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party crash

'Sons And Other Flammable Objects' Book Party

29-year-old debut novelist Porochista Khakpour had her book party last night at her friend Sarma Melngailis's raw food restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. It was also Sarma's 35th birthday, so the party contained an oddly wonderful mix of raw food-loving celebs—Carol Alt! Ann ... Curry?—and literary types. Laurel Ptak took the glamourshots.
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2:50 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Emily Gould
3,779 views, 19 comments

fashion week

The Unruly Heir Spring '08 Show And Afterparty

Socialgay Kristian Laliberte, who does the PR for fledgling label Unruly Heir, had promised us "more of a presentation than a show, with models walking down the runway to inhabit tableaus vivant, or living painting." What this meant: models, dressed in preppie clothes but carrying props such as a croquet mallet, or a ghetto blaster boombox, or a hobo's hankie-on-stick thing, walked down the runway, posed at the end of it it, and then walked over to the side and pretended to "tag" a painting that was pretending to be a fancy painting by spritzing it lightly with pastel spraypaint. One of them threw a tennis ball into the audience! Another walked with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. It was all very badass, very Port Authority meets Palm Beach. Or: very Dalton meets Once I Saw 'Paris Is Burning.' The inimitable Laurel Ptak documented it for posterity.

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6:10 PM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Emily Gould
4,034 views, 42 comments

Latest by ambitious: @hamburgerhotdog: Damn. You win. But yeah - that's def the voice that was the subject of that Observer article about the manhattan girls and the uptalking and the pony tails and "Aaaandreeeeew-uh?" more »

party crash

'Blood Is The New Black' Book Party At Death And Co.

Former Travel & Leisure and CondéNet employee Valerie Stivers' first novel takes place a magazine named Tasty, the flagship of a big publishing empire called Oldham, Inc. At Tasty, editors stay up all night and keep the lights off in their offices until midmorning, and they're almost never spotted eating. Also, there's no garlic allowed in the cafeteria! It takes heroine Kate McGraw a while to clue into the fact that they're all literal bloodsucking vampires, but you know what? Who can blame her. Last night, Emily and photographer Laurel Ptak found themselves in the gothy confines of Death and Co., where a group of sallow-skinned yet not undead magazine types had gathered to fete the book.

6:10 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Emily Gould
1,697 views, 28 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @sexbot: not news, though. more »

the gays

Famous Author Celebrates Birthday With Live Nude Boys @ Home Sweet Home

On Friday night, we sent young gay writer-hottie Bennett Madison to cover a party thrown in honor of the birthday of gay eminence Bruce Benderson. We didn't know who that was either, but it turns out that he's very important to the gays! "Bruce Benderson is like Gore Vidal but a little bit [Ed: Um, 21 years!] younger and more downtown. He wrote a bunch of books which no one at the party had read (I asked). Also he went to high school with Camille Paglia. He's an outrageous gay elder statesment. I mean statesman. I'm still drunk," Bennett IM'd us this morning. The detailed accounting of his fun times are after the jump, accompanied by photos by perpetual lone heterosexual in the room Nikola Tamindzic. More more more can be found here. More »

2:50 PM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Emily Gould
6,159 views, 11 comments

Latest by gaycurmudgeon: "if I'm not getting a BJ, why am I here?" I ask myself that question every time I go to the Eagle. more »

the jews and the blacks

Is 'Duck Duck Wally' L.A.'s 'Devil Wears Prada'?

At last night's book party for "Duck Duck Wally" at G Spa, groups of short white Jewish dudes sat on banquettes bathed in a red light. Whirlpools of nonpotable water glowed eerily from the Jacuzzis. At one point, I ill-advisedly put my hand in one and soon developed a rash. Simon and Schuster, who published the novel, handed out fake gold chains. That the book tells the story of a short white Jewish dude who ghostwrites rhymes on the DL for a rap artist named Oral B only somewhat excused the charged racial implications. Like the novel's protagonist, its author Gabe Rotter is a short Jewish guy himself. Yesterday we got a "tip"—probably just deep cover publicist shill—that though the book was sold as a novel, "The rapper in the book is based on a few of the MAJOR rap stars, who really do have some fat white Jewish dude writing most if not ALL of their rhymes." More »

2:40 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,435 views, 17 comments

Latest by LeeLowe: I'm an indie online writer. more »

lunch with tina

Tina Brown Is The People's Publisher

This afternoon, as Book Expo America begins, Tina Brown and Doubleday hosted a luncheon at MoMA's The Modern to celebrate the release of The Diana Chronicles. In the back room, like dwarves, each of the seven tables came with an adorable author of note. Ian McEwan, Kate Christensen, Jeffrey Toobin, Sebastian Faulks, Valerie Martin and Dan Wallace were the literary set pieces and their books, except Brown's (it's still unpublished, though excerpts will be in next week's Vanity Fair), were liberally distributed throughout. We counted two seersucker suits and more than one pair of Converse. The group could choose between sea bass with coco beans and spring vegetables "au pistou" or beef strip loin with morels, wilted lettuce and yukon gold salad. Tina Brown was fashionably late. More »

2:36 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By Joshua Stein
1,653 views, 1 comment

Latest by SarahHeartburn: Please, now, T-shirt nomination. "I'm the only woman who eats at parties." more »

the avant garde

The Wooster Group Benefit: Art By Terrorists

The Wooster Group has always been described as avant garde. This means that either the theatrical garde hasn't changed in 30 years, or the Wooster Group has. Last night at The Box for their annual benefit, Michael Stipe sat on a low sofa and watched Moby, a smaller, uglier him, massacre the 12-bar blues. Mikhail Baryshnikov turned out even cooler in person than we thought, and, as always, John Waters provided some of the only words of wisdom: "Avant garde is a dirty dirty word. I'd never call anything I liked avant garde." Nikola Tamindzic (his own gallery is here) and our own Joshua David Stein got all avant on the rest of them.
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3:50 PM on Tue May 1 2007
By Joshua Stein
3,117 views, 7 comments

Latest by meh: I went to the College of Wooster and apparently there is no relation. Meh. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: 'Culture + Travel' Launch

LTB Media honcho James Truman, his billionairess boss Louise MacBain, Culture + Travel EIC Michael Boodro, and LTB marketing mandarin Lawrence Kaplan. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Sep 27 2006
By Chris Mohney
858 views, 2 comments

party crash

Team Party Crash: Rated X at Luke & Leroy

Ever since the MisShapes party vamoosed, downtown hellmouth Luke & Leroy has been strugglin' a little. Its Saturday-night MisShapes party replacement, Rated X, goes straight for the gonads with enthusiastic amateur nudity. The hipsters are still drawn in droves, MisShapes or no; many probably haven't even noticed the change in party management. Except that they take their clothes off a lot. For money. Unfortunate Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley recorded the hoopla surrounding their most recent (and highly debatable) "Best Body" contest. Top prize went to a twee young male carrying neither body fat nor shame, while the gal Richard brought to the gala went to his roommate after one drink. Drama! Oh yes, did we mention the boobies? They're there. The clip's NSFW, if you haven't figured that out yet.

4:10 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Chris Mohney
471 views, 10 comments

Latest by flashman: What a nice gesture. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: Virgin Mobile VMA-holes After-Party

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new york times

Gawker Now Claiming Credit For Photos, Captions

Shockingly, these gentlemen work in the financial industry. More »
party crash

Team Party Crash: 'Fabulous Nobodies' Republication Event

Last night News gossip Ben Widdicombe and T (the NYT Style book) bigwig Horacio Silva threw a little party at Silva's charming apartment. The soiree was in honor of Lee Tulloch, whose Fabulous Nobodies is being republished on its twentieth anniversary. We dispatched Intern Neel, whose coverage follows, along with the fine work of Gawker lensman Nikola Tamindzic. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By abalk2
2,460 views, 12 comments

team party crash

Team Party Crash: Toby Young's Book Party


So this photo may show Ian Spiegelman trying to maul Doug Dechert, but who's the chick on the left? And what the hell is she on? More »

5:00 PM on Fri Jul 14 2006
By Jessica
3,450 views, 3 comments

krucoff

Krucoff Throws Kegger When Denton Isn't Home

Glutton for punishment that Gawker may be, our offices were loaned out last night to mascot Andrew Krucoff, who used our HQ to host a book party for King Dork author Frank Portman (at right with — gasp — chastity slut Dawn Eden). No ridiculous journalists engaged in bitch-slappery, making things a little less pseudo-exciting, but Krucoff still has his own party crash for your perusal. We're just hoping that no shitfaced bloggers enjoyed a fumbling hookup atop our servers. More »

2:10 PM on Fri Jul 14 2006
By Jessica
119 views, 4 comments

Latest by your mom: it's more like team krucoff and his friends. boring. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: Dealbreaker.com Launch Party


Elizabeth Spiers stiffens as lit agent Kate Lee goes straight for her wallet. More »
party crash

Team Party Crash: Motherfucker Memorial Day

Whenever there's a holiday, there's a Motherfucker party — wherein all the hip kids and their tranny friends join together in sweaty, squalid bliss. This Sunday night was no exception, and Gawker staff shutterbug Nikola Tamindzic was proudly in attendance, catching all the good vice he could. His images are below in our nifty, new gallery; click on each thumbnail to enlarge. Not necessarily safe for work, mind you. More »

4:00 PM on Tue May 30 2006
By Jessica
183 views, 4 comments

bridget harrison

Team Party Crash: 'Tabloid Love' Book Party


Paula Froelich looks to Bridget Harrison for her daily dose of calcium. More »
party crash

Team Party Crash: 'Time' 100 Party

John McCain is a huge fan of Ralph Lauren's Rugby line. More »