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Sofia Coppola’s much-hyped upcoming flick The Bling Ring may be the second all-star-cast-plays-teenage-girls-doing-crimes this summer, but it’s the first based on a true story involving terrible reality show alumnae. And, from the tracklist released this week, it looks like the film will have a pretty excellent soundtrack.

The time has come to start picking out summer destinations. By way of methodologies you could do worse than throwing darts at the oyster list from Cull & Pistol, the new sit-down spinoff from The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market. How about Mirichimi Bay, New Brunswick, home of the Beau Soleil oyster? Or Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island, known for its cottages, piping plovers, and the crisp finish of Indian Creek bivalves? Maybe you’d prefer the west coast, where the rugged shores of Cortes Island, British Columbia, abet rugged blue shellfish? If all else fails, there’s always Chelsea.

Receiving an invitation to the Levi's showroom in LA, better known as the Haus of Strauss, is like scoring a golden ticket. From the second you step into the legendary denim label's enchanting, devastatingly stylish wonderland, you're immediately hit with a surge of creative energy that's impossible to resist, which is likely why brands can't stop collaborating with them. The latest label to team up is cool-kid UK brand, Liberty of London.

Weddings can be really hard, you guys! They’re hard when you’re the person planning them, but often can be just as trying is merely attending the affair. There’s the out-of-town arrangements, the booking of hotels and flights and rental cars because they decided to get married on a ranch in East Jesus Nowhere, Georgia, the nagging cognitive dissonance that comes with supporting the worst parts of the wedding-industrial complex and, of course, trying to coordinate with a date, if you’ve got that going on.  

Th Meatpacking's sexy steakhouse STK gets even sexier tomorrow when it opens its single greatest facet: the rooftop.

It's hard to imagine--but somehow Philippe Starck still refuses to just leave well enough alone. To be sure, his newest restaurant project (in partnership with Paridis du Fruit founder Claude Louzon), Miss Kō, is plonked along Paris' most haute boulevard, the Avenue George V--yet it appears as if lifted from some surreal X-Box anime game. Or as Monsieur Starck himself describes it, “Miss Kō is a fantasy, an exquisite corpse, where you walk into a faraway court of miracles on a street straight out of Blade Runner, steeped in limitless creative madness." Totally!

"That feeling of home but not home, somewhat but not quite—all that plays a part in what I would hope to be the emotional content of my music," says the strange and wonderful Nico Muhly. "There's always a sense of displacement and longing." Wildly intelligent and feverish in nature, the 31-year-old composer is as prolific as he is talented, with work spanning from contemporary operas and classical chamber pieces to electronic drones and film scores, and just about everything in between. 

In honor of the national holiday that is National Burger Month, I'm devoting Fridays to the world's love for the juicy, dripping beast that is The Burger. First honored were the weirdest burgers, then the smallest burgers, and today, I'm honoring NYC's BIGGEST burgers. Oh yes. Size matters. Take a look at these big boys: