Shindigger

Dan Stevens

Social Calendar Anxiety: Tribeca Film Festival and Endless Galas Make Even the Savviest Socialites Say Uncle

After an all-too-brief West Coast jaunt to Palm Springs and La Jolla for spicy juice cleanses and grueling workouts, Shindigger returned to the New York scene just in time for what one exhausted publicist called “official gala week,” which happened to coincide with the social-calendar assault that is the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Big Apple Idolatry

James Franco: also plays guitar (Getty Images)

Big Apple Idolatry: James Franco Mad That No One ‘Wants to Publicize’ That ‘an Actor/Yale Doctoral Candidate’ is ‘Nominated For an Award’

– Ha, James Franco’s insane ramblings on HuffPost are now showing strong signs of histrionics:

Oh yeah, I got nominated for a National Entertainment Journalism award for these HuffPost blogs, but no other outlet is going to run that story, right? Hahaha–why would Gawker or The New York Post want to publicize that an actor/Yale doctoral candidate is nominated for an award for something that they are doing themselves? I’m pretty proud of it, but I can see why they must hate me.

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SMH

Did 50 Cent Kill World Star Hip Hop?

Rapper 50 Cent is taking credit for the mysterious shut down of hip hop news site WorldStarHipHop.com today on Twitter, and suggesting two more web sites might be coming down soon.

In November of 2009, 50 Cent filed a lawsuit against the site for using his image and content without his consent, according to Read More

Bloomberg and Two Bits

Here’s Michael Bloomberg discussing a report that the rapper “50 Cents” was planning a concert in Queens, a prospect which has prompted concern by the NYPD.

“Our understanding after talking with 50 Cents is he has no plans to perform whatsoever. He might go but he is not going to perform,” Bloomberg said.

Later, the Read More