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When the owners of dark and seductive Lower East Side restaurant Allen Delancey announced they'd be filling the position abandoned by chef Neil Ferguson with one Kyle Bailey, the general reaction was, Who? But the 28-year-old chef hasn't shown any hesitation about stepping into Ferguson's big shoes; or, rather, replacing them with his own inventive kicks, which emphasize the good ...

The other night my 10-year-old, Sam, was standing at the kitchen table painting a skull on the back of a worn out skateboard. He had removed the wheels and was desirous of affixing this work of art to his bedroom wall when it dried. Sam is partial to skull-emblazoned objects. He’s constantly asking me to buy him hats, shirts, and shorts (which fills the boys’ racks at Rich’s these days, for some reason) and shoes decorated with skulls."Why in Heaven’s name are you fixated on all these dark, ugl