"Mercy Corps, according to their web site, "works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds." Founded in 1979 by Dan O'Neill, who witnessed the horrors of Idi Amin in Uganda and the terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Mercy Corps has provided about $1.5 billion in assistance to people in more than a hundred nations. The Mercy Corps team has been active in the Georgia-Russian situation, utilizing donations to distribute food and other critical supplies. Mercy Corps is also sponsoring "Take Note," a the first annual fundraising gala "Music For Mercy Corps" which will be hosted by Sarah Silverman to benefit the Mercy Corps organization on Saturday, August 23rd at the Tuscan Villa in The Hamptons. The event is to raise funds for Mercy Corps' Action Center to End World Hunger in Darfur. The highest profile celebrity items being auctioned is a walk on role in the next Robert Zemeckis movie (the current bid is $9,000)." (Kenneth Cole AWEARNESS)
"Yesterday was an amazingly beautiful summer day in New York. I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but this has been a wonderful summer in the city, very kind to all of us ... Last night JH and I went to dinner at Cipriani with Jordana Z. who writes our dining column 'Bits & Morsels' ..We went to Cipriani last because she’d never been. That surprised me because these New York kids get around. I love Cipriani for a number of reasons beginning with the room, the staff headed by the impeccably sartorial Hassan and his first lieutenant Sergio ..Last night Cip’s was low-key. Prince Dimitri, jacket-less, open shirt, jeans, was entertaining his old pals Prince Pavlos of Greece and his Princess Marie Chantal, all bejeaned and laid back like the Mediterranean or Beverly Hills right now. At another table Georgette Mosbacher, the international traveler and purveyor of Borghese cosmetics was entertaining two businessmen. Just beyond her Dixon Boardman was holding forth with three guests." (NYSocialDiary)
"An unlikely convergence of sports fans and athletes, chicettes and hipsters occurred Thursday night on what was previously Mercer Street, between Grand and Howard. The block was transformed for the night into a stadium to celebrate the opening of the first Nike Sportswear stand-alone store at 21 Mercer. Guests like Katy Perry, Alexander Wang and Theodora Richards crowded into the block party, tickets in hand, where carts handed out beers, hot dogs and ice cream (in little plastic baseball caps, bien sûr) and DJ Mark Ronson spun. At exactly 9:21, the crowds in front of the door parted and the Soul Tigers Marching band moved in, where they danced and played to introduce the Nike store's first guests: Spike Lee and Roger Federer. Inside, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova mingled with champagne-sipping guests .." (Fashionweekdaily)
"Hey you know who has been douchier than usual in the last couple of days is that Mark Halperin, the famous political reporter who thinks he knows everything but is always wrong. His website has all sorts of useful information — campaign press releases, teevee schedules, etc. — but also a constantly updated cycle of crap predictions. This edition of 'Halperin’s Take' is the worst thing anyone has ever written about politics. And yesterday he predicted that billion-year-old Republican Sen. Dick Lugar would be Obama’s pick. WTF?"
"On Thursday evening, Kevin Christiana, a Project Runway Season Four veteran, watched as the principal cast of Traitor celebrated the New York premiere of their film at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, and Saïd Taghmaoui squeezed onto a pair of plush red couches with Jeffrey Nachmanoff, who is making his directorial debut." (Observer)
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