China Chalet, a Financial District restaurant that hosted a party for the film The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, is during the day invaded by barbarian brokers and hedge funders. But last Thursday it turned into a balkanized state, each out-of-place guest handpicked by director Zeina Durra. The crew of misfits high and low uncannily resembled the ex-pat jet setters, debauched hipsters and local lowlifes that protagonist Asya tags along with as she roves from... MORE >
James Murphy was standing with a bottle of Champagne, two flutes dangling between his fingers and a full glass in his other hand. He swerved. It was nearly 4 in the morning. He had just played the final show fronting LCD Soundsystem, and the band and friends had taken over the gold-coral vestibules of the Tribeca... MORE >
Despite being divorced from Jacqueline Schnabel for years, Julian Schnabel still dwells at her house on West 11th... MORE >
“It’s time to play some rebel music!” said the bar owner Barbara Cronin. ... MORE >
On a recent Friday night, a 22-year-old in his first year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in his Little Italy apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, but it decidedly lacked a... MORE >
There were pills on the tables. Small ovals, pale yellow and encased in miniature plastic ziplock bags, were strewn everywhere—on the bars, the banquettes, the orbiting trays. Some had been kicked to the floor. Discarded baggies, reaped of their goods, lay useless by the dozen. This was not an uncommon sight. It was late at Buddakan, in the meatpacking district, that tony war zone where zonked club kids bring the Jersey spirit to the... MORE >
They bid on hotel stays, spa weekends and oxygen cleanses. They bid on handbags, fashion runway shows and Broadway performances. They bid on sports memorabilia, tennis tickets and rounds of golf on celebrated greens. They bid on pet-themed tableware. They bid on jewelry. “A diamond ring from Van Cleef & Arpels.” Value: $5,000. They bid on a chance to network at Credit Suisse. “Enjoy a day of networking at Credit Suisse Investment Banking.” Value:... MORE >
The blond painter was wearing a tan jacket. “Honestly,” he said, “everyone making art right now is fucking derivative.” A man standing at the bar started yelling at the painter. “What happened to realism? What happened to figurative... MORE >
"No, Arianna can’t make it,” said the birthday boy. “But,” he continued, sipping his whiskey, “she sent me a birthday email today.” Arianna Huffington, it seems, doesn’t much make it out to Bed-Stuy on a Sunday... MORE >
Four nights of Fashion Week parties left The Observer with plenty of notes, a few hazy recollections and very little energy to tell the... MORE >
"Tim would like to invite you to go downstairs,” the bartender at Hotel Chantelle said to The Observer. The Observer wasn’t sure who Tim was, but of course we... MORE >
“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The... MORE >
