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When fans heard that 28-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps would be racing against against a shark on live TV they were excited, but it turns out the result wasn’t quite what they had in mind.
“I’m really bad at math,” Cazzie David says as I show her how to use a MetroCard machine. It’s her explanation for why, after a lifetime of visits to New York, the L.A.-based 23-year-old has never ridden the subway.“I know it takes no math to ride the subway,” she clarifies in her deep, disarming monotone, getting out her credit card to purchase a single ride.
Edward Lipinski, Actor, Writer, Illustrator
You’re a real renaissance man.
Well, I used to be an art director and an illustrator, but then the publishing industry died. So I took acting lessons at the American Globe Theatre, got a few head shots, answered an ad in Backstage for a murder-mystery company, and I’ve been with them now for 18 years.
New York’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. This week, a 45-year-old television executive with a high-class matchmaker: 45, straight, divorced, single, UES.
DAY ONE
7 a.m. Yoga class.
When Alfred Stieglitz met Georgia O’Keeffe in 1916, he was an internationally renowned photographer with his own gallery in Manhattan. She was 28 — 25 years his junior — and a virtually unknown schoolteacher.
First Look
On September 1, L.A. denim destination Frame brings its wall of jeans — plus ruffled blouses and leather trenches — to Soho (51 Greene St.).
1. Men’s: Ben Gorham x Frame lightly distressed white denim jacket ($345) and vintage-inspired tee screen-printed with a bucking bronco ($165).
2. Women’s: Ruffled velvet blouse ($325) folded on a raw aluminum table; leather floor-length trench ($2,495) on a mannequin in a vitrine.