Australia’s given us some of our best stars: Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Paul “Crocodile Dundee” Hogan, Cate Blanchett… So we’re eager to attend the New 42nd Street Gala, which is honoring the Australia Council for the Arts for creating theatrical works for young kids. (You don’t need to be in Perth to see them: the Read More
Alec Baldwin’s 30 Rock character, Jack Donaghy, was revealed in a 2010 episode to have recorded every word of the English language onto a university linguistics department website in order to preserve American diction for future generations.
And, though he hasn’t yet been named a General Electric executive, Mr. Baldwin’s putting the show’s surrealist plots into action. Read More
Just like the rest of us, Wall Streeters have to blow off steam somehow, and those not interested in Glenlivet or high-end gentlemen’s clubs may choose to rock out (for charity). Two amateur bands composed of bank types, Stone Hedge and The Subscribers, are to take the stage at the charitable Wall Street Rocks Battle Read More
The beloved Alamo Drafthouse–the movie theater that combines table service of beer and food with a strictly-enforced no talking policy–is headed to Brooklyn, Eater reports. Read More
Kate Middleton is reportedly pregnant. Read More
Katie Holmes will have the night of December 17 off from her Broadway play, Dead Accounts–maybe she can head a bit uptown and check out the nostalgic films that made her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, so beloved for a time. Read More
Much-maligned restaurateur Guy Fieri–he of the midtown eatery Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, lambasted in these pages–has met sad-clown rapper Drake, and the pair cooked up a… maroon-and-yellow-looking dish, flavored with Donkey Sauce and Drake’s tears over Rihanna. Rap-Up reports that the photo, taken by Instagram user wordonrd, took place at Read More
Wealth managers Alexandra Lebenthal and Michelle Smith know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em, and they host a quarterly women’s poker club to show off exactly how good they are at high-stakes betting. Among their fellow poker players, who find Maserati of Manhattan a more relaxing and pleasant staging ground than Read More
The gang’s all back–Girls, which returns on January 13, has released the first footage of the new season in a breezy trailer that promises new developments for all four. Hannah (Lena Dunham) is single and enjoying life; Marnie (Allison Williams) is single, fired and being told off by her mom (Rita Wilson!!); Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) Read More
One of New York’s most welcome and low-key holiday traditions arrives today with the 68th annual lighting of Park Avenue’s fir trees, a tradition that began just after World War II. Not for Upper East Siders the hullaballoo of the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting, with its celebrities and vertiginous height; the manageably petite Park Avenue firs Read More
