the opportunity to pick up some of the tricks of the trade as Pacino calls them onstage and brings out the true auteur in them. Miami got David Caruso; NYC got William Peterson. Who's better off? I'm from Miami so......

Continue Reading "Cesar Gracia, Actor and Comedian"
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