• Just An Online Minute... The FADER WAVVES The-Dream's Love King In Your Summer Music Face
    What I love most about New York, the city, is that it truly has something for everyone. Every niche has its own segments, every industry its own sub-industries, every culture its own subcultures. The same can be said for the magazine industry -- you would never see VICE and Good Housekeeping partner up on a party, even though that would be the most awesome party ever, but sometimes its good to keep the kids' and adults' tables separate. Last night I covered the FADER 68 Issue Release Event, celebrating their Summer Music Issue, and all the kids came out to …
  • Just An Online Minute... Volunteers' Skills Are The Kindling To Catchafire's Blaze
    Every time something horrific happens like a devastating earthquake, massive flooding, avoidable oil spills, I try to check myself when I'm about to crank about something insignificant like the internal temperature of a cocktail wiener. Sometimes the people and places in need become so innumerable, it's overwhelming, though, and it's definitely easier to just be apathetic. Catchafire aims to change this apathy, do a little leg work for you, and get your keister in charitable motion. Last night, they launched.
  • Just An Online Minute... Conversation Sees The Pros In Not Going To Cannes
    Yesterday, after running back and forth from the East Village to the Flatiron searching high and low for my missing notebook with its embarrassing lists and even stranger "brain clues" for people I meet, I looked forward to the evening, with its Conversation on Cannes/Cannes at Conversation party at the Conversation penthouse. I imagined freezing A/C, chilled cocktails, and the promised French food dropping into my belly like Parisian paratroopers. It was sort of like that.
  • Just An Online Minute... Cannes In A Kabin, Feel The Wrath!
    In May, when Mother Nature finally cranked up the heat, I ran into The Big Boss (Ken Fadner) in the elevator. He predicted I would make some sort of comment about it being too hot despite my then happy embrace of the change from rainy crud to sizzling sun. I swore after that elevator ride that I would try to go at least month without grousing about the heat in this column. That ends today. You know what else ends today? Me scribbling names and "tall dude with sweaty pits" notes in a notebook, because sometimes that notebook gets lost …
  • Just An Online Minute... An Astronaut And A Sex Doctor Walk Into NASDAQ...
    Imagine you're a hard-working actor living in a rattrap apartment in New York, waiting tables at night, dog-sitting in the morning, and auditioning whenever you can. Suddenly you're an understudy on Broadway and your... study has contracted a mean case of mercury poisoning, and bink! You're a star. Then come the sit-com deals, the sit-com-to-movie deals, the movie-to-Broadway deals, and then we've come full circle. So then why, when your heart, body, and soul have been in New York, should you have to aspire for a star all the way to the left in Hollywood? This is what Arlene Dahl, …
  • Just An Online Minute... The Stars Walk On Broadway And Kabin Goes To Cannes
    The past few weeks have been ridiculously busy and equally as fun, with summer parties kicking my butt. Whoever predicted a slow party season this summer may be eating their words with their family-style fruit salad. This week is toned down, though, and I predict next week will be practically dead due to all you summer-share jerks heading to the Hamptons or anywhere with a coast for Independence Day. I'll be heading to Memphis for what I hope will be the sweatiest southern July 4th ever. Until then, we've got this stuff going on...
  • Just An Online Minute... Absinthe Makes The House Party Fonder When Westchester Tweets Up
    After my delicious lunch at Felidia yesterday all I wanted to do was take a nap. But naps are for the weak! And the strong suck it up and head to Westchester. Irvington, NY to be exact, where Westchester140 and House Party were gathering the social media intrigued business owners small and large to discover how this still new to some communication channel and community activator can enhance their money makers. Oh yeah, and to have a little absinthe.
  • Just An Online Minute... Leonard Launches Libation, Leaves Lobster Trapeze In Danbury
    Let's say you love really good food. Let's say that when you eat this really good food you love, you also like to quaff good vino with it. And let's just say that sometimes this eating and slurping sometimes happen in front of the television while watching a cooking show. And then let's just say that sometimes those cooking show viewings inspire you to go to the greatest grocery store ON EARTH for ingredients to make your own concoction - and also watch a lobster on a trapeze. Obviously you are me in this scenario. And me like invitations that …
  • Just An Online Minute... HGTV Wines And Designs To The Nines Rain Or... Shines
    What?! Within a matter of weeks I get to cover another party up on Top Of The Rock? What a lucky girl! Not only that, but a day that called for stupid rain all day suddenly turned into quite the patchwork quilt of dark clouds and bright golden sun that held in its watery belly until well after the event ended. So what was this party that yanked me back up 67 floors or so? Come with...
  • Just An Online Minute... KSL Likes Experian, Serves Them For Lunch
    With all the boozy Internet Week New York parties out of the way, I was more than happy to return to the networking coverage vs. the slobbering partying-just-to-party circuit. Fair fun to all, but this little ding-dong can only handle so much. I had no idea that my return to the gentler side would be at the other end of the spectrum.
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