SHOPPING Cut Off at the Knees
By MELENA RYZIK Thursday, July 10, 2008  Dean Isidro for The New York Times
Cut-offs are all the rage this summer — fancy cut-offs. "We're talking not just about jeans or khakis, but about a frayed hem (and a few inches more leg) on the dressiest shorts you have," writes David Colman. He offers some stylish options, like the Obedient Sons $130 version, as well as precise instructions involving a razor blade for DIY types. Put the money you save ... towards a pair of opulent shades, or, better yet, a specialized beach cooler. And hurry up: it's already mid-July. "The Sharpest Shorts Are Abbreviated Pants," by David Colman "Love Your Sunglasses (Should I Know You?)," by Ruth La Ferla "At the Beach, Comfort of Home," by Sarah Tuff
MUSIC Serenade at a Castle
Missed Wednesday night's sold-out Feist show in Prospect Park? Make up for it Thursday night: the singer-songwriter Annie Clark, a k a St. Vincent, performs at Castle Clinton. Both women are soloists who like collectives; both, Kelefa Sanneh wrote last year, flirt "with the idea of being an old-fashioned chanteuse." St. Vincent's debut album, "Marry Me," shows off "everything at once: her warm and versatile voice, her nimble and precise finger-picking, her love of old-fashioned torch songs and new-fangled electronics." The ticket give-away line starts at 5 p.m. "The Return of the One-Man Band," by John Wray "Songs of Heavy Experience and Innocence," by Kelefa Sanneh ART, NIGHTLIFE Summer Group Show Round-Up
You can start with "Pretty Ugly," which opens Thursday night at two neighboring galleries in the West Village, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Maccarone. With more than 75 artists, including Louise Bourgeois, John Currin, Alice Neel and Francis Picabia, it seeks to "challenge our standards of beauty or establish new ones," writes Karen Rosenberg. Then head up to the Paul Kasmin Gallery for "Totally Rad: New York in the '80s," which features the era's art stars, like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel and Cindy Sherman. For tomorrow's future art stars, head to Alphabeta, a just-opened "graffiti supply" store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which will host an opening and party for a bunch of Austrian street artists. Ya, you knew them when... The Week Ahead — Art, by Karen Rosenberg BOOKS More Lobster, Dear?
"The Romantics," Galt Niederhoffer's follow-up to "A Taxonomy of Barnacles," follows a group of Yalie friends and lovers as they gather a few years after graduation for a lavish wedding at a mansion in Maine. The novel "offers more cynicism than flights of romantic fancy," Janet Maslin writes. "But it is well enough executed by Ms. Niederhoffer to illustrate why well-wrought cynicism never goes out of style." Snicker along Thursday night, when the author reads at 192 Books. "Friends Reunited at a Wedding on Maine's Rocky Coast, Dashed Hopes All Around," by Janet Maslin "A Family Tale, Toned Down for Fiction," by Erika Kinetz NIGHTLIFE Genuine P-Arty
Swoon Magazine, a politicized, gender-bending indie fashion rag, throws itself a party for its summer issue. Head to the CSV Cultural Center for photo booths courtesy of the magazine's cover artists, live music, interactive video, and the original politicized, gender-bending, ex-hardcore band leader Genesis Breyer P-Orridge behind the decks. UrbanEye video: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at PS 1
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