Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000213 EndHTML:0000008463 StartFragment:0000003402 EndFragment:0000008427 SourceURL:file:///Corpus%20Colossum/Users/ashleyclaire/Desktop/Freelance%20Stuff/Clips/A_FriedmanClips.doc For a lot of us, pursuing the creative career dreams we have means putting on hold the big money-hot clothes-Venice vacation dreams that we also have.     BUT as we are all sometimes been forced to admit -both on this site and in actual, physical

If you assholes like to laugh, and I’m pretty sure you do, allow me to direct you to an event this evening that will have you busting a gut, splitting your sides and Ell-Oh-Ell-ing with such alacrity that your friend will have to ball-gag you! “Don’t Touch Me There”, tonight

So yet again I am happy (sort of) to not be in NYC this weekend, because there is yet another amazing fashion event that I am far too poor to possibly take part in.  The wonderful people over at Refinery29 have once again partnered with an amazing set of independent

New York is a place where people think nothing of shelling out $300 and up for a haircut.  I myself remain loyal to a wonderful stylist who sets me back $100 before tip every time I go in.  Is it worth it? Yes. I truly believe that it is.  However,

Most everybody knows that 8th Avenue between 14th Street and the early 30s is a gay mecca, the center of the beating heart of Chelsea  filled with all the gay bars, porno magazines and rainbow flags one could wish for.  Most people also know that  further west lies the Chelsea

If you saw my bank account balance you would laugh softly to yourself, and then immediately ask me if that was just maybe, like, my second checking account and my real money is elsewhere.  To this I would reply “No, that’s it.” Then you would probably raise your eyebrows ever-so-slightly

More than one writer on this site has remarked on the “Back To School” feeling that fall in NYC always evokes.  I’ve been out of school for a while– excepting for a short lived and financially ruinous dalliance with graduate school–and since then, wool skirts, stockings and blazers have been