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By Drew Grant 11/29/11 11:42am

Peter Facinelli (Photo via Patrick McMullen)

Peter Facinelli Speculates On ‘Breaking Dawn’ Seizures At Gotham Independent Film Awards After-Party

“We love you in American Horror Story,” we gushed to recently-outed actor Zachary Quinto last night. We were at the Andaz Hotel, where directors, producers, and actors (along with alcohol sponsors) gathered to toast the winners of Gotham Independent Film Awards, held earlier that evening at Cipriani’s. We had cornered Mr. Quinto, whose movie Margin Call was nominated for Best Ensemble Performance (though it lost out to Beginners).

“I’m only going to be on one more episode,” the ethereally attractive actor told us. Read More

By Drew Grant 11:20am

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Naomi Wolf Arrested in Confrontation Between Police and HuffPo Protesters [Video]

Last night as we approached Huffington Post’s Game Changers party at the Skylight Soho, we heard a commotion across the street. It seemed like Occupy Wall Street had made its way uptown…but why were they picketing Arianna Huffington? Were the restless legions of unpaid bloggers finally coming home to roost? Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/11/11 7:36pm

The Eight-Day Week

A scene from Alexander Payne's The Descendents, which closes the New York Film Festival.

Curtain Closes on New York Film Festival in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, October 10

Lucy Liu by the Numbers

In New York, a night can often be of two minds—two disparate occasions, with opposite crowds, on far-off edges of Manhattan. Take Wednesday, for example. Lucy Liu is having friends over to the Tory Burch boutique, a tony edifice up on Madison Avenue, to celebrate Seventy Two, Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/04/11 7:07pm

The Eight-Day Week

Bill Clinton Walks Over to the Mondrian Soho in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, October 5

Walk It Off

El Camino de Santiago is an ancient religious pilgrimage that for centuries has led Christians to a cathedral in northwestern Spain. It’s said to be the final resting place of Saint James. It’s also the subject of a new film, The Way, starring Martin Sheen Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/27/11 7:29pm

The Eight-Day Week

Amanda Hearst, chair of the Whitney's studio party.

New York’s a Carnival in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, September 28

Hip Hop for Haiti

As we head into October, New York again braces itself for the annual autumn spree of charity functions. And though the foundations vary, representing any number of worthy causes, it still seems you can’t go a week in this town without a benefit Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/20/11 7:38pm

The Eight-Day Week

Parties Heat Up as Weather Cools Down in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, September 21

Hint of Limelight

The dog days are over. The lounging by the pool, the summer Fridays, the Hamptons benefits: all things of the past. And what better way to get back in the metropolitan mood than to recall all those Read More

By Molly Fischer 7/27/10 10:41pm

Fashion’s Night Out: You Will Sing For Your Leather Leggings

Fashion’s Night Out, noted charity event in support of buying things, returns for its second go-round this fall. The excitement will include not one but two major television appearances, so surely this September 10th will be even grander than the last. But what will this year’s shopping festivities themselves involve? Fashionista has Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/17/10 10:03pm

The Future

Squeals, Buzz and Barcodes as Magazine Types Gather for Technology Show and Tell

Adobe senior business development manager Gary Cossimini had 35 minutes yesterday to show off his company’s New York Times reader at the Magazine Publishers of America technology conference, “The Technology of Magazine Content: From Augmented Reality to Tablets.”

The room was peppered with representatives from magazines, media companies and ad agencies. Some Read More

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Peter Facinelli Speculates On ‘Breaking Dawn’ Seizures At Gotham Independent Film Awards After-Party

Naomi Wolf Arrested in Confrontation Between Police and HuffPo Protesters [Video]

Curtain Closes on New York Film Festival in the Eight-Day Week

Bill Clinton Walks Over to the Mondrian Soho in the Eight-Day Week

New York’s a Carnival in the Eight-Day Week

Parties Heat Up as Weather Cools Down in the Eight-Day Week

Fashion’s Night Out: You Will Sing For Your Leather Leggings

Squeals, Buzz and Barcodes as Magazine Types Gather for Technology Show and Tell

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