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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Matt Levine, designer turned club owner. Photo: Patrick McMullan We bring word of exclusive clubs all the time, so we were a little surprised by the barrage of comments — almost 100! — sparked by Jada Yuan’s interview with Matt Levine about the Eldridge. Fair is fair, so we’ve asked Levine to respond to them, but in the meantime, the one and only Craigslist Ko-thario also the creator...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Photo: Patrick McMullan So there we were, with Kirsten Dunst at last night's 303 Gallery party in Chelsea, jawing away about the things you normally talk about with a press-shy A-lister, when the actress abruptly changed the subject. "Actually, I'm gonna plug the documentary I'm directing," she announced. (So THAT'S why she agreed with talk to us. We tried not to look hurt.) "My friend...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., putting on a brave face. Photo: Patrick McMullan MEDIA • In an attempt to stay afloat as the economy withers, the New York Times is raising its cover price 25 cents, to $1.50. It's also cutting more jobs. "We have seen the effects of the deepening economic slowdown, particularly in categories sensitive to the price of oil — airlines, hotels, and autos — and we...
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Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Sigh. Photo: Patrick McMullan • An alleged sweatshop was busted in Queens yesterday. It made clothes for Express, Gap, Banana Republic, and Victoria's Secret, among others. [ WWD ] • Lauren Conrad doesn't really design her clothing line. Her creative director, Sherry Wood, who used to design Tart, does. Conrad reportedly was overheard telling her friends she can't even sketch....
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Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Photo: Patrick McMullan Isabel Toledo was shocked and thrilled to see Michelle Obama wearing one of her creations at the Vogue /Calvin Klein fund-raiser in June. “She looked amazing,” Toledo told us at F.I.T.'s Couture Council cocktail celebration at her penthouse loft. The best part was that Obama bought the dress at Ikram in Chicago. “I understand that she buys a lot of my work, which...
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Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Simon Doonan Photo: Patrick McMullan Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler will marry in California in mid-September, but don’t expect Vera Wang gowns and 300 guests doing the hora. “I always thought we were married, so I don’t feel like celebrating the fact that the government’s allowing me to think I’m married. It’s more like paying a parking ticket,” Doonan told us at a Couture Council...
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Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Phillip Bloch Photo: Patrick McMullan This fall, celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch will join forces with Vivica A. Fox for the VH1 reality contest Glam God in search of the next great celebrity stylist. Sounds like glorious, trashy fun. We can’t wait to see spoiled B-listers throw hissy fits after getting dressed in horizontal stripes or high-strung Rachel Zoe wannabes break down after...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Photo: Patrick McMullan Waverly Inn chef John DeLucie, whose upcoming memoir we told you about, sits down with BlackBook today and discusses, among other things, why the truffled macaroni and cheese got so much attention. At the time we started it, most restaurants that were doing truffles were charging considerably more than us, but they were calling their dish “Pasta con Tartufi Bianco.”...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Everyone says I love Jew Photo: Trump and Kushner, Patrick McMullan; yarmulke, Getty Images Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are back together, "Page Six" informs us today, after breaking up in April. THANK GOD. Imagine what those four long, lonely months must have been like! We know we did: Jared: Playing solitary Ping-Pong in his lonely bachelor apartment, intermittently sniffing a bottle...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Philip Falcone and John Paulson Photo: Reuters, Patrick McMullan It's been a grim year for hedge funds, but today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at a few of the hedgies who "tore it up" last year (uh, Journal ?) and found that some of the guys who made big money in 2007 have come back for seconds. Below, the lucky few. John Paulson : Earlier this year, the Queens native — who directed...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The downstairs DJ booth. Photo: Patrick McMullan. Balthazar is no longer the go-to for late-night eats in Soho. Two weeks from now Delicatessen will be open 24 hours a day, just like its sister restaurant Cafeteria . Around 11:30 p.m. last night there were a couple dozen folks in the breezy dining room — a mix of Chelsea homoflexuals and girls dressed for the meatpacking district. Buffa’s...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
[caption] Photo: Patrick McMullan Before we watched the opening-night Broadway performance of [title of show] , we had a bunch of snappy questions ready about the musical's inherent narcissism, but after witnessing the cast taking tearful bows to a packed and equally tearful audience last night, we only wanted to talk about feelings . "It's like a bucking bronco!" screamed musical director...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Photo: Patrick McMullan We don't think we're alone when we admit that, in the past, addiction memoirs have kind of made us want to do drugs. Like Go Ask Alice . Remember how our heroine did drugs that looked like candy, got thin, ran away to San Francisco, and opened a hippie store? That sounded pretty cool to us, although that was not the intention of the teachers who handed it out...
