<![CDATA[Gawker: deb schoeneman]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: deb schoeneman]]> http://gawker.com/tag/debschoeneman http://gawker.com/tag/debschoeneman <![CDATA[Upper East Side Mormon To Watch Over 'Hampton Style']]> kward.jpg Remember Kristina Stewart Ward, the "No Sex and the City" editor—and Mormon!—who wrote about being a total contradiction in terms in Vogue last month? She's back in circulation, in her old position as editor of ritzy summer-only Hampton Style, nudging aside Portfolio contributor Deb Schoeneman. Are Mormons taking over the whole world? Not really, but it sounded dramatic.


Ward, who was fired the last time she edited HS, comes in under new management. Brown Publishing Company just closed on the deal they hammered out earlier this year to buy the magazine. Upper East-sider Ward is no stranger to the social beat—she's covered high society for both Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar. Plus, Mormons are in, from HBO to the campaign trail; they've even managed to invade the East Coast's Sin City. Still, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around the concept of a woman whose faith prohibits cigarettes and coffee writing about some of the country's most self-indulgent citizens. Then again, one of the principle commandments of Mormonism involves fasting, so maybe she'll fit right in!

Previously: 'Observer' Shock: Some Mormons Pretty Much Normal!

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<![CDATA[ 'The rich do strange and terrible things...]]> 'The rich do strange and terrible things with their money' beat reporter Alex Kuczynski is supplanted at the Times today by second-stringer Deb Schoeneman, who introduces us to Brad Peik and Sara Kehoe, a couple who have retained a "personal manager" to help them invent their lifestyle. "'Allison is covering all the bases for me,' said Mr. Peik, who spends winters in Lake Tahoe in California and feels more comfortable navigating ski slopes than society. 'I didn't want to waste my short time here setting up an apartment and figuring out what we would do here.' His girlfriend, a photographer, was grateful that she didn't have to deal with the move. 'If I had no job and nothing going on, it would seem reasonable for me to do these things.'" [NYT]

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<![CDATA[Know Your College Humor Founders]]> Jakob Lodwick likes to be photographed topless. Photo by Mareen Fischinger.

News of College Humor fella Zach Klein's departure from the lucrative website he co-founded got us to thinking: Who are these twenty-five-year-old millionaires, anyway? I mean, sure, we all read the New Yorker article two years ago, but the boys must be slightly different after a couple years of living in New York. Like: they probably watch Sex and the City way less! And maybe they've slept with some famous ("famous") people.

Ricky Van Veen: The Funny One
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  • Those who know him say: "Ricky's the one proudly wearing H&M. Just awesome and normal and funny, hangs with comedy elite, like people from 'The Office' and '30 Rock.'
  • Do it have a blog? Get Excited, which is more funny links than Dear Diary.
  • Has Hampton Style editor Deb Schoeneman hooked up with it? Definitely.
  • Notable quotable: "It's hard being taken seriously when you are our age. But, here, people can walk in and say, Obviously, these guys are doing something right."

    Josh Abramson: The Boring One

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  • Those who know him say: "Josh is the one who hangs with Noah Tepperberg types (though maybe not him exactly)."
  • Do it have a blog? No!
  • Has Deb Schoeneman hooked up with it? Probably not, but who knows. Still waters!
  • Notable quotable: "People love to send in photographs of their refrigerators filled with beer."

    Zach Klein: The Boyfriend Type
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  • Those who know him say: "Earnest Brooklyn."
  • Do it have a blog? Two! ZachKlein.com is Dear Diary. Copy and Taste is about learning to cook with his girlfriend! All together now: awww!
  • Has Deb Schoeneman hooked up with it? Heavens no!
  • Notable quotable:"We experimented with 'Rice Cream' for the first time and loved it!"

    Jakob Lodwick: The Hot Jerk
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  • Those who know him say: "Contrarian playa."
  • Do it have a blog? Oh so very. Obeastiality is his Dear Diary blog where he posts endless pictures of himself, but he also has a PAPER diary IRL, and he blogs about being mad at current inamorata Julia Allison for reading it! Kids today. Living such public bloglives!
  • Has Deb Schoeneman hooked up with it? Yup!
  • Notable quotable:"These Europe flights keep getting easier."

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<![CDATA[What Really Happened in Amagansett This Weekend]]> What follows is like aversion therapy for those who might want to go to the Hamptons. On Saturday night in Amagansett, as Jessica Coen reported today at New York mag, the sundry foodie blogging glitterati gathered for a burger cook-off. Coen was there to support her man Lockhart Steele, our (and her!) former boss at this very website. She looks really happy. That "typical summer share house" was Eater honcho Ben Leventhal's, and it is called "Southfork." Julia Allison was there too! She was cozying up with College Humor's Jakob Lodwick. Later they would have a huge knock-down drag-out fight but then go on to make up. Former Glamour blogger and Gawker enemy Alyssa Shelasky was munching on Doritos poolside, as was weirdly attractive photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Hampton's Style editor Deb Schoeneman was there, as was College Humor millionaire and (coincidence!) Hampton's Style Contributing Editor Ricky Van Veen. His pictures can be found here; the one above is the only one of Julia Allison topless, just to save you time searching.

One of the burger competitors (and sharemate with Leventhal) was Mo Koyfman, who kind of serves as a chaperone to College Humor on behalf of their boss, Barry Diller. It's weird that he was grilling cheeseburgers, since he's supposedly kosher. Anyway, he lost.

Schoeneman even brought her gay albino housecleaner Marco, who cleaned during the party. Momofuku's David Chang was there with Frankie's Spuntino owner Frank Falcinelli as a judge, as was Peter Meehan of the Times. Ken Friedman of the Spotted Pig showed up too late to judge anything. This girl I went to N.Y.U. with was there and now she is married to Bob Vila's son, Chris. That made me feel old. [Ed. Note: Jesus Christ, you're like 12, Josh.]

That goofy-looking actor from 30 Rock, Lonny Ross, was there with his cute girlfriend. And though the party was first reported on New York magazine's Grub Street, its editor Josh Ozersky was noticeably absent, or not-invited. Chalk that up to the fact that David Chang and a few of the other attendees absolutely hate him.

[Photo: Ricky Van Veen/Flickr]

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<![CDATA[How And Where 'Hamptons Style' Editor Deb Schoeneman Lives]]> How does Deb Schoeneman—editor of Hamptons Style magazine, Portfolio blogger, and one-time long-time New York mag contributor—actually live? Unsurprisingly, in a large-ish Water Mill house that has an indoor squash court. They use it as a guest room. Surprisingly, in a large-ish Water Mill house that has an extensive collection of literature on Judaism and the Holocaust. She also has an albino gay housecleaner named Marcos who only comes on Sundays and a virtual drumkit in one of the three two-car garages.

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<![CDATA[Peggy Siegal Is Not A Caterer]]> pegsWhen unaging (at least around the face!) PR doyenne Peggy Siegal throws a movie party in the Hamptons, she bizarrely expects you to see whatever movie she's working on. On Sunday, it was some Jaime Foxx action flick called The Kingdom. When we rolled up for her party at Savannah's in Southampton about ten minutes before the movie ended, no one was in the restaurant yet. Peggy approached: Jackie Onassis meets Nan Talese meets Allison Janney. "Sorry, we're early!" said Deb Schoeneman, the editor in chief of Hamptons Style. Peggy's eyes were burning embers of annoyance in their deep sockets. "It's O.K. this time but not again. I'm in the movie business. Not the catering business," she said. Awkward! People arrived. Jeff Zucker, the short bald president of NBC Universal, worked the tables like a croupier.

Page Six honcho Richard Johnson, who resides in Hampton Bays, was among the first to arrive. He looked like he had just walked out of a screening of "The Sorrow and the Pity." "That was the longest beheading scene ever!" he said. Johnson was accompanied by his hobbledehoy son and a svelte blond nanny who wasn't much older but was suspiciously beautiful. Richard sat in the backyard garden, which is kind of like the kiddie table at the seder.

A table of beautiful Argentinean models sat at table 17. Among them was Delfina Blaquier, the wife of star polo player Ignacio "Nacho" Figuera, the polo player. They hadn't seen the movie either. But we all agreed to say that it was "action-packed."

D.Scho was chatting with Sandra Ripert, the saucy wife of Le Bernardin's Eric Ripert. "Oh my God, he was calling me during the whole movie!" Sandra said. "He's in Aspen being a judge for 'Top Chef!'" Talk turned to the breakup of "Top Chef" hostess Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie. "I knew the marriage was on the rocks," Sandra said. "We sat next to them during the Beard dinner. Padma was all like, 'What party are we going to hit up next?' and Salman said, 'We're not going to any parties. It's late!'"

Inside, Rick and Kathy Hilton had some salmon. And then we saw Julia Allison approach the table. But as the blur of cleavage and brown hair got closer, we realized it wasn't her at all, but instead her somewhat classier and more successful doppleganger, ABC News correspondent Gigi Stone. She was trying to work up the nerve to say something to Zucker. He was chatting with some old people a few tables away. "I know we have a special connection," she said. "But he is the boss of my rival station." They don't call them stations anymore though. Her breasts were large and overwhelming and pushed up. They would have been at Zucker's eye level.

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<![CDATA[Deb Schoeneman Snatches Up Drinking Partner]]> heyman.jpgHamptons Style editor Deborah Schoeneman has managed to enlist another pirate on her Hamptons lifestyle pirate ship of bikinis and debauchery and pirates. Marshall Heyman, an editor at W much beloved of the social gals, will be joining the serial Moby-doer as executive editor. Together, they will put together packages on Shoes of Summer and Ladies Who Like Lotion Rubbed On Them By Houseboys. Or whatever they do. For the rest of you looking for work, Deb is camped out at Soho House.

[Image via NYSD]

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