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society
Who's In the Monkey Bar Mural?
Wispily pompadoured Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's new midtown venture Monkey Bar is a bar/restaurant for rich people. There's even a giant mural commemorating some of between-wars New York's bestest richies. So who's in it? More »
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Comment by thewiseking: this place will likely cannibalize whatever life remains at Waverly. the place is dying. walked in on a lovely sunday... more » | Other threads
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atheism
American Crisis: Atheists In Our Midst!
The atheist War on Christmas looks to be hotter than ever this season! Emboldened by the victory of Barack Obama—a self-proclaimed Christian, but not the type who looks like he would handle serpents recreationally—nonbelievers are running ad campaigns all over the place telling everyone about god, and how he doesn't exist. The heathens have already plastered ads all over our nation's capital. They even have some semi-celebrities on their side. But the forces of Jesus are fighting back! It's an all-out battle for the soul of America's billboards: More »
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Comment by Niko Bellic: Great. Evangelical Atheists. If there is anything we need to clear our views, it's more billboards. 30 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Emily Brill Afflicted with Blogger Burnout
Burnout: it happens to the best (and the worst!) of bloggers. Everyone's susceptible—even professional unpaid societyblogger-heiresses like Fifth Avenue Misfit Emily Brill. Her blog was down for like, days! (Everyone has those George Constanza moments where they storm out of work in a huff, only to return the next day pretending like they didn't quit.) We eulogized her and asked her to come back over the weekend, but only for our own snarky, selfish purposes. Now, the Brill is back, bitches ("I took things down for a bit of the timeout"), and she's ready to continue serving as our Ultimate Narrator: More »
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By SheilaComment by Trixie from Toronto: She still doesn't bug me half as much as Julia Allison. 12 Responses | Other threads
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society
Page Six Mag Finds Lydia Hearst Replacement
Now that modelheiress Lydia Hearst has quit her Pulitzer-worthy Page Six magazine column in an "I didn't write that" snafu concerning alleged criticism of her family's publishing empire, they've been on the hunt for a new—and hopefully equally vapid—kid kolumnist. Who's been chosen to top Lydia's "I just bought banana-scented scratch-and-sniff wallpaper for my kitchen" musings? Liam McMullan, boy-about-town and 20-year-old son society photog Patrick. He's apparently the godson of Village Voice gossip Michael Musto, who broke the news. More »
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By SheilaComment by ineffable.me: sometimes I don't understand how I can stand to live in this city. 7 Responses | Other threads
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births, deaths, and marriages
Introducing "Births, Deaths, and Marriages"
Welcome to our new feature about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today's roundup: Maer Roshan, Sam Champion, and Joshua David Stein: More » -
shorts
Media, Fashion Elites Introduce Us To "Shorts"
When the winter snows retreat and the spring gives way to the warming rays of the summer sun, urban gentlemen customarily carry an extra handkerchief to dab the sweat that accumulates within their long trousers. But in this modern age, it seems, some fashion-forward men are turning to an odd form of above-the-knee abbreviated breeches, casually referred to as "shorts." The New York Observer kindly explores the world of the daring striders who are unafraid to expose their lower legs on the streets of our metropolis: More »
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Comment by cuffshark: Aww... c'mon. This trend allows me to laugh like hell at all the dipshit gymrats who've elected to look like... more » | Other threads
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ikea
Prepare To Be Robbed, IKEA Customers
The first-ever IKEA store is opening in the borough of Brooklyn tomorrow, a development which has the local media all atwitter. Close to 40 people have lined up for the chance to be the first ones in the rapidly gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood to buy mass-produced Swedish furniture. To celebrate the occasion, the gruff and hilarious Park Slope guy who goes by the name of Blognigger (just to make you uncomfortable) has posted his own Onion-esque take: "Red Hook Blacks Line Up to Rob First 100 IKEA Customers." But he doesn't forget to make the scheduled robberies a multicultural endeavor for the Curbed.com-reading gentrifiers themselves, too: More »
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Comment by Road_Rash: @Freegan: Honestly, I would rather buy something slightly past it's prime from a flea market. more » | Other threads
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society
The Rich Blog Better Than We Do
When the rich blog for themselves, they don't stoop to snark or any of the other tactics that common scum like us employ. Take the angelic Melissa C. Morris, the socialite who runs May December. "Over espresso at a restaurant near her Manhattan apartment, she said that, on the Internet and in life, “I focus on the positive. I like to keep things lighthearted. Using a medium that often portrays women of her milieu as spoiled backstabbers, Mrs. Morris offers a rare perspective of New York society on her blog [...] The defunct Socialite Rank once passed harsh judgment over the social ambitions of young Manhattan swells like Mrs. Morris, but it and other socialite observer blogs are generally written by outsiders (in the case of Park Avenue Peerage, a college student in Illinois). But Mrs. Morris, 28, not only lives the life of galas, country houses and world travel, but reports on it in posts utterly free of snark." More »
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Comment by SheetalAmarynceus: Oh ROT she's not snarky. She was spotted at a "lunch" avidly discussing the "Countess' divorce", gossiping with all the... more » | Other threads
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live nation
The Future Of The Music Industry Is 15 Pop Bands
Because the music industry is an even worse place to invest your money than the newspaper industry at the moment, everyone is looking for the next big thing. The closest they've come is "360 deals," where artists get a huge check in return for a big cut of all their different revenue streams. First, Madonna signed a contract like this with Live Nation for $120 million. Then Jay-Z signed a contract with Live Nation for $150 million. Live Nation wants to sign 15 more artists to contracts like this. Then everybody else in music can quietly retire. Hope you like the Jonas Brothers a lot! More »
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Comment by fin de siecle: how long is it going to take Them to realise that internet forcibly divorced "music" and "industry" like, when they... more » | Other threads
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john mcwhorter
Hip Hop: All Bad
Are you one of the apologist types who argues that not all hip hop music is ignorant, antisocial filth? Please excuse New York Sun columnist and bizarre racial thinker John McWhorter as he shakes his head in exasperation at your foolish "fallacy." Did you know that the urban black demographic has problems with crime and education? Let's hear you defend your precious "conscious" rap now! How does the irredeemable evil of all rap music ever recorded logically follow from the existence of social problems? John McWhorter will tell you how: with some terrifying lyrics from The Roots, proving that hip hop will be our generation's downfall: More »
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Comment by SilverJacket: For all of Slick Rick's questionable messages, he did make this. "Don't be a fool like those who don't go... more » | Other threads
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justice
Teenage Punks Must Apologize On YouTube For Being Dumb
Teenagers have always been complete jerks, but in the YouTube age, they have an unprecedented ability to share their jerky ways with the entire world. And then to get arrested for it. When two teenage jerks in (naturally) Florida videotaped themselves pulling a "Fire in the hole" prank—tossing a huge cup of soda through the window at a drive-through worker—and put it up on YouTube, the enterprising victim did some online detective work of her own and caught them. Now, a judge has sentenced the young punks to post another video of themselves on YouTube: "an apology that shows them facedown and handcuffed on the hood of a car." That's nice and everything, but even better would be an apology that shows them facedown after being beat up by angry fast food workers. (Florida McDonald's veteran here, thank you). Sometimes, too, teenage jerks get their comeuppance right when they try their stupid soda-tossing. Like this: More »
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Comment by Knucklehead Babylon: One time in high school my friend and I were in a parked car eating fast food in the restaurant... 1 Responses | Other threads
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trends
Jesus Gyms: Helping To Ease Christians Out Of The Mainstream
You love working out. You love Jesus. But gyms are such meat markets: sweaty, sculpted, sexy bodies everywhere, driving your brain crazy thinking about... not the church bake sale, if you know what we mean. (Sex). So what to do? Where can you go? Is this all a setup leading into a trend story about the astounding success of a Christian-themed gym located, predictably, in Florida? God yes! And furthermore, we think it's great: More »
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Comment by mugczar: A wise man (Oscar Wilde) is to have said, "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield... more » | Other threads
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request for information
Hamptons Party Calendar
Summer is almost upon us, party people. And we're considering putting together a party calendar, so all of you know where to sneak in and scam free booze from rich people. We need YOU to email us info about highfalutin' upcoming parties in the Hamptons, and we'll do the rest. To give you a general idea of what we're looking for, here's an invitation for all of you to a Social Life Magazine party this weekend that will feature none other than Whitney Port from The Hills! OMG OMG. Send more now! More » -
trends
Is It Okay To Live With The 'Rents?
Living at home with your parents well into your 20s and even 30s: it's not so bad! A full third of 18-34-year-olds currently do it, a figure that's been rising for 25 years. And studies indicate that the politely-named "open nest" trend will keep going strong, which the WSJ says will mean that "the stigma traditionally linked to young adults' living at home will fade." We say: not bloody likely. More »
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Comment by RitaCassowary: I hate the fact that all of you ladies on this post seem so disgusted with guys that live in their... more » | Other threads
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race
Whites, Black Middle Class Are Friends
In an Ad Age blog column entitled "Guess What, America? There Is A Black Middle Class," marketing exec Moses Foster puts forth the message: There is a black middle class. So stop talking to us like we're all gangsters! When Foster and a friend went to an ad conference a couple weeks ago, they had a conversation that went like this: "I expect that you two like white women." Why? "Because you talk white. You're so articulate." That's so racist! Everyone knows that white people aren't articulate. The funniest part of the story, though, is the comment section, which is split between minorities relating their own stories of discrimination, and sympathetic white people scrambling to fulfill every I-have-a-black-friend stereotype there is: More »
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Comment by boobaloob: @TwinkleThunder: Are you for real? Welcome to ingroup segregation! It's what our country was founded on. I hear bald... more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Washington Post Reports: Powerful People Are Powerful
David Rothkopf, a highly educated scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, penned an explosive op-ed for the Washington Post that could upend the global power structure and spark revolution across the earth. Because it seems that our world—far from being one in which each of the 6 billion humans shares in an equal portion of the political, economic, and cultural power, as you had believed—is actually run by a "superclass" of people who control everything. Rothkopf reports, in direct contradiction to everything that your third grade social studies teacher promised you, that very powerful people are, in fact, very powerful. Bummer! More »
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Comment by ADismalScience: @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Whoa, what?! I'm 100% pro-immigration. I'm just saying that Americans are not Britons, just as Canadians are not... more » | Other threads
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from the mailbag
Did High Society Party Planner Try To Rip Off A Charity Auction?
Bronson Van Wyck (pictured in white) is a blueblood, Yale-educated NYC event planner whose firm is known for staging fahbulous parties for everything from high society weddings to political rallies. But according to one reliable tipster, he's also a cheapskate who recently tried to scam his way into a cut-rate gym membership by rigging a charity auction. The full email detailing the party boy's underhanded plan to save himself $600 at Equinox, after the jump.
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Comment by famousauthor: Is "Bronson Van Wyck" any relation to "Hamilton Nolan"? Or a Skull and Bones brother, perhaps? more » | Other threads
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gawker stalker
We Are All Part Of The Problem
Do you really want to know what Spencer and Heidi were wearing in Midtown today? Our stalker has the deets. More » -
heartbreak
Kushner's Ex Loses 'Observer' Socialite Catfight
Did the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner breakup affect her performance in the Kushner-owned New York Observer "Socialite Slapdown"? Trump had been inexplicably placed in the "brains" bracket, not "birth," but while she fought her way to the Sweet Sixteen, she finally and suddenly lost out to #14 seed Peter Davis. The contests seem to perhaps be based on "internet voting" but there's plenty of room for mischief in that. Recount! -
the rich
Society Huddles Terrified in Their Mansions, While Socialites Prowl the Night
David Patrick Columbia, who narrates the goings on of New York society, has a theory about the ladies of Real Housewives of New York City, the Bravo reality show in which five idiots wander around New York, destroying everything. These women are not Society, Columbia insists: "Socialites, yes maybe; Society, no. But then, it could be argued successfully that there is no Society anymore. Socialites go out at night. Society stays home." It's just like that movie I Am Legend, where the hero holes up in his gorgeous townhouse on Washington Square Park, while hideous zombie vampire creatures roam Manhattan. Society is aged and weak, as the socialites will be someday. This will continue until society has died and everything has been devoured. It's pretty grim. Though Columbia does demonstrate some appreciation for the socialite menace: "The Countess de Lesseps, off-camera is a very nice woman, and is also a Native American." Oh. Well, there you have it. [NY Social Diary]
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Comment by maevemealone: I saw the Brooklyn wench at Fairway yesterday, shopping with her husband and kids. The husband was not as awful... more » | Other threads
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celebutards
They'd Look So Pretty in Handcuffs
Guest of a Guest wants us to guess which wrist tattoos belong to which young It Girls. Duh, it's societress-model Lydia Hearst with her ill-advised "Factory 2.0" skeleton key tattoo, jailbait soap actress Levin Rambin, and Leighton Meester, aka Blair from Gossip Girl. [Guest of a Guest]
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By SheilaComment by idratherbesailing: @fiveinchtaint: Maybe opening the heart reveals the key, which can then be used in Madonna's, uh, ignition? Sidenote - it... more » | Other threads
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society
Marissa Mayer pays $60K for Oscar de la Renta lunch
Society site SF Luxe is reporting that Google vice president Marissa Mayer bid $60,000, to win a lunch with legendary designer Oscar de la Renta at a benefit auction for the League to Save Lake Tahoe. This marks yet another rung climbed by the creepy-laughed Google exec on the San Francisco society scene. Previous ascensions included the SFMOMA charity ball and a luncheon she hosted for her "I Dream of Cake" partnership. Photo by Drew Altizer
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