By Kat Stoeffel 2/14/12 4:24pm

off the record

Atlantic

The Atlantic Cover Story Traveling Dinner Series Makes Its First Stop in New York

Last night Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley had a couple dozen of New York’s non-fashion elite to dinner at Eleven Madison Park, kicking off a new monthly series that aims to capture the engagement with Atlantic cover stories demonstrated online by Facebook recommendations in a more intimate, in-person format.

Unlike the ill-fated salons proposed by The Washington Post in 2009, lobbyists can’t buy a seat at these off-the-record dinners; The Atlantic picked up the tab. The aim of the series, which may move to Los Angeles, Chicago, Silicon Valley, or Washington, D.C., depending on the cover story’s content, appears more earnest. Read More

By Foster Kamer 1/31/12 5:39pm

MOVIE TRAILERS

JULIANNE MOORE SARAH PALIN GAME CHANGE

Video: Julianne Moore’s Sarah Palin Impression on Display in ‘Game Change’ Trailer

Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s gossipy, somewhat controversial bestseller about the 2008 presidential campaign—filled with plenty of juicy Sarah Palin anecdotes—recently received the HBO adaptation treatment. Julianne Moore’s role as the former Governess of Alaska and vice-presidential would-be is one of the more highly anticipated actor-politician roles in recent Read More

By Una LaMarche 7/05/11 8:09pm

Opening Shot

Strauss-Kahn.

Strauss-Kahn Bids Adieu and Beck Does So Too

The fireworks have died down (hope you enjoyed the show, Jersey … better luck next year, Brooklyn and Queens) and all that’s left of this year’s patriotic festivities are the tiny flags littering the West Side Highway, the distended abdomens of the contestants in Nathan’s annual hot dog-eating contest and the sobering knowledge that, according to Read More

By Staff 5/15/06 1:26pm

Spitzer’s Non-Campaign Campaign Speech

It must be nice to be Eliot Spitzer right now.

At an appearance this morning in midtown at the Personal Democracy Forum, he gave a lengthy policy speech without once referring to the fact that he’s not technically governor yet.

Nor did that fact come up in a subsequent question-and-answer session with ABC Read More

By Staff 11/30/05 2:56pm

Sigmund’s Speculation

One interesting moment at yesterday’s New School campaignfest came at the end, when Mark Halperin asked for speculation on the 2009 Republican nominee.

Ray Kelly’s name was, of course, mentioned; but the guess that caught my attention came from Miller aide Steve Sigmund, who used to work for the AOL Time Warner Foundation: Dick Parsons.

By Staff 11/29/05 1:03pm

New School Post-Mortem

I’ve spent this morning at the New School, where two panels of senior aides to the five major Mayoral candidates went back over campaign decisions, first the primary and then the general election, steered by ABC News’s Mark Halperin.

The event featured a little news: Bloomberg aide Bill Cunningham says of Mike’s Read More