Is it just us, or do many of our elected officials remind you of someone else? Yes, Tom DiNapoli, we're talking about you. Seriously, New York's halls of power are starting to resemble an old episode of "Night of 1,000 Stars!" Check out New York's Lawmaker Lookalikes... MORE >
Last night, Poets & Writers hosted its annual benefit dinner in honor of Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi, poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and authors John Grisham and Elizabeth Nunez. The gala was held in Capitale, the Chinatown enclave. In an upper room, removed from the hubbub downstairs, where hundreds milled about in the grand columned hall waiting for dinner, emcee Paul Rudnick hobnobbed with Mr. Galassi. Was he nervous about hosting? "There... MORE >
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Brighton Beach Assemblyman Alex Brook-Krasny tells The Politicker that he has signed on with fundraising powerhouse Cindy Darrison. Brook-Krasny, the first Soviet-born member of the New York State Legislature, was first elected to the Assembly in the 2006, and said that local activists are trying to talk him into a run for the City Council when Dominic Recchia is termed out in 2013. "People tell me that they think it would be a good idea," he... MORE >
On Monday evening, a near-capacity crowd gathered at the 248-seat Players Theatre in the Village to watch an industry reading of The Fatman Cometh, a play about the death of former Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley. The stage, a bare-bones representation of Farley's dressing room at 30 Rock, was set with two end tables covered in papers and Budweiser cans. Later in the performance, one of the tables would... MORE >
When it comes to the world's most oppressed peoples, there's no such thing as bad publicity. That seems to be the thinking of Robert Thurman, cofounder and president of the cultural-preservation charity Tibet House, which is holding its annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall tomorrow night. (Interested parties may buy tickets by appearing at the Carnegie Hall box office, or calling Carnegie Hall at 212-247-7800.) Mr.... MORE >
Tiziana Hardy never goes to the Century Club anymore. The midtown haunt of the powerful and prestigious has for a short 23 years welcomed women inside its clubhouse--the white marble Stanford White-designed landmark behind gates and guards on the corner of 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue--and yet Mrs. Hardy, a member, never steps through the door. Hugh Hardy, her husband, goes all the time. The celebrated architect and spunky octogenarian happens to be the president... MORE >
Gawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer, declined to publish this story. Did the Church of Scientology use a Vanity Fair contributing editor to infiltrate and gather intelligence on the cult's enemies in the media?... MORE >
With the seeming success of the "Carpetbagger" blog, everyone at the New York Times seems to be getting into the Oscar-coverage game: Manohla Dargis and A. O.... MORE >
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