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Insufferable Downtown Parties Will Spruce Up Jersey Hellhole

What do you get when you take the snobbish manufactured exclusivity of the downtown NYC faux-celebrity modeltrash circuit and combine it with the barren urban nightmare that is Atlantic City? I don't know, but idly rich hipsters across the tristate area will soon be paying big money to find out, if cultural connoisseur Paul Sevigny has anything to say about it! More »

10:29 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Malcolm Gladwell v. Adam Gopnik

Last night at Capitale, The Moth celebrated ten years of storytelling. Media polymath Kurt Andersen, Jewy comedian Andy Borowitz, Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, potter Jonathan Adler and Lili Taylor all sat at one table in the front. Harper's figurehead Lewis Lapham didn't show. The main event: The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik would engage in heated storytelling duel with co-worker Malcolm Gladwell. Real estate mini-mogul Adam Gordon sat at the same table as Garrison Keillor, who was there to receive the first-ever Moth Award Honoring the Art of the Raconteur. Keillor looks like Dwight Schrute from "The Office" and is much funnier in person than on his overly precious show. Also he spat chevre on my hands and I haven't washed them since. Nikola Tamindzic was there, drawn like a shutterbug to an event.
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12:10 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Joshua Stein
6,022 views, 22 comments

Latest by dweeb: I once attended an event where I was the only guest wearing a suit. Spotting me, and wanting to initiate conversation, Garrison Keillor inquired, "You are a theatrical producer?" Thus my fake career was born. more »