Material meets Gossip Girl: Madonna and daughter Lourdes direct Taylor Momsen in fashion shoot for ... The Daily Mail | It must have been a little nerve racking being directed in a fashion shoot by the Queen of Pop. | But for Gossip Girl Taylor Momsen, the new face of Madonna and her daughter Lourdes’ Material Girl clothing line, it all seemed a bit of a breeze. | And in typical fashion, Madonna took charge o...
Jennifer Garner gets the royal treatment as she visits Starbucks in a tiara The Daily Mail | Jennifer Garner enjoyed being a princess for a day while filming her new movie, Arthur. | The 38-year-old actress made a quick coffee run in New York yesterday in between scenes with a diamanté tiara in her carefully set hair. | She looked otherwise casual in a black top and jeans as she wal...
Off the Menu: Three New Restaurants for Battery Park City The New York Times Christian Hansen for The New York Times Danny Meyer | Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group just announced that it will open three new restaurants in Battery Park City next year. | They will be in a building at 102 North End Avenue. Blue...
Russell Brand hot-foots it from church in nothing but his pants on set of Arthur remake The Daily Mail | Surely this is enough to make the bride run screaming, not the groom. | Russell Brand was spotted running out of a church in New York today in nothing but his pants as he filmed a scene for Arthur yesterday. | The comedian and actor legged it down ...
For Rangel and House Ethics Panel, the Brinkmanship Continues The New York Times | With the prospect of a damaging public ethics trial looming less than a day away, Representative Charles B. Rangel and the House Committee on Standards of Public Conduct continued their brinkmanship on Wednesday. Brendan Smialowski for The New York...
More frequent, more intense heat waves in store for New York PhysOrg | Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists at The City Colle...
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Storm Weakened, Drilling Rig Returns to Well Site The New York Times | HOUSTON — As Tropical Storm Bonnie weakened to a mere tropical depression over the Gulf of Mexico, a drilling rig working to repair the crippled Macondo oil well reversed c...
Rules of the Pool The New York Times | To the Editor: | “Remaking Park Ave. Into a Spot to Splash” (news article, July 16), about temporary swimming pools coming to Manhattan, is welcome news to New Yorker...
Fund Manager (and Teddy Bear Lover) Pleads Guilty The New York Times | Paul Greenwood, a former hedge fund manager whose taste for expensive teddy bears garnered a good deal of attention, pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud, admitting that he cheated charities, schools, pension funds and others out of at leas...
Betsey Johnson, Fashion Designer The New York Times | The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan opens its Eloise suite today. As befits the hotel-dwelling storybook heroine whose favorite words include “Charge it, please,” it won’t be cheap. In fact, it will be so pricey you may wish to hide any ...
World's richest man, Carlos Slim, buys New York mansion The Times Of India NEW YORK: Mexican Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, has bought a magnificent mansion in New York for a whopping $44 million. | Slim already owns a major interest in the New York Times and a major office building in Manhattan. | He has now bought ...
Firefighters rescue man stuck in wall during fire The Examiner Comments KEIZER, Ore. (Map, News) - Keizer firefighters have rescued a man who got himself stuck in a bathroom wall when the dinner he was cooking caught fire in the kitchen. | Keizer Fire District officials say the homeowner was in his bathroom Tuesday evening when he heard his smoke alarm sound. He opened the door to heavy smoke and flames, so he...
AMC's drama 'Rubicon' conspires to thrill viewers Nashville Tennessean NEW YORK — If you let it, will get in your head. It quietly haunts you with its dark possibilities. It lulls you while it keeps you on edge. It's a scrumptious tease, a seductive conspiracy thriller that serves up far more questions than answers (in early episodes, anyway). | Just one thing is certain on Rubicon, which premieres Sunday at 7 p.m. on...
