On Monday, Dec. 17, hundreds gathered at the Metropolitan Pavilion on 18th Street to support Charity: Water, an organization founded by former club promoter Scott Harrison that sells 16 ounces of bottled water for 20 bucks, using the profits to provide clean well H20 to Africans in need.
“Even a year ago, I didn’t Read More
Although he swore otherwise, Richard Temtchine was trying to seduce me. “Seduction, it’s definitely an art form,” he explained, as a small plume of steam rose from his espresso. “You’ve heard of Cyrano de Bergerac?”
I nod my head unconvincingly and try to Google it in my head. How do you spell de Bergerac? Read More
A snarky report in on Page Six of Wednesday’s New York Post claimed that CNN publicists were scrambling this week to convince B-list guests to attend the network’s first ever "Hero’s Tribute," which took place last night at the Museum of Natural History, after first choices like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did not Read More
Yesterday evening at the Four Seasons, scores of well-dressed Manhattan women gathered to chat and mingle at the fifth annual Dinner & Dis(course) cocktail and dinner party. The event, organized by MediaBistro.com, drew together an array of female leaders in the magazine industry, along with one visibly uncomfortable male, Media Bistro associate editor Noah Read More
If you live in the east 60′s and you like sleeping in on Saturday mornings — too bad.
For the third Saturday in a row, locals were awoken by the shouts of protesters outside the E.65th street mansion of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman. The group, which calls itself the Campaign for Corporate Responsibility in Entertainment, Read More
This Thursday evening, a mix of Manhattan’s literati, business professionals, and foreign-policy wonks gathered at the Jewish-chic Soho Synogogue loft in downtown Manhattan to celebrate the release of Jared Cohen’s new book, Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East.
At 25, Mr. Cohen is the Bush administration’s Read More
Yesterday evening, journalists and newsy iconoclasts alike gathered at Graydon Carter’s uber-trendy, West Village bistro, the Waverly Inn, to celebrate the launch of Newser.com, Michael Wolff’s latest project, an innovative online news service that claims to "do the reading for you."
The site, which has been available in beta form since August but Read More
THE UNHEARD: A MEMOIR OF DEAFNESS AND AFRICA
By Josh Swiller
Holt, 265 pages, $14
Some people go to Africa to try to save the world. Others, like Josh Swiller, go to Africa to save themselves.
Josh Swiller lived what a stranger might consider a charmed life. From the cushiony comforts Read More
Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, who has become a fixture reporting from war zones around the world, was awarded a CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to journalism, the news channel announced. Wearing a large brown hat, a chic cream colored skirt suit, and a Read More
Last night, several hundred of New York’s most fashionably eco-aware gathered at the Museum of Natural History for a screening of CNN’s “Planet In Peril,” a two-part documentary reported by Anderson Cooper , Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Jeff Corwin, set to air on October 23rd and October 24th.
The guest list read like the Read More
