If there was an award for best stage entrance of the year, Reyna de Courcy would have to be considered a front-runner. At the beginning of Gregory S. Moss's new play Orange, Hat & Grace at Soho Rep, de Courcy's hand is the first thing you see, poking up from under the dirt and wood chips that cover the front of the stage. A slender arm follows, then a shoulder, and finally a head as she creeps up from some subterranean burrow to confront a stern, backwoods recluse named Orange (Stephanie Roth Haberle). It's a promising start, but then de Courcy starts talking. The script has filled her mouth with abstract stream-of-consciousness spoken word stuff, featuring repeated lines like, "I made my circle in the woods. I made my circle in the woods" You wish she'd go back underground and stay there. more ›

Continuing their misguided and terribly executed orange bike campaign, DKNY has infiltrated YouTube with a 1 minute 53 second clip of a model speaking out in support of the company's great..."humanitarian cause"? The video starts off showing two models mowing each other down with fake miniature cars as an orange bike lies on the ground...probably not the best way to negate the whole ghost bike thing. more ›

Curious about the fate of all those orange bikes with the DKNY website that were locked up around town? The ones the police didn’t cart away (some were illegally chained to trees) are being picked clean for spare parts. The tone deaf Fashion Week publicity stunt was presented by DKNY as an effort to promote cycling in New York, and the company did help raise awareness by, uh, distributing bicycle maps in their stores. Oh, and their website for the campaign has a photo of models riding a bike, though they’re too cool for helmets, of course. more ›