Media-Whore D'Oevres



(image via JT/NYSD)

"I left the Armory to head down to The New York Public Library for a black tie dinner given in the newly refurbished Edna Barnes Salomon Room. Mrs. Salomon, who died in 2001 was a long time Conservator and member of the President’s Council of The New York Public Library ... There was a half-hour cocktail reception in the McGraw Rotunda with many familiar faces among the more than 150 guests, including: Candice Bergen and Marshall Rose ... Deborah and Philippe Dauman, Oscar and Annette de la Renta ... Edward Cardinal Egan ... Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, Mort Zuckerman, Edgar Bronfman Jr., ... Tina Brown, Susan Fales-Hill, Princess Firyal of Jordan ... Kathleen and Chris Matthews ..." (NYSocialDiary)

"While MM was in Atlantic City there was a surprise party in the Foundation Room of the House of Blues at Showboat for none other than Miss Patti Labelle. It turns out MM's trusty sidekick Michael Musto is old besties with Miss Patti so when she saw him walk into her party the two immediately began dancing and prancing to Beyoncé's 'Crazy in Love.' It was madness!" (Papermag)

"WITH Mayor Bloomberg getting out of politics when his term ends on Dec. 31, 2009, the billionaire is dropping any pretense of being a man of the people - and joining the aristocrats of Lyford Cay, the gated community of 300 mansions on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. Bloomberg, an avid golfer who already has an estate on Bermuda, has been proposed for membership in the Lyford Cay Club by his friend Donald Marron, the former PaineWebber chief who now runs Lightyear Capital." (PageSix)

"Bill Clinton isn't the only one who is getting a little testy about the endlessly long and increasingly tabloid-y battle for the democratic nomination. At today's lunch, politics were on the menu as supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama took sides over their Cobb Salads ... Table 11. Glamour editrix Cindi Leive looking like a cover gal for her own magazine in a stunning yellow sheath and sky high Christian Louboutins with GMA host Robin Roberts who dazzled the dining room in her chic suit, short 'do and killer leopard pumps. You go girl! (Table)12. Today's Al Roker, who was stopped by a squadron of fans on his way in and gamely chatted with them before joining his producer Jackie Olensky and Lauren Kapp, who is on leave from NBC until mid-August." (FishbowlNY)

"Last Friday afternoon, after a short flight to Granada, I followed a tour through the summer house that Federico García Lorca’s family bought in 1925. Laura García Lorca de los Rios, dressed in tailored black linen, evoked the memory of her uncle by way of a recollection of footsteps on a rocky path—the sound of Lorca and his friends as they would return to the house after an evening in town. The lively group would usually wander back around 2 AM, and Lorca would head straight to his desk to write. He would wake for lunch, then begin writing again as the rest of the house settled into a siesta. The images lingered as Laura García Lorca plainly explained that we were standing inside the house that the poet was taken from before he was shot, in 1936, shortly after Francisco Franco came to power." (Artforum)