My profile of financier and transportation reformer Mark Gorton appears in this week’s New York Observer, you can read it here. Gorton’s been profiled before, mostly for his financial wizardry (the quantitative hedge fund he founded needed trades so fast none of the electronic brokerages he worked with could satisfy him, so he started his… [Read more…]
November 4, 2009
The New York Public Library’s Young Lions benefit party Monday night got off to an innocuous start. Library donors in their 20s and 30s gathered under the glass dome of the Bartos Forum in the main branch at 42nd Street, avoiding the dance floor while the DJ spun hits from their youth (Whitney Houston, etc.).… [Read more…]
November 3, 2009
“For me, a legend is someone I look up to and I respect and admire, and I guess I’m not there yet for myself,” said designer Marc Jacobs humbly on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Pratt Institute Legends award benefit, where he was one of the evening’s honorees. “Just because they give me this prize… [Read more…]
October 21, 2009
“Since I was a kid, I’ve been hoping that I could get kids on my side, because they’re the coolest and smartest,” said Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the New York premiere of Spike Jonze’s movie version of the Maurice Sendak children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are, held at Alice Tully… [Read more…]
October 4, 2009
“When I met Ben many, many years ago, the first thing he told me was about Clarice,” said Dutch novelist Arthur Japin. “I don’t know if it was our first date, but it might have been.” Mr. Japin was talking about his partner Benjamin Moser, the “New Books” columnist for Harper’s and the author of… [Read more…]
January 29, 2010
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