Who let Devendra Banhart in?

I'm pretty sure I saw Nelson Mandela working the coat check.

so the plebes got to watch from the bleachers while the famous people got to mingle? Is that like spectator partying or something?

Katrina vanden Heuvel personally supplied 2000 radish roses.

Tony 'n Tina's Atlantic Magazine Anniversary Celebration?

I don't get the concept.

At least Julia Sweeney is still getting work.

IF The Atlantic turns 200, the party will be held in a more appropriate place, like the Ruby Tuesday's at the Pentagon City Mall in Arlington, Virginia.

if they had just thrown a DC theme party in NYC where they poked more fun at themselves for living in the worst city ever, it could have worked.

Robin Byrd's alive!?

PJ O'Rourke is a good speaker, granted his laugh at the stats article in the anniversary issue was not his best, but I'll bet he'd be a blast to have at a party. NB: I cannot view this video from work

@mitchel_stevens: Define "alive."

I was at this party last night(and onstage) and I can tell you the "cocktails'' consisted of awful, watered down wine and the food was inedible. Left after like 10 mins, in search of dinner, unaware of the social apartheid taking place in my midst. I would've given away the red bracelet they gave out to the "haves'' in a second, had I known there were people clamoring to get into this idiotic event.

I am really psyched Robin Byrd was there. I would be willing to re-attend this party just to hear her and Bloomberg duet on "Let Me Bang Your Box"

@MattGaymon: Only if it could be videotaped by the same guy that used to film her singing it - you know, the rapid close-up/pan-out gimmik?

@plasticene: Are you PJ O'Rourke?

@Addison: I feel bad on the inside for watching the show in the first place, but then he goes and makes me seasick!

Are we sure it wasn't just Cheri Oteri?

p.s. @MattGaymon: That was beautiful!

You can take the magazine out of Boston but you can't take the Boston out of the magazine.

Also, holy crap! Does Georgette Mosbacher ever age?
Isn't she about 84 by now? That is some damn good work.
Damn good.

@GayatriSpivak: I'm pretty sure PJ knew he was at a divided event, so, sadly, no. But thanks!

Of course he didn't recognize Robin Byrd, she's white! Now if Tionna Smalls had attended Robert would have been all up in that cleavage.

I was at this too, Patti Smith was the redeeming element of the whole thing. Ad Age can go straight to hell, in my Blakean years.

@plasticene: Oh well. :(

Caitlin Flanagan knows that parties were better in the 50s, when the women stayed home and did nothing all day but service their manly men while the brown people washed the sheets.

I was there, and it was a fun event (if you were on stage, I suppose). Amazing to hear Patti Smith. Unfortunately, there was some chick from jossip who insisted on chatting throughout her entire set. (Like: where were these people raised?) A blogger, of course.

Well I'm glad I decided not to go to this. I wouldn't have wanted all those plebes staring at me.

Thursday's the night Sting, Tina, Declan, Sonny, Emily, and I play poker, so I'm afraid I wasn't invited.

Wow mdash; last night's 150th Anniversary party for the Atlantic magazine is sure taking heat for being weird and exclusive, owing to its high-concept theme of "Party As Performance Art" wherein the actual party took place on a stage...before a live audience.

I had tix but blew it off at the last minute. This certainly makes me glad i did.

Five days later, and that 150th anniversary party The Atlantic threw for itself last week -- the one where regular people were allowed to watch from the cheap seats while the real guests mingled on stage -- is still getting made fun of. Gawker called it "the social disaster of the season.&

As a former Atlantic employee (not the magazine itself, another publication) and onetime regular imbiber of Bradley-procured booze, this is disappointing. The holiday parties are much better. There the celebrities stand around talking to each other while the rest of us stand around talking to each other nearby. Works fine! It's also in DC. Why on Earth was this party in NYC? I can't sneak in so easily if it's up there.

Say what you will about Gothamist—their punctuation stinks, they cater to hipsters, they’re too heartfelt to blog—but they really do love this city. And so do we. Also, we might be hipsters with bad grammar.