Left to Right: Chef Joey Campanaro, Nur Khan, and Paul Sevigny at Kenmare

When you think of deejay night impressario Paul Sevigny pairing up with Rose Bar kingpin Nur Khan, the last thing that might pop to mind is incredible food, the kind that makes your mouth water. But add chef Joey Companaro — who presides at his restaurants Little Owl and Market Table — to the mix, and you’ve got incredible flavors for the taste buds and tummy in the midst of a crowd of artists, fashionistas, and the filthy rich. Welcome to their newest joint, Kenmare, 98 Kenmare Street Street, at Mott in NYC.

At recent tastings, I sampled the organic chicken with smoke over fava beans. Think pork and beans but it’s actually chicken! Delish….Fish specials grace the menu every night, with a halibut on the regular menu that’s flakey and moist.  A soft shell crab over greens proved crispy and buttery in equal measure. The tuna tartare melts on your tongue. “I eat fish now!” Khan told me after decades as a proud self-proclaimed meat eater. The gnocchi with beef ragu fills you up with the comfort of mamma’s kitchen and the meatball sliders top the list of favorites too.

Desserts include baby cheese cannoli, filled by the pastry lady in the back kitchen, as well as a triple chocolate cake, and my personal favorite, a dulce de leche cake that feels like sweet heaven.

Who knew such a trendy place could taste so good?

Sexy intimate decor, and you can hear your date across the table too.

Brooklyn Museum Goes Wild!/photo by Steve MacDonald

Think all grand museum openings are civilized? Think again.

Last week the Brooklyn Museum opened “American High Style: Fashioning A National Collection.” Guests like Chloe Sevigny, designers Zac Posen and Diane Von Furstenberg, and artists like Rosson Crow, Rachel Feinstein, and John Currin, were offered knives to carve roasted meat laid out on tables and crackers to dig into hanging cheese heads. Truth be told, the cheese craniums stunk like hell!

As such began the carvnivores ball,  after the cheese and champagne cocktail, a third floor with center tables of roasted pig, lamb, and whole carcasses of crisp cooked rabbit.

Then, revelers retreated to the first floor where trendy store Opening Ceremony hosted a circus-themed dance party. Girls cut cherry blossoms for guests, designers like Philip Crangi crafted mouse ears, Rodarte designed one of the tents, trannies dressed as Karl Lagerfeld, and Naomi Campbell doled out fashion advice; and a half-dozen buff guys stripped naked for girls willing to sit in chairs before them.

All of this made the central opening exhibit on the fourth floor — gowns by Norman Norell, Halston, and others — seemed pale in comparison.  The memory rests with all naked body-builders (save G-strings) doing vulgar things on the ground floor. If you ask me, it’s the best testimony to wearing clothes that I’ve ever witnessed.

The Drop @ Last Days of Decadence, Shoreditch

The Drop is a 6-piece live roots reggae act formed in 2008 in the heart of London. They quickly built a reputation for infectious melodies and an authentic heavy roots sound. They hit the festival run last year sharing the stage with acts such as Speech Debelle, Babyhead and Smerins Anti Social Club. They’re currently planning a studio trip to record their first EP and are lined up for another busy year playing at 2010 music festivals.

‘Black and White Movement project’ Shadwell.

Alessi’s Ark @ Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, West London.

Alessi’s Ark is the musical project of Alessi Laurent-Marke, a singer-songwriter from Hammersmith, West London. Her forthcoming EP Soul Proprietor is due to release early next month.

Cradle to Grave @ The Natural History Museum, London

This current show at the NHM explores how people everywhere deal with tough realities of life and death.

The show contains personal objects, documents and photographs with captions written by the owners documenting important events throughout their life. Showing that maintaining well-being is more complex than just treating illness.

Spotted wearing the Hudson Jean Jacket in Janet