The Eight-Day Week

Alexandra Lebenthal

To Do Monday: Poker Faces

Wealth managers Alexandra Lebenthal and Michelle Smith know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em, and they host a quarterly women’s poker club to show off exactly how good they are at high-stakes betting. Among their fellow poker players, who find Maserati of Manhattan a more relaxing and pleasant staging ground than Read More

An Unbroken Series of Successful Gestures

(Jason Seiler)

Meet The Gatsbabies! Preening Prepsters Lure Ladies, Lucre and Limelight in Merry Manhattan

The girls, so many girls, dressed in pastel-colored wraps that bared shoulders and the swells of their cleavage, clacked their Louboutin heels up a SoHo staircase one muggy May evening.

At the landing, visibly breathless and sweaty, their eyes lit up. They had entered the penthouse loft of Edward Scott Brady, the boyishly handsome world traveler, former classical cello virtuoso and “retired entrepreneur,” who was throwing a “Welcome Back Bash” to honor his return from his seventh trip around the globe. Read More

Occupy Wall Street

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GuestofaGuest.com Wins ‘Most Confusing Coverage of Occupy Wall Street’ Award

GuestofaGuest.com, Rachelle Hruska‘s New York social diary, doesn’t usually cover grimy protesters down at Zuccotti Park. (Your much more likely to read about those parties thrown by the 1% of banker/investor types Occupy Wall Street is protesting.)

But this morning’s face-off with the police was a New York City event – if not a fashionable one, an event nonetheless – and GuestofaGuest dedicated a portion of its site to the activity. (They even spent an entire section of their slideshow quoting from New York Observer senior editor Foster Kamer‘s Twitter.) We just are wondering if what they went with was really the best choice for a title: Read More