By Kim Velsey 9/24/12 4:04pm

Manhattan Transfers

No doubt Ms. Sorvino wanted more space for her growing brood. (people.com)

Mighty Aphrodite! Mira Sorvino Sells UWS Penthouse For $1.7 M.

It must have been love, but it’s over now between actress Mira Sorvino and her two-bedroom, two-bath co-op at 200 West 79th Street.

The actress has sold her airy duplex penthouse for $1.725 million, according to city records. It was a rather laudable performance, especially considering that Ms. Sorvino had the apartment listed for only a little over a month at $1.7 million with Prudential Douglas Elliman broker William Postrion. Bravo! Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 10:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Mira Sorvino

To Do Sunday: Social Services

If there’s one force that can affect social change, it’s a bunch of tech types ripped away from their computers and interfacing with one another. Inspired, perhaps, by the monumental leaps forward the TED conference has given our society, the Social Good Summit, presented by web concern Mashable, overlaps with the United Nations’s General Assembly Read More

By Rex Reed 7/11/12 10:01am

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Blanchard and Sorvino in Union Square.

Girl Talk in Union Square: Blanchard and Sorvino Overcome Stale Story to Deliver Praiseworthy Performances

The acting in Nancy Savoca’s Union Square is so strong it almost makes you forget what a total zero the rest of this undernourished little throwaway film really is. Like another overpraised female director, Lynn Shelton, and her latest chamber-music tedium, Your Sister’s Sister, this lazy little tone poem about two rival and disparate sisters is a talkathon going nowhere. Nothing worth repeating is ever uttered, and nothing worth remembering ever happens. Mercifully, it is over in 80 minutes. Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 12:00am

Bark Avenue

Neighbors of Paul Sorvino may be rejoicing-and sleeping better-now that the veteran actor has sold his East 87th Street penthouse. City records show that earlier this year, Mr. Sorvino, 65, unloaded his 1,900-square-foot penthouse at 110 East 87th Street for $2.1 million. According to the New York Post , Mr. Sorvino’s daughter Amanda had lived Read More