Last night, Jay-Z celebrated the reopening of his 40/40 club, Ewan McGregor and Blake Lively attended the screening and after party of Haywire, Aaron Stern presented his photo exhibit at Milk Gallery, Alice and Olivia held a dinner, and so much more. Last night's parties was all about the celebrity sightings. More»

The NY Observer picks their hottest bachelors and bachelorettes in Media, Gloria Steinem is rockin' it at 77, and Brian Stelter is having the best year ever. Plus, LOLA relaunches (!), and Mr. Dannijo is spawned! There's a lot going on today... More»

Anna Wintour, society types, and an ultra-fashionable crowd head to Lincoln Center for ABT's Annual Spring Gala; DVF took in a preview of the High Line Section 2; Katie Couric and Whoopi Goldberg read at the Literacy Partners annual Gala; Waris Alhuwalia viewed florescent art; Topher Grace saw a movie; Paula Abdul managed to not get wasted and be embarrassing at a party and more! Last night's parties were on their best behavior. More»

• Paris Hilton nixed from Nicole Richie's intimate wedding guest list [Post]
• Mark Zuckerberg joins 56 other billionaires vowing to give away half of their fortunes in Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge [HuffPo]
• Police believe they've solved the Ronni Chasen murder case as a robbery gone wrong by an ex-con suspect on a bicycle [LATimes]
• Now you can own a t-shirt commemorating ex-JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater's famed flip-out for just $19.99! [TMZ]
• Beyonce gifts Jay-Z with world's most expensive car—worth a cool $2 million—for his birthday [PE]

• We are looking forward to seeing them in East Hampton, hopefully Phillippe will have resolved paying for toilet paper by the weekend [Eater]

• Imagining what goes on when Oprah, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Mayor Bloomberg, and Bill Gates get together [NYMag] More»

Warren Buffett's Biography "Snowball" was released today and it seems perfect that I will be purchasing it at the Barnes & Nobles store in Omaha, NE.  After (very) coincidentally running into fellow New Yorker, Heist Gallery owner, and Omaha native Talia Eisenberg this weekend (we happened to be eating in the same sushi restaurant in Omaha's Old Market without even realizing the other one was there!), I find she is just as excited about Mr. Buffett's tell-all.  She and her father (a Berkshire investor) "raced" to the bookstore today to buy a copy of Alice Schroeder's book.

Alice was on the Today show earlier this morning and I like how she noted that Warren took a HUGE bet on her and had no changes for her when he read the final draft.  In fact, he told her that if she had more than one account of an event on his life to pick the LESS flattering version to highlight.

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The website for Berkshire Hathaway, run by Warren Buffett and his team of financial wizards is, well, rudimentary to say the least.  Another case for the success of simplicity....in websites, and other areas of our lives.  September always seems to be a stressful month, new business beginnings, back to school, summer's over and it's time to get serious....whatever the case may be, I always find that getting your life down to the bare essentials makes a ton of difference.  And, if Buffett's successful company isn't enough motivation for you, take it from Pam over at the office:

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