The New York Observer » Nicole Dweck http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Models, Models Everywhere! Fashion Flock Vows Solidarity With Parched Africans Scott Harrison that sells 16 ounces of bottled water for 20 bucks, using the profits to provide clean well H20 to Africans in need.

“Even a year ago, I didn’t Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/models-models-everywhere-fashion-flock-vows-solidarity-parched-africans Oh, Monsieur! I nod my head unconvincingly and try to Google it in my head. How do you spell de Bergerac? Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/oh-monsieur CNN Taps Stars to Honor Ordinary People A snarky report in on Page Six of Wednesday's New York Post claimed that CNN publicists were scrambling this week to convince B-list guests to attend the network's first ever "Hero's Tribute," which took place last night at the Museum of Natural History, after first choices like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did not Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/cnn-taps-stars-honor-ordinary-people MediaBistro.com Party: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby Yesterday evening at the Four Seasons, scores of well-dressed Manhattan women gathered to chat and mingle at the fifth annual Dinner & Dis(course) cocktail and dinner party. The event, organized by MediaBistro.com, drew together an array of female leaders in the magazine industry, along with one visibly uncomfortable male, Media Bistro associate editor Noah Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/mediabistro-com-party-youve-come-long-way-baby Rousing East-Siders, Group Protests Media Depictions of Minorities For the third Saturday in a row, locals were awoken by the shouts of protesters outside the E.65th street mansion of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman. The group, which calls itself the Campaign for Corporate Responsibility in Entertainment, wants Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/rousing-east-siders-group-protests-media-depictions-blacks “New Yorkers Are Party Animals—and So Are the Youth of the Middle East!” Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East.

At 25, Mr. Cohen is the Bush administration's Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/new-yorkers-are-party-animals-and-so-are-youth-middle-east Newser.com Launch Party: “Somebody’s going to reinvent the way people get news!” Newser.com, Michael Wolff's latest project, an innovative online news service that claims to "do the reading for you."

The site, which has been available in beta form since August but Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/newser-com-launch-party-somebodys-going-reinvent-way-people-get-news The Heart of Deafness: Africa With a Hearing Aid THE UNHEARD: A MEMOIR OF DEAFNESS AND AFRICA By Josh Swiller Holt, 265 pages, $14

Some people go to Africa to try to save the world. Others, like Josh Swiller, go to Africa to save themselves.

Josh Swiller lived what a stranger might consider a charmed life. From the cushiony comforts of Manhattan’s Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/heart-deafness-africa-hearing-aid CNN’s Amanpour Awarded CBE Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, who has become a fixture reporting from war zones around the world, was awarded a CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to journalism, the news channel announced. Wearing a large brown hat, a chic cream colored skirt suit, and a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/cnns-amanpour-awarded-cbe CNN Throws Big Bash For Trendy ‘Planet in Peril’ Doc The guest list read like the seating Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/cnn-throws-big-bash-trendy-planet-peril-doc Rushdie, Pamuk Kiss and Make Up After Tiny Tiff On Friday night, Salman Rushdie was talking about Dorothy—that is, the Dorothy portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz.

Her mantra—“There’s noplace like home!”—is apparently not shared by the literary superstar whose 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, was banned in his native India and resulted in a fatwa against Read More

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