By Kim Velsey 1/25 10:03am

Manhattan Transfers

It's like a football field.

Alpha Kitty Atoosa Rubenstein Buys $8.8 M. Pad For Her Expanding Litter

Atoosa Rubenstein, everyone’s favorite cat lady, is moving her growing brood into bigger digs.

Ms. Rubenstein and commodities-trader husband Ari have purchased a palatial 4,300-square foot spread at 535 West End Avenue, city records show.

Ms. Rubenstein, the former whiz-kid editor of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL!, left the industry six years ago to start Big Momma Productions, a consultancy of sorts that appears to have done little other than maintain a vestigial web presence. Now she has three children, a rich husband and brand new condo on the Upper West Side. Read More

By Matt Haber 5/02/08 6:47pm

Letters to a Young Alpha Kitty

What would former Seventeen editor and CosmoGIRL! founding editor Atoosa Rubenstein tell her younger self if she had the chance? Many, many are the times we’ve asked ourselves just that question.

Thankfully, Ellyn Spragins, editor of the "What I Know Now" series offers us a chance to get inside an intimate Atoosa-to-Atoosa, time-warping tête-à-tête Read More

By Staff 1/03/07 11:39am

The New Atoosa: Ann Shoket named [em]Seventeen[/em] Editor

Today, Ann Shoket was named the new editor-in-chief of Seventeen, taking over for departed editor, and MySpace fanatic, Atoosa Rubenstein.

Full release after the jump.

NEW YORK, January 3, 2007 – Hearst Magazines President Cathleen P. Black today announced that Ann Shoket, executive editor of CosmoGIRL!, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Seventeen, Read More

By Staff 12/07/06 11:05am

James Brady Drops, Damages Names

Forbes and Parade chatter-hound James Brady reports today on his annual leg-humping trip to Hearst boss Cathie Black’s Christmas party. There was “TV’s gorgeous Deborah Norville,” “the tall, striking Atoosa Rubenstein,” “Ken Auletta…that wonderful writer,” “Kate White, blond and lovely”…

And then there was this other guy:

David Hershey, editor of Esquire, informed me Read More

By Sheelah Kolhatkar 10/24/05 12:00am

Did Atoosa Produce a Bonanza?

“Every time someone’s like, ‘I saw you on TV!’, I think, ‘Nooo!’” said Atoosa Rubenstein, the editor in chief of Seventeen magazine, covering her eyes. “I feel like a D-list reality star.” It was the evening of Monday, Oct. 17, and she was standing at a club called AER in the meatpacking district, clutching a Read More

By Staff 7/07/05 9:03am

The Great Fantastic Four Premiere Debacle

Last night’s Fantastic Four premiere, ambitiously slated for Liberty Island (perhaps inside the Statue of Liberty’s head?), could have used some superhero help as it went up in flames (or down in the rain).

Members of the press were herded in Battery Park, then boated to Liberty Island. A red carpet parade happened. (For the Read More