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Recently, legend became reality when a 10-story building in SoHo was being converted to a luxury condo. Unearthed in the walls was a large mural created by graffiti pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Futura 2000.The artwork contains a variety of images and writing executed in spray paint, grease pencil, magic marker and whatever else was on hand — in silver, gold, pink and red. There are cartoonlike pictures of a bomber airplane, images of a...

So, the GQ story where Glenn "Style Guy" O'Brien accused Mayor Bloomberg of "dumbing down" his style in order to be Mayor for Joe and Jane New York has hit City Hall, thanks to probing press corps reporters. The Daily News reports:

[A] reporter mentioned the GQ column and asked Hizzoner, "Do you feel, as mayor of one of the fashion capitals of the world, you should bring more style and maybe jazz up your wardrobe?"

Continue reading "The Mayor Needs New Clothes?"

The Bruce Davidson exhibit, Subway, opens today at the Hermes Gallery, and last night, Gothamist got to check out Davidson's photographs which are beautiful prints of subways and subways riders during the early 1980s last night. The gallery, on the fourth floor of the Hermes Boutique on Madison and East 62nd, is an unexpected treat - who would give up a floor of potential retail space to show art?

Wesley Clark has been blowing off the Iowa caucuses to concentrate on New Hampshire and to visit in New York. Gothamist saw him at Grand Central yesterday, where he spoke to commuters amid the media scrum. As people jockeyed to tell Clark various things ("I was in the service" or "I'm the CEO of a financial services company"), we could hear his staffers telling others who couldn't get to Clark, "His motorcade is out that door; you'll have a great chance of speaking to him outside, why don't you go wait?" Gothamist contemplated asking Clark if he was going to do any shopping in the city, you know, to support the economy and continue to soften up his image (the Fab Five just made over a military man the other night - imagine what they could do with the General!), but we got hungry and went to buy a bagel.

Simpson also discusses being credited (or not) for the term's origins; oddly enough, British journalists say the idea is from "New York admen" whereas U.S. journalists do credit him. Read the interview, it's filled with a lot of interesting thoughts about hetero and homo as well as metrosexuality. And we're not giving anything away when we leave you with Simpson's final words, "The only thing that's certain about the metrosexual is that he's the kind of man that the modern world deserves. "

And Mr. T's "Conan O' Brien will be pitied not be me as a fool, but by fools as a superfool."

At least Bravo/NBC is putting the Fab Five to work on people who need some queering up. Tonight, the Queer Eye boys appear on Buchanan/Press. Yes, Pat Buchanan and Bill Press - old dudes. They are supposed to get a "full 'Queer Eye' assessment." Someone TiVo this.

." The Daily News mentions a straight guy named Captain Caveman whom Newsday also noted. Obviously, he made himself look like the total Straight Guy ready for some Queer Eyes to reporters.

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy premiered Tuesday night and it was just as good as Gothamist had hoped: A pack of gay men terrorizing a straight man into cleaning himself and his lifestyle in order to jumpstart his life, by way of clothes, accessories, styling products, gourmet food, and etiquette, and a healthy dose of bitchy remarks - love it.

As if Gothamist wasn't already jealous of people who get to hang out with the Fab Five of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, John Sellers goes through a mini-gayification for the Times. Damn damn damn. Sellers' abs get prodded, his apartment gets made over, he goes to Craft for lunch, he goes to the salon and then goes shopping. Among what the experts say:

There are two TV season premieres that straight women and gay men are looking forward to this summer: Sex and the City on June 22 and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on July 15. Five gay "cultural experts," aka "The Fab Five" will help straight guys understand more about fashion, culture, and living. It's a self-improvement show, along the lines of A Makeover Story or Fashion Emergency, but not as extreme as, well, Extreme Makeover. Finally, the Fab Five will give a "Queer Stamp of Approval."