Comebacks

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Artie Lange’s Big Crack-Up

“If I had abs,” said the comedian Artie Lange as he held his medicine ball-sized paunch in his hands, “I would be dead.”

The former Howard Stern sidekick was sitting inside the new Varick Street studio that is home to The Nick & Artie Show, the sports-and-comedy talk show on Sirius Radio and DirecTV that he co-hosts with fellow comedian Nick DiPaolo. He was cradling his gut, pointing at the scars where nearly three years ago, in his Hoboken home, he took a 13-inch Wolfgang Puck kitchen knife and stabbed himself repeatedly: Six times with hesitation. Three times with conviction. Read More

Wolfgang Puck Doesn’t Know David Chang

This morning we caught up with mega-chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck at the New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards where he presented Ruth Reichl with an award for her achievements as Gourmet’s editor-in-chief.

Naturally we asked Los Angeles-based Mr. Puck if he’s had any exceptional dining experiences while visiting our celebrity Read More

Budget Fund-Raisers with Hillary

Hillary Clinton's supporters have said that her fund-raising strategy in the second quarter, by contrast with the glitzy big-name events that followed the campaign’ launch, will feature a greater number of smaller-dollar and smaller-crowd events.

Yesterday in Los Angeles, she held a rare single-constituency fund-raiser – it was exclusively for women — at Read More