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Sundance Celebs Show Their Spirit Shwag

You know about spirit animals right? Like our spirit animal is the Honey Badger, because it doesn’t give a shit and it can eat bees without getting sick, just like us. Read More

By Ted Gushue 1/22/12 2:54pm

Sundance Film Festival

Bing Presents Comedy With Aziz Ansari And A Drake Performance At The Bing Bar - 2012 Park City

Turf Wars, Lil Jon And The Josh Hartnett Sundance Stink Eye

Day 2 of the Sundance Film Festival found The Observer snowbound in the extreme. We’re talking enough snow to give Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City transit system nightmares. Astronomic surcharges became the norm as Park City’s anemic livery force struggled to even make the most ludicrous time frames: ”Yeah I can have a guy up there in like 3 and a half hours?” deadpanned one audacious taxi dispatcher, who seemed to take pleasure in seeing so many city slickers squeal. Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/13/11 4:27pm

Fashion Week

Congratulations, Nicki Minaj: You Win the Fashion Week Ubiquity Award

“It’s Lady Gaga!” Anna Dello Russo, the editor of Vogue Nippon, exclaimed as a woman dressed like a cartoon candy-cane walked onto the runway at the Prabal Gurung show. But it wasn’t Lady Gaga, who hasn’t made a Fashion Week appearance in a few seasons (despite popping up on tip sheets from time to Read More

By Meghan Keane 8/16/11 7:30pm

movies

30 Minutes or Less: A Bank Heist With Extra Cheese

Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in ’30 Minutes Or Less.’

“30 Minutes or Less” is the wish-fulfillment fantasy that generations of slacker pizza delivery guys have been waiting for. The rest of the world may look down on the stoners who deliver their pies, but Jesse Eisenberg is Read More

By Nate Freeman 8/01/11 10:01am

The Daily Transom

L.A.-Bound Aziz Ansari Hits East Village Before Saying Goodbye To All That

Thus far into 2011, Aziz Ansari has not been shy about imposing his presence on New York City. He stuck by his buddy James Murphy’s side as he closed the curtain on his band, LCD Soundsystem. He chilled with half-naked dudes next to GQ editor Jim Nelson at The Ace Hotel. And we Read More

By Nate Freeman 4/05/11 11:33pm

The Wee Hours

New York I Love You But You're Keeping Me Up Too Late

James Murphy was standing with a bottle of Champagne, two flutes dangling between his fingers and a full glass in his other hand. He swerved. It was nearly 4 in the morning. He had just played the final show fronting LCD Soundsystem, and the band and friends had taken over the gold-coral vestibules of the Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/15/11 7:54pm

Fashion Week 2011

Is Aziz Ansari Fashion Week’s Most Ubiquitous Party Guest?

Last September Russell Simmons was everywhere. The Chanel opening in Soho, Charlotte Ronson’s after party, Alexander Wang’s after party, Tommy Hilfiger’s bash at the Metropolitan Opera, the Dom Perignon-sponsored blowout at Villa Pacri — Russell Simmons was inescapable. His Fashion Week stamina was such that The New York Times indulged Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/11/11 11:34pm

Fashion Week 2011

Aziz Ansari Sizes Up the Male Models at the GQ Best Designers Party

Last night at The Ace Hotel we found ourselves staring at a bevy of half-naked male models standing silent and still for hours.

“I heard they’re all on mushrooms,” a partygoer told The Observer.

We hoped they were, given how long they had to play mannequin. It was GQ‘s Best New Menswear Designers party, and Read More

By Nate Freeman 1/20/11 6:46pm

Aziz Ansari Explains How A TwitPic Sent Him to Tokyo

Aziz Ansari, the reigning funniest man on the planet, is not one to be trusted on Twitter. For instance, last week he spent the day fake-retweeting Whole Foods and L.L. Bean (the clothier never said “your comedy sucks dick Aziz”).

But when he told his 600,000 followers of a trip to Tokyo with LCD Read More

By Christopher Rosen 4/10/09 3:56pm

Parks and Recreation: Like The Office but… Well, Just Like The Office

After NBC spent months telling us that Parks and Recreation was in no way a spin-off of The Office, despite coming from “the people who bring you The Office”, co-starring former Office star Rashida Jones, and being shot in a faux-documentary style with no laugh track, the series premiered last night, and, you know what? Read More

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Sundance Celebs Show Their Spirit Shwag

Turf Wars, Lil Jon And The Josh Hartnett Sundance Stink Eye

Congratulations, Nicki Minaj: You Win the Fashion Week Ubiquity Award

30 Minutes or Less: A Bank Heist With Extra Cheese

L.A.-Bound Aziz Ansari Hits East Village Before Saying Goodbye To All That

New York I Love You But You're Keeping Me Up Too Late

Is Aziz Ansari Fashion Week’s Most Ubiquitous Party Guest?

Aziz Ansari Sizes Up the Male Models at the GQ Best Designers Party

Aziz Ansari Explains How A TwitPic Sent Him to Tokyo

Parks and Recreation: Like The Office but… Well, Just Like The Office

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