In November 2006, writer David Rieff hired Charles (Bill) Hoffman to move dozens of pieces of art from the upstate town of Kingston down to Chelsea, including several original prints of photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz and a bunch of paintings that had belonged to his late parents, famed American essayist Susan Sontag and sociologist Read More
Hedge fund billionaires and powerful financial editors turned out Tuesday night to celebrate the release of Gregory Zuckerman’s The Greatest Trade Ever, which chronicles how John Paulson, a once-anonymous fund manager, bet against the housing bubble in 2007, winning big while nearly everyone else lost. One person, however, was noticeably absent from the night’s festivities. Read More
Ross Douthat, conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, was made visibly uncomfortable for a moment while onstage last night at the New School’s Tishman auditorium. Having sailed through a discussion titled “Meet the Neo-Cons: They’re Young, They’re Bright, They Tilt to the Right” alongside his friend and co-author Reihan Salam (Grand New Party: Read More
It is no coincidence that the logo for the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) inaugural Magazine Innovation Summit centered around an oversized capital ‘I.’ The Internet, innovation, and iDomination were high priorities for the event—a fact only further confirmed by the conference’s tagline, “technology changes everything.”
Held in the Grand Hyatt New York and the Read More
On Saturday night, at the Brooklyn Book Festival’s Gala Mingle, literary stars from Francine Prose to Colson Whitehead sipped white wine and chatted politely with one another about each other’s work, under the harsh glare of flourescent lights.
Indeed, where past years’ galas have been held in elegant digs at the historic Dime Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:35pm): Michael Douglas, Leighton Meester, Kid Cudi
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Antonio Banderas, Bill Hader, Chris Cornell
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, Read More
If you were one of the hundreds of people stuck on the corner of 59th Street and 5th Avenue trying to get into Bergdorf Goodman last night, don’t worry: the people inside the store didn’t see much more than you did.
The department store had a series of events scheduled throughout the Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:35pm): Matt Damon, Jack Hanna
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Dennis Quaid, Paolo Nutini
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Nick Cannon, Rod Blagojevich, White Lies Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Neil Patrick Harris, Steve Mazan, Edward Sharpe &the Magnetic Zeros.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Jennifer Connelly.
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Gerard Butler, Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Billy Crystal, John Fogarty.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Sandra Bullock, Gina Yashere.
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Kathie Lee Gifford, Milo Ventimiglia, R. Read More
