Once upon a time, people could not wait to break their contracts at the Rushmore and flee Gary Barnett's ultra-luxury twin tower complex in Riverside South. Was it a typo or just bubble-era buyers' remorse?... MORE >
Plenty of news happens each day--and plenty slips through the cracks. Readers, let's test your collective memory! Does Sarah Palin, based on her togs on a Long Island stop, believe in a woman's right to shoes? ...And on the other side... MORE >
The gridlock that seized the runway before the L.A.M.B. show last night had its heart near a cluster of seats in the front row -- one seat, one empty seat, had pulled in a growing orb of press and... MORE >
It'll be sitting room only for 180 lucky fans of GoodFellas (or, just maybe, Shutter Island) at the Film Forum next week, as the Manhattan auteur not named Woody Allen addresses the Film Forum audience at a Feb. 23... MORE >
BAM is to host a near-month-long retrospective of Catherine Deneuve's films, from March 4 to March 31. The season will be a high-water mark in New York's interest in French cinema--March 3 to 13 will see the "Rendez-Vous with... MORE >
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest scheme to foster tech talent in New York City called for a world-class university to establish a significant presence here, and he's gotten a few nibbles. One is from a big fish: Stanford University is... MORE >
ESPN's star columnist Bill Simmons is launching his own site, reports AllThingsD. The as of yet unnamed blog will be owned by ESPN, but not ESPN branded. The coverage will be 70% sports and 30% pop culture, or, as... MORE >
Not only did we just fall behind D.C. in commercial real estate pricing recovery, but now we're behind Rio as the second most expensive office market in the... MORE >
Piers Morgan joined New York social-media startup VYou yesterday--the service allows users to communicate with friends, fans, and followers by recording short videos answering questions of varying degrees of pertinence. Piers's default video, running on a loop, shows him... MORE >
Fashion Week may have ended yesterday, but the final word, as it were, for The Observer was at the Adam Kimmel party at Don Hill's the night before. Hank Williams III, grandson of country legend Hank Sr., stood on... MORE >
The art world is giddy in London this week, where a slew of auctions of million-dollar art are taking off. There's been record prices... MORE >
... Kanye West might be there. Kanye is gonna be there. No -- Kanye is performing. What confetti machines? They’re going to blow dollar... MORE >
Just trust me. It's Kenneth Lerer's favorite line, and the 58-year-old general partner at Lerer Ventures and co-founder of the Huffington Post--"Kenny," as he's... MORE >
Earlier this month, James Gordon Meek resigned his position as the terrorism reporter for the New York Daily News--a post he had held for... MORE >
The cubs are pawing each other over at the Lion. As the West Village spot bids to pick up the mantle of Waverly Inn... MORE >
Last week, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell devoted an unseemly share of his airtime to blasting Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly for his "relentless barrage... MORE >
The cubs are pawing each other over at the Lion. As the West Village spot bids to pick up the mantle of Waverly Inn...
Pliers! Hard drives! Midnight dumping! North Face jackets! Electronic evidence of the destruction of electronic evidence! As most of New York ate up the...
Who am "I"? And why do "I" have to be one person? Is it just because the letter "I" looks like the number "1"?...
"Last time we were here, André said something that sort of stuck out to me," said Shala Monroque, on the wintry eve of Fashion...
Four nights of Fashion Week parties left The Observer with plenty of notes, a few hazy recollections and very little energy to tell the...
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