If You Have to Cry, Go Outside

Think you’ve had a bad day? Think you have a demanding job? Think you’ve had a tough life? Kelly Cutrone can top it.
The intimidating fashion publicist from “Kell on Earth,” “The City” and “The Hills” has been addicted to drugs, homeless, gone through two divorces, and was single while pregnant- and she did all this [...]

Andy Warhol, the Prince of Pop

Who was Andy Warhol? The man behind the famous silk-screen art pieces has remained a mystery. His personal life kept quiet, just the way he wanted it.
I’ve always been fascinated by Warhol and his superstars. Years ago I read Jean Stein’s Edie: American Girl, which used quotations of those in Edie Sedgwick’s life to [...]

A Christmas Carol

In 1843, Charles Dickens read a parliamentary report called “Second Report of the Children’s Employment Commission,” which exposed the effects the Industrial Revolution had on poor children. Dickens visited the Cornish tin mines to see children working in tough conditions and went to London’s Field Lane Ragged School, a school for starving, illiterate street children. [...]