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A Social History of Richard Holbrooke, Bulldozer of Manhattan

On April 24, 1941, Richard Holbrooke was born in Manhattan. And though he spent his last hours yesterday in Washington, D.C. and much of his diplomat’s life crossing borders fighting oppressive rulers...

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Military Madness! Harvey Keitel Ribs Christopher Walken at Vanity Fair Party

As a rule, guests at New York parties do not usually eat hors-d’oeuvres; trays waft back under people’s noses and no one ever touches a bite. But guests at the Vanity Fair party for the TriBeCa Film...

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Death of Magazines? Try Magazines of Death!

“It’s good to see the journalism of death is alive and well,” said New Yorker editor David Remnick as he accepted the public interest Ellie for Atul Gawande’s morbid “Letting Go” at the National...

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Fate of Elaine’s Out of Graydon Carter’s Hands

Aging New York literati may still be praying for a savior to swoop in and save Elaine’s, but Graydon Carter will not be making any eleventh-hour power purchases. The Upper East Side ink-stained parlor...

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A Very Fashionable Week At The Grill: Photographers, Actors and Style Icons...

We had a beautiful event last weekend for Todd Eberle, the photographer, celebrating his new book, Empire of Space–which features the Four Seasons 50th anniversary portrait Mr. Eberle took two years...

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fREE ca$H 4 U!!! NOT a scam!

(Joel Kimmel) Besides being well-known, well-heeled New Yorkers, what do Henry Kravis, Jessica Seinfeld, Donald Trump, Lewis Lapham, Lizzie Grubman, Peggy Siegal, Nina Griscom, Ira Rennert and Nicole...

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NYT's Wine Critic Delivers Blistering Takedown of Brooklyn Dining As An...

The Monkey Bar > Brooklyn (Patrick McMullan) Remember the days when The New York Times‘ Chief Wine Critic Eric Asimov tried to pretend that everyone in New York wasn’t as wealthy as it’s 1%?...

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Considering the Unexpected Departures

Jacobs. So Kim Jong Il, Christopher Hitchens and former Czech president Václav Havel walk up to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates of Heaven … If you’ve been lost in the static of radio silence this past...

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Menace to Society: Please Don’t Feed the Models

Outfit by Holy Tee, Skybox by American Express, posture by years of bad habits I used to think Fashion Week was fun. This was years ago, when “the tents” referred to actual tents. Back in the day (it...

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First They Came for Newsweek: Is a Second Media Winter On the Way?

Brown. Is it happening again? The bad time went by many names: the meltdown … the shakeout … the reckoning … the death of print… or sometimes, simply, “trying to freelance.” Old-timers can still...

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The Old Man and the Secret: In After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey...

Michael Hainey When Graydon Carter pulled an intern named Michael Hainey aside at the Spy magazine Christmas party in 1989, the legendary editor had probably had a few. “I think you’re going to be a...

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Grilling Spree: Summertime Sizzles as New York’s Experts Reveal What’s Cooking

Diane von Furstenberg and Natalie Joos. It started with a harmless weekend in the country, when Girls producer Jenni Konner and her partner, director Richard Shepard, invited an intimate cadre of...

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Graydon Carter Gets Extra-Burned By Awkward New York Times Error

This is Mr. Carter, who definitely isn’t an owner of Minetta Tavern. (Photo: Getty) A recent New York Times article misidentified Graydon Carter as an investor in Keith McNally’s Minetta Tavern. “An...

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What Graydon Carter Thought While Reading Goop

The September 2000 issue of Vanity Fair, before the anti-Paltrow backlash. Vanity Fair posted an expanded letter from editor in chief Graydon Carter about “the whole Vanity Fair-Gwyneth Paltrow...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne) Get ready to pay a dollar more for People magazine. And then get ready to pay for other magazines, too. (New York Post) Speaking of Time, Inc. cost saving measures, the...

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Kara Swisher Gets Glossy: Graydon Snags Scooptress for Vanity Fair

If tapping Annie Leibovitz to shoot David Karp and his sidecar wasn’t enough to convince you that Vanity Fair is

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Graydon Carter Isn’t Interested in Quantifying Himself, Thanks Very Much

Does any corner of New York society remain untouched by the go-go spirit of the raging tech boom? Apparently not.

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Power Players Still Gossiping Over Ray Kelly Book Party

Michael Bloomberg and Graydon Carter hosted the Uptown affair.

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John Varvatos’ Latest Homage to Rock ‘n Roll Aims to Confuse and Disrupt

The designer wonders if rock is dead.

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Wired Called Donald Trump ‘Someone With Tiny Hands’ in Several Articles

It was all because of a Chrome extension error.

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