Media
On Monday,
New York mag will publish a long feature by Alexandra Polier. (Earlier this year, various media outlets claimed that Polier had had an affair with Presidential candidate John Kerry.)
More »
Media
You know, people, I do care about other things than human excrement. But of course all of New York is always concerned about sanitation at Conde Nast:
i was talking to one of my conde nasties and apparently the 15th floor ladies bathroom is the latest disgrace (or has been for sometime.) even worse than the 9th floor teen vogue/allure shithouse. of course notes/drawings/diagrams have been left (do these ever work? i assume people just wipe their ass with them) but no one is doing anything about the situation. toilet seats are off and it looks like downright third world in there.
Urges
By the way, you only have a few days left to get your fill of... sailors. Fleet Week ends Tuesday.
Fleet Week Events [New Yorkled]
Urges
FRIDAY
· The four-months-after-they-were-formed-were-signed-by-Sub-Pop wunderkinds,
The Thermals, will blow your mind tonight at North Six.
· So, all your friends are out of town? Don't sweat it! Now, no one will ever have to know about "the night when you flashed your titties and dry-humped the bouncer at the
Courtney Love look-alike contest" at Now Bar.
And while you're at it, why don't you also keep "the night you faked an orgasm in front of total strangers at
Porno Karaoke night" under wraps too...
· For all the tackily dressed, oversexed cokeheads that missed the 5:45 express out to the Hamptons tonight, fret you not: the
Loser
s Lounge Tribute to Prince opens today.
More »
Diary
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, and Walker, LLP lost a lawyer yesterday. He won't be returning, either, after his farewell memo. "In fact," he writes, "I dare say that I would rather be dressed up like a pinata and beaten than remain with this group any longer."
More »
Diary
Like
Erin O'Brien, the CAA assistant who was fired after her gushy "I work in Hollywood!" story circulated throughout the western world, the story of Ms. Poopy Pants couldn't have spread so far without eager emailers who were willing to spread it.
More »
Urges
Trapped in Manhattan this weeked? Don't worry, you won't be alone — after all, the housekeepers and doormen have to stay here, too.
More »
Diary
The weather appears to bite ass, but we'll still be bailing the hell out of Manhattan mid-afternoon with the rest of you. (Although, honestly? We might just skip the mad LIRR rush and take in an early showing of
Soul Plane, which is sure to be the
Citizen Kane of blacksploitation airline industry films. Seriously —
Soul Plane, we're thinking, may be the best summer offering on the docket. We're super-stoked about the silver screen triumph of that Snoopy Dog Dogg fella!)
More »
Diary
The
Story of Poopy Pants elicited lots of reader mail — not all of it friendly. In fact, this might be one of the best pieces of hate mail we've ever gotten. There's definitely a job in our offices for its writer whenever she wants.
More »
Diary
In case you
only read Gawker — in which case, you're fucked anyway — you've probably heard that you're suppose to prepare yourself for Massive Amounts of Imminent Terrorism. Like, now. Immediately. Whatever!
More »
TV
We're not naming names, unless the lady herself wants to come forward. We actually think she's a hero — I can't even
watch FOX without wanting to crap myself. Can't imagine what would happen to my own bowels if I attended one of their parties.
More »
Hot Spots
Earlier today, we graphed out the
NYT mentions of Balthazar over its seven-year history. But we forgot one important thing — cancelling out the
NYT site's search results for alleged actor Balthazar Getty! Doh! As you can see, when Mr. Getty is removed, the resulting graph forms a disturbing face. Surely this has some scientific meaning.
Thanks to Gawker guest-host and in-house statistician
Andrew Krucoff and graphics-lad Chris Gage for the corrections.
Seven Years of Balthazar in the 'New York Times' [Gawker]
TV
A conflicting report on Party Pooper,
the young woman who went straight for the open bar at the recent Fox upfront party with disastrous results — we had previously been assured that she wasn't fired for her night of hard drinking:
The girl in question was a Mediaedge employee, but she's been fired due to her unfortunate "accident".
Also, the
shit-faced
staffer
(sorry, couldn't resist) apparently
chose a white leather couch
to sit down upon as she did her dirty business, and said couch has since been (thankfully) thrown out by The Boathouse.
More »
Diary
· Michael Lewittes, news editor of the
Star, is asking for $1.3 million dollars in defamation damages — in part because a vindictive website referred to him as "that closeted editor of a certain paper," Page Six reports from court documents. I call bullshit. Could it be any more fucked up that insinuating a heterosexual is gay is a million-dollar offense? [
NYP]
· As we
reported on April 19th, a few Spence girls had a good stoney time on a class trip to D.C. Page Six goes the extra mile and names Seagram's heir Edgar Bronfman, Jr.'s daughter as a perpetrator in the incident. [
NYP]
· Lloyd Grove reports on conversations at Soho House, the press-shy hotspot — will the good English folk ban the gossip columnist? [
NYDN]
· Actress Lindsay Lohan's dad, famous for a recent family brawl, did jail time on three separate occasions. [
NYDN]
Real Estate
Chelsea — Manhattan's magical fairyland where the average rent for a 1-bedroom is $2,477 — is going straight, says the
NYT. Perhaps it's for the best — we're not even sure how to start making fun of this sentence:
On a recent Saturday, Mr. Skroupa and Mr. Wilson went out for brunch and "literally less than one-third of the restaurant was gay," Mr. Skroupa said last week, pausing between bench presses at a New York Sports Club on Eighth Avenue.
More »
TV
We've been following the story of a drunken young TV buyer who enjoyed herself immensely at the recent FOX upfront party at the Boathouse — so much so that she passed out, gashed her leg, crapped herself, and ended up in the hospital. We still haven't seen a copy of the circulating — and picture-filled! — email, and you
know we'd like to, so cough it up already. Anonymity guaranteed, natch.
Crapulent Fox Staffer Flushed At Upfronts? [Defamer]
TV
As you can tell from the lack of riots in the City last night, justice was served last night on
American Idol. (And believe me, we would have been the first out there. Besides, we haven't gotten any good looting in since 1991.)
More »
Fashion
The uptight
Daily Fashion Report mocks the fun-loving sleazesters over at IMG's
The Daily about yesterday's silly
Graydon Carter replacement poll. Says
DFR:
Perhaps a better poll would be just how long viewers think IMG will put up with Brandusa and her little band of "rabid tabloid scribblers" before they dump her. Brandusa was fired several years ago as publisher of Fashionwiredaily and she seems to have learned little from that experience.
More »
Hot Spots
SoHo hotspot Balthazar gets its two stars re-affirmed this week by food critic Amanda Hesser in the
NYT. (The original review, by Ruth Reichl, appeared on July 4, 1997.) The
New York Times website returns 287 search results for Balthazar. Henry the Obsessive Intern plots these
NYT mentions over time, and from his work we can see a couple of things:
More »
Media
The anonymous operator of
Cablenewser, one of our absolute favorite websites on the whole stupid internot, came out in today's
New York Times. Cablenewser, for those who don't know, is a really sick ratings- and bias-obsessed cable news (duh) weblog. Its mysterious writer? A badass 18-year-old college student in Maryland. Teen media nerds are the future! We salute you, young Brian Stelter.
The Ultimate Cable News Guru, When Not in Class [NYT]
CableNewser [CN]
Urges
Technology and the internet bring people together in new and exciting (and possibly felonious) ways — and Jessica, bless her, needs a drink:
Want to help a girl out?
Reply to: madcat816@yahoo.com
Date: 2004-05-26, 2:46AM EDTI'm going to be straightforward. I am 20 yr. old Arizona State U. student`I and was wondering if anybody wanted to sell me their id. I just want one to get in and out of the bars while I'm in NYC for the summer, and a friend told me that a real that doesn't look like you is better than a fake that does look like you. Naturally, if I get caught with it, you don't get in trouble, they just mail it back to your address. I'm 5'7, 150, blonde hair, brown eyes, and really tan ( Last id I had was a 230, 5'4, brunette with blue eyes from Illinois and it worked everywhere in AZ, Vegas and LA) So if you feel you can help out my situation, please email me. Thanks- Jessica
More »
Books
The first of what are
sure to be many corrections regarding
yesterday's item on
The Right Address are in. First, from
W's Rob Haskell:
I have never received a cashmere sweater, or a sweater of any kind, or any cashmere articles, from Tory Burch. (I do, however, love cashmere and Tory Burch.) Says Tory, with whom I'm on the phone right now: "You little jerk!"
More »
Gawker
