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Eavesdropping Is What Guests Do Best…


[Image via Gothamist]

  • More money and more problems for the Ground Zero site [NYT]
  • NYU maps out its expanding campus [Curbed]
  • Some taxi drivers are not pleased with the hybrid-cab deadline [NYP]
  • Computer problem causes delays at local airports [Crain"s]
  • Are NYC”s private schools slipping? [NYM]
THE GUEST LIST   Add Comment »     
    June 30, 2008  @  03:58:47 pm

Daily Style Phile: A Man On The Move

 As I”ve said before, the bike might really be the new “it” accessory. Like this guy above, it seems like the bike riders downtown are getting hipper and hipper. Just the other day I saw a woman riding her bike in a dress and two-inch heels! However, I specifically enjoy this particular bike rider not only because he braves the Chinatown traffic, but all the while he”s checking his Blackberry and eating a popsicle! Nothing says “I”m comfortable with my sexuality” like a man eating a popsicle.

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    June 30, 2008  @  05:04:20 pm

Taz Arnold Hits Up Paris Fashion Week With Kayne

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[Taz Arnold of Sa-Ra. Photo via NYMag]

This is apparently the guy that has been hitting up the Paris fashion week shows with Kayne West.  Thoughts?

EVERYTHING UNEED2 KNOW   2 Comments     
    June 30, 2008  @  03:49:43 pm

Thai Peanut Pasta Salad

thai peanut pasta saladFirst, I don’t cook. Second, no one in my immediate family really caught the cooking bug (until now, that I’ve moved far away, as both my sister and younger brother seem to have picked it up), Third, EVERYONE thinks I know how to cook and have been doing so for my whole existence when I make this recipe (which has been twice). It’s.that.good.

You can make it without the chicken and substitute organic peanut butter. etc. and the leftovers (shown in this photo) are almost better than the original batch.

Just beware, the last time I made this a friend and I came home around 3:00 am and seriously binged on the entire bowl of it. The perfect mixture of sweet and salty, it is hard to stop which is why it is one of my all time favorites:

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THINGS WE LOVE   2 Comments     
    June 30, 2008  @  02:49:10 pm

Fernando Brízio Creates Renewable Art

Fernando Brizio
[Images via Designboom]

Post written by Ashley L. Simko

Fernando Brízio has translated his Painting with Giotto series (#3 shown above) into wearable art for Italy’s Flexibility: Design in a fast-changing society event, which kicked off this weekend.

The topic of the exhibition – flexibility – gave me the chance to find again one of these ideas that were still unsolved. This enabled me to create open objects that, like a programme, can be modified, erased and restarted multiple times.”- Fernando Brízio

More story and photos below….

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NYC FASHION   4 Comments     
    July 2, 2008  @  08:15:05 am

Gay Pride Parade NYC

Gay Pride Parade NYC

Yesterday New York City held the infamous Gay Pride Parade. (Go HERE for last year”s coverage).  With all of its feathers, hot shorts, glitter, glam, and dance music the parade was by far an event to remember. The festivities began at 12 and continued throughout the day even through the rain!

More photos below.

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NYC EVENTS   2 Comments     
    June 30, 2008  @  02:31:27 pm

Party Dress Of The Week

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[Images via Shopbop]

With Fourth of July coming up this Friday, this party dress of the week post has gone All-American. Susana Monaco has three dresses that can easily transform from beach bum to bar babe in five minutes flat. All you need to do is change out of your flip-flops into four-inch heels. Easy as apple-pie! Susana Monaco also has the option to go red, white or blue! How patriotic! With these dresses, other guests at your various Independence Day celebrations will be seeing stars…and maybe some stripes too!

[Party Dress Of The Week]

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    June 30, 2008  @  01:21:21 pm

Let’s Play The Fame Game…

Patricia Field vs. Rachel Zoe

Today’s Fame Game Matchup is between Patricia Field and Rachel Zoe. Both are uber important celebrity stylists and social butterflies. Who wins the Fame Game Matchup? Field’s claim to fame was Sex and the CIty, now, she owns one of my favorite stores on Bowery. Zoe’s claim to fame is emmulating the Olsen’s and styling the likes of Nicole Richie, and Mischa Barton.

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    June 30, 2008  @  01:13:56 pm

DaSilvano Marchetto Rocks Out Blue Toenails

dasilvano marchettoSilvano Marchetto, the owner of Da Silvano, has one of the most unique personal styles I’ve seen.  Here he is rocking out some snake printed flats (as in a snake painted on top not snakeskin material), and some blue polished toenails.

This was at the cancer vixen event that we posted on last week with photos by Rob RichClick HERE for more pictures of DaSilvano at the event.

[Cancer Vixen Spalapalooza!]

NYC RESTAURANTS   2 Comments     
    July 1, 2008  @  04:41:52 pm

“Best $2K I Ever Spent!”

alphabet lounge

Today”s “Best 2K I Ever Spent” comes straight out of the east village…though you don”t technically have to pay to get a table at Alphabet Lounge, the $20 cover charge is equivalent and this weekend there were more than a few people that chose the spot as their to-go to get loose. Looks like there was even a bachelorette party there. Enjoy…

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More photos below:

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    June 30, 2008  @  12:27:29 pm