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Reluctance and Distaste at The Webutante Ball
Last night, the country's media-tech-social scene collided in something called The Webutante Ball. Instead of forging an alternate universe in a Big Bang-esque explosion, it thankfully existed for one evening atop the Empire Hotel. We braved it for you.
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The Gossip Gangs of New York
Page Six gossip Paula Froelich's first novel is concerned with a certain set of New York ladies in crisis, Mercury in Retrograde (she may be among them, as a "composite"). So surely other "composites" were in attendance at her book party last night.
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Youth Still Totally Against Fascism: Sonic Youth's Most Adorable Record Release Party
Marking the release of their my-god sixteenth album on Friday at Home Sweet Home, Sonic Youth brought out a few bands to play covers of their own songs and wear great outfits and pretend they didn't like talking to reporters. Pictures by Nikola Tamindzic and our story continues. More »
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Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday.
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Meet Leah Culver and her circle of ex-boyfriends
Programming Django isn't quite the same as dropping Dorothy Parker quips at lushed-out parties, but Pownce cofounder Leah Culver's line last night warmed even my cynical heart. Scene: We were mobbed briefly around the photo booth at 330 Ritch, former gay bathhouse and setting for the public launch of Yahoo's location-based mobile social thing, Fire Eagle. "Melissa, I want you to meet Cal Henderson," she said, presenting Flickr's head of engineering. "He's a fan ..." More » -
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The Making Of Julia Allison
Wired magazine's special issue on micro-celebrity includes a cover profile of Julia Allison, the college dating columnist who's garnered such internet fame. (Well, actually, the cover of Wired is about as much attention as she's ever drawn, so the article is self-fulfiling.) Anyway, I didn't remember the reported anecdote of my "meeting" with the then-editor of Gawker to demand coverage of this protostar; a trawl through the archives was called for. Here—in email, blog posts and comments—are those fateful days in late 2006 that gave the web Julia Allison. More »
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Live from the Girl Geek Dinner
Our correspondent Melissa Gira and former contributor Megan McCarthy have successfully infiltrated the controversial Girl Geek Dinner, and pictures will be plentiful if this first photograph is any indication. Updates as they come in via SMS. More » -
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Diablo Cody's Birthday: Bunnies, Bouncy Castles And New Kids On The Block
On June 14, our girl Diablo Cody turned the big 3-0. Being the Gemini minx that she is (she shares a star sign with Anna and Dodai, who were born on the 19th and 3rd, respectively), Diablo, the brunette in the center of this photo, couldn't let such an occasion pass without a truly bitchin' party to mark this momentous date. So she secured the Playboy mansion as the site of her debauchery, declared the evening to be pirate-themed, and erected a bouncy castle in her own honor. Though we could not make it to L.A. to attend the party, we sent a Jezebel mole in our place to snap some pics. Courtney Love performed, Lily Allen partied, the New Kids preened and the Grotto was probably peed in. Check out more photographic evidence after the jump! [Jezebel] -
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The Insider's Guide To The Tribeca Film Festival
Forget the movies. As any veteran festival goer knows, all the work is done at the parties, where film industry players swap their views on movies nobody has seen. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival—a recent and upscale addition to the movie maker's annual peregrination which starts this week—is no different. The party timetable is usually a closely guarded document, passed around in email with a strict injunction against sharing with the hoi polloi. Here's what we think of that. First, the grid; then, below, the list of publicists you need to bully or cajole.
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Gay Book Party Turns Surprisingly Catty!
The anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys—about gays and the girls who love them— was feted last night at a Midtown East bar, one of those places that you go to after your long, hard day working as a commodities trader, unbutton an extra button on your blue Oxford shirt, and drink yourself into a stupor. And if you're lucky, maybe grope a skank or three. What an odd place to have a party for the gays, as our photographer Nikola Tamindzic and I found out.
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'Bachelor Party Confidential'
David Boyer's first book was about gay kids going to prom, so perhaps it makes sense that his second is about the ultimate straight-man fantasy, the bachelor party. But one with very distinct homoerotic overtones, let's not forget! Last evening, Doree and photographer Nikola Tamindzic braved the sleaze of the Pussycat Lounge to see what Bachelor Party Confidential was all about. More »
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The National Magazine Awards
Doree and Nikola put on their fancy clothes last evening for the National Magazine Awards, where editors and publishers swill champagne and pat each other on the back for several hours.
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The 'Paris Review' Revel 2007
Doree and Nikola headed to the Puck Building last night for a Paris Review fundraiser. Their account, and photos, follow.
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Sante D'Orazio Understands Models
Fashion photographer Sante D'Orazio looks a lot like a late-in-life Dustin Hoffman all kitted out as a 70s Miami hustler. The buttons on his shirt rarely make it north of his solar plexus. And yet, he is almost always surrounded by naked models. His latest book, KatLick School, came out with its own party late last year. On Saturday night, at the just-opened second floor lounge of the Bowery Hotel, Sante's KatLick exhibition at the Stellan Holm Gallery was toasted. This kind of thing could go on forever, the book, the gallery show, the video game, the sudoku book. That the world likes to look at naked women isn't a secret, but it is Sante's secret to success. We brought our tape recorder to make this into an art project! More »
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A Party: Diesel Sells The Tastemakers On 55DSL
Last night Doree and camera-man Nikola Tamindzic headed to deep Greenpoint for a party celebrating the opening of the Manhattan 55DSL store. (See how that works now?) 55DSL is Diesel's younger, cheaper line, and so they got a big yellow schoolbus to ferry people from the store over the water to Studio B, where they could revel in sharing the evening with hundreds of their closest friends who looked exactly like them and listen to the British band Klaxons do their dance-music thing. Nobody danced. They just stood around looking cool. Then they went back to Manhattan, where we hear that the after-party at Hiro Ballroom was "okay." The kids are so verbal.
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Team Party Outing: The Ruff Club
The Ruff Club observed its first anniversary at The Annex on Friday night. Apparently it is a London-style "nu-rave" party. (It's all electroclash to us!) Our own Dr. Nightlife, Phil Oh, delivers the narrative captions, and Nikola Tamindzic provides the terrifying visuals. (His gallery is here, and ours is here). We can't believe what the kids are wearing today. (We couldn't believe it in Williamsburg in 1999 either!) More »
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Party RSVP: Ed Banger Records Party At Hiro
Nightlife photographer Nikola Tamindzic and correspondent Phil Oh met the kids of today last night at Hiro at the Maritime Hotel. You know what happened? They had a good time. And so did everyone's fave ANTM crazy cat Shandi. Maybe irony is dead! Our gallery here; Nikola's here. More » -
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'New York' Mag's Oscar Party, Part Two
Our day-after breakdown of last evening's New York mag Oscar party at the Spotted Pig was so brutally detailed, we had to take a break and come back. In this second and final installment, the gals learn who Bill Hemmer is, discuss the spelling of former Jane editor Jauretsi Saizarbitoria's name (she's pictured, sparklingly, at right), and contemplate using the Spotted Pig as an apartment. More » -
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Team Party RSVP: 'New York Magazine' Oscar Party @ The Spotted Pig
Last night, you watched the Oscars from your couch with a bucket of Cheez Things. Gawker editor Emily Gould and Gawker associate editor Doree Shafrir watched the Oscars at the Spotted Pig with people from reality TV and the bitchy queens of New York magazine, while Gawker photographer Nikola Tamindzic took lovely pix. Jealous much? Well, don't be: it was damn hard to see the show over all those people's heads. (Ooo, sort of a pun!) But Doree and Emily did make some fun new friends at the party, like ganja-toking socialite Arden Wohl (pictured above with a pregnant pal). And they even made it home in time to catch John Travolta's bizarre allusion to his queenliness. The first half of their epic postgame IM convo is after the jump. More »
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See Amanda Lepore's Chest Not Quiver!
As exciting as still photos of Amanda Lepore and her incredibly firm chest may be, they lack the heaving frisson that video conveys. Fortunately, Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley was also on hand for last night's Heaven to Hell book signing and after party. Above, the signing itself. What follows is the afterparty video, at Plumm. It's like Blue States Lose come to life! (A modern Xanadu!) And now Amanda Lepore is banned. For the day. More » -
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Team Party Crash: David LaChapelle's 'Heaven to Hell'
Now that Britney and Lindsay have retired from crotch shots, it's time someone filled the unwanted nudity void. And who better to do so than incredibly overexposed trannie Amanda Lepore and her rock hard nipples? As punishment for their sins, we sent Intern Stephanie and the one-and-only Nikola Tamindzic to Taschen's SoHo store where photographer-music video director-celebrity loverboy David LaChapelle and his favorite shemale gal pal autographed copies of his most recent collection, Heaven to Hell. View our gallery here or Nikola's here. More » -
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Team Party Crash: "Reno 911!: Miami" Premiere @ Tribeca Cinemas Gallery
If we were even slightly lamer than we are, we would start this post by saying "Freeze! Put your hands in the air...if you LOVE Reno 911!" But we're not that lame. We, like, totally rule. So we won't say that. We'll just mention that it's not every day that someone makes a movie based on a TV show without at least having Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson involved, so we were very excited to see that Reno 911!: Miami, coming out this Friday, was completely Stillson free. It's also not every day that you get to see the host of Clean House walking down Miami beach in a Baywatch one-piece and a fat suit. Style Network, HOLLA! After the jump, Kate photographs the Tribeca Cinema Series screening of Reno 911!: Miami, and Gabriel Delahaye does not review the movie.
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Team Party Crash: The Lonely Hearts Kegger
While the couples of New York were enjoying their reservations at Gramercy Tavern and anticipating late nights filled with champagne, strawberries, and edible panties, some singles were trying to figure out how to celebrate Valentine's Day without involving their friends Ben & Jerry. Enter an invitation to the Hollywould/Seize Sur Vingt Lonelyhearts Kegger. More » -
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Team Party Crash: 'Because She Can' Book Party
Last night, Gawker photographer Nikola Tamindzic and Emily Gould hit Matt and Marisa Brown's luxe Soho loft—that's her on your left—to celebrate the publication of Gawker Book Club pick Because She Can, the roman a clef that's "not" about Judith Regan. After the jump, Emily meets theliterary elitepeople who went to Harvard with Bridie. More »
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Fashion Week: Misshapes @ Don Hill's
For the third and final stop on the Saturday night fashion week party circuit, we were posed with the challenge of infiltrating the largely underage hipsterfest otherwise known as Misshapes at Don Hill's. Such an operation seemed daunting at first thought, but we were in so quickly that we couldn't wait to leave. (read: Editorial Assistant Heather spent more time hailing a cab outside than she did in the building itself, leaving Gawker snaparazzo Nikola Tamindzic to fly solo.) Enjoy our Misshapes album and Nikola's longer gallery here. More » -
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Fashion Week: Tracy Reese
Gawker editor Emily Gould joined forces with Gawker photographer Nikola Tamindzic for the first time ever — that's right, that is just how good Emily is at getting out of doing the "hard part" of her job — for Sunday's Tracy Reese show. After the jump, Emily divulges the gory details of her virgin voyage into fashion's hellmouth (turns out, she has something in common with models after all: she trips and falls on the runway, too!) More » -
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Fashion Week: Carlos Campos Afterparty @ Aspen
Ah, Fashion Week: Nasal passages erode like endangered sane dunes, therapists are tortured with anxiety-ridden calls regarding wardrobe selection, and both podiatrists and Mo t & Chandon executives can literally smell the revenue coming in. This is the kind of shit we live for. As part of our saturation coverage, we spent our Saturday evening experiencing the Carlos Campos afterparty at Aspen. We recognized precisely no one, the publicists were less than helpful at locating the designer, the bar line was entirely too long and the people in attendance were almost, but not quite gorgeous. Self-importance seems to be the drug of choice with this crowd, and most of the people we spoke to didn't even realize it was a party for some dude who designed some obscure line of menswear. Still, it resulted in some nice shots for Gawker soul-stealer Nikola Tamindzic. You can expect continuous coverage of New York City's Greatest Week Ever until all the models go home. More »
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Jeremy Kost Party Better-Documented Than Most
It was a party for a photographer, seemingly attended solely by photographers. We made a video of people photographing themselves and each other at this party. Hit play and then take a picture of your computer. If you send it to us and we post it, maybe we'll create some kind of rift in the space/time continuum. More » -
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Team Party Crash: Jeremy Kost: 'Not a Play Area' @ Soho Grand
Once every kabillion years, there appears a photographer who captures the imagination and fickle eye of an ADD-afflicted public: Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, Richard Avedon. Wait. Did we say once every kabillion years? We meant more like a heavy handful of times over the past couple of decades. ANYWHO! Every now and again, a young shutterstud firmly, if not a bit daintily, tosses his gauntlet into the arena of the super-fantastic celebrity and pop culture photographers. Last night, we sent the ever intrepid Angelina and He-Bring-the-Party Party Photographer Nikola Tamindzic to the SOHO Grand to bear witness to such and event: the opening of Jeremy Kost : Not a Play Area. Their verdict after the jump. More »
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Team Party Crash: 2oh5 Tuesday @ 205
Remember Jessica Pilot, the perky publicist whose penchant for donuts so captured the fancy of our Nikola Tamindzic? Well, last evening she held the first of her weekly "2oh5" parties in the basement of briefly shuttered coke canteen 205. Nikola showed up to capture the meeting of local hip hop retards with local hipster retards. Enjoy our gallery, and sample the full Tamindzic here. More » -
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Team Party Crash: Farce of the Penguins Release Party @ Tenjune
Contrary to popular belief, sometimes we actually turn up to parties unannounced. Last night was such an occasion: Editorial Assistant Heather and her trusty sidekick Kate got wind of the DVD release party for Farce of the Penguins, Bob Saget's star-studded parody of March of the Penguins. Acting as if they belonged, our girls marched straight past the clipboard-wielding meanies to the open bar where they managed to mingle with the likes of Tracy Morgan, Lewis Black, Gilbert Gottfried, Neel Shah (seriously, does that guy ever go away?) and Mr. Danny Tanner himself. Take a look through our gallery of goodness here (NSFW if you're a penguin, or a zoologist, though), and for an extra uh, treat, check out the viral videos of fake penguin porn here. More »
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'Vice' Finds Own Medicine Hard to Swallow
We love it when cooler-than-thou magazines get caught in unpleasant situations involving their advertisers. It's especially awkward when your magazine is practically predicated upon making fun of everyone and everything—like, say, Vice, which refused to run an ad for the Philadelphia hip-hop group Plastic Little's debut album because it mocked one of Vice's advertisers, Triple5Soul. More »
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Team Party Crash: Tribeca Cinema Series Presents 'Sound Bites'
Rock. Books. Food. A magical combination. Last night we sent Editorial Assistant Heather and Gawker lensperson Nikola Tamindzic down to the Tribeca Cinema Gallery to check out the scene at Alex Kapranos' Sound Bites book party. Join them after the jump. More »
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Team Party Crash: High Voltage @ Sutra
We know, sweet children, that you've missed the galleries of LES hipstards. For that, we offer our sincerest apologies. Fear not, however, because Nikola Tamindzic has returned from shooting dirty sluts in Vegas and is back to his regular schedule of shooting dirty sluts in NYC. Last night we sent him to survey the High Voltage scene at Sutra, which hosted the debut DJ set from the totally talented Andrew WK. That's right, the guy who bought your eardrums to orgasm with such hits as "It's Time to Party", "Love Live the Party", "Party Hard" and our personal favorite, "Party Till You Puke" has gone and donned a pair of headphones and iPod and calls himself a DJ.
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Team Party Crash: 'Vice' Magazine Girls Issue at 205
Remember when you picked up your first issue of Vice back in, like, 1999, and you were all, "OMG, this magazine is like, sooo cool! Do's and Don'ts! It's like Glamour but more hilarious!" It was like they were the kids in high school who knew the code word to buy coke and you were stuck smoking pot in your basement with your loser drama nerd friends. Or, you know, something like that. Then you grew a little older, and a little wiser, and you realized that now you knew the code words too, and Vice was still doing the same old shit, and it was a little less funny and a little more lame. But when we heard that they were having a party at notorious LES coke den 205, we decided to send Associate Editor Doree Shafrir and Photog Kate to see if anyone still cared. After the jump, their impressions and, of course, the photo gallery.
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Team Party Crash: Icons of the Meatpacking District @ Theory
Being the fiends for misery that we are, an event called "Icons of the Meatpacking District" suggested too much loathing for us to resist. Imagining a grotesque orgy of models, bottles, striped shirts, pointy cowboy boots, doormen and cocaine, BWE's Alex Blagg and his camera-wielding pal Nina Westervelt steeled their souls and ventured deep into the dark waters of Theory hoping to capture this spectacle and claim it for science. Unfortunately, all they managed to find was a who's who of who cares. Take a gander through our gallery and enjoy the meatiness of it all. More » -
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The Wisdom of Nigel Barker, $39.99
Good news for ANTM fans who want to get up close and personal with noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker, but don't want to have to attend some pretentious art party or reality show cattlecall: for only $39.99, you can learn all his secrets — in person — at the Learning Annex! We read the class listing with great interest, hoping to learn more about the man, the myth, etc, and we weren't disappointed:Self taught and only high school educated Nigel will explain how self belief and confidence play a commanding role in building any career. In this fascinating evening he will tell you his story from model to photographer and explain the insights he has learned along the way . . .
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Team Party Crash: The Last Magazine Party @ Visionaire Gallery
We've long heard of a fabled downtown Manhattan scene that's at the nexus of art, fashion, and media. This scene, one hears, is filled with impossibly thin people with asymmetrical haircuts and skinny jeans, who all have vague jobs as "stylists" or "designers" (of what, one wonders?), and have an air of trust-fundedness that's even stronger than their Williamsburg counterparts. Last evening, Gawker Associate Editor Doree Shafrir and fill-in photographer Alice Wetterlund stumbled upon said scene at a launch party for The Last Magazine, a big fancy coffee table book that chronicles a whole bunch of independent magazines, at Visionaire Gallery, where they learned that the audience for Blue States Lose is a lot larger than they'd ever suspected. (The evidence, such as it is, can be found here.)
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Team Party Crash: 'Saint-Tropez Diet' Release @ Marquee
We don't believe in self-help, or help in any form really, but something about the release of a diet book set at Marquee seemed too good to resist. Fortunate for you, not so for fortunate for the Team Party Crashers forced to endure this travesty. Gridskipper's Joshua Stein dragooned Laurel Ptak into photo duty, and off they went, never suspecting what lay in store. If you don't believe, just look at the evidence in our gallery, which contains a very small but potent incidence of NSFW. Full writeup after the jump. More »
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