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How Green Is His Valley? At Vanity Fair's Enviro-Bash, Brokaw Brags of Bison

Irina Aleksander — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:05:14 -0400

On Monday, April 28, in the subterranean auditorium of the New York Public Library, Vanity Fair hosted a cocktail hour and convocation of experts grandly titled “Redesigning the World: A Green Way to the Future.” And environmentally concerned New Yorkers Mary Richardson Kennedy (wife of Robert Kennedy Jr.< read more »

Mag as Hell!

Observer Staff — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:51:15 -0400

Freelance Fizzle! read more »

Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?

John Koblin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:07:32 -0400

In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whoooosh, words and photos from Vanity Fair will suddenly appear. read more »

St. Vincent's Hospital Redevelopment: Won't Someone Think of the Waverly Inn?

Choire Sicha — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:03:05 -0400

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter showed up almost three hours in to this morning's Landmarks Preservation Committee meeting on the proposed St. Vincent's Hospital rebuilding in the West Village.

"I'm against it!" he said. The proposed towers would very nearly cast a shadow over his nearby restaurant, the Waverly Inn, after all. read more »

Diller, Graydon Put Oscar Parties on Chiller, But Others Plow Ahead

Spencer Morgan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:54:18 -0500

With the writers’ strike and all, what’s goin’ on with the Oscar parties? read more »

Solidarity! Vanity Fair Cancels Oscar Party

Tom McGeveran — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:51:43 -0500

Vanity Fair just announced that they are planning to cancel their annual Oscars after-party.

Here's the entire announcement, as posted on VF Daily this afternoon:

After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party. We want to congratulate all of this year’s nominees and we look forward to hosting our 15th Oscar party next year.

Magazine Nabobs Resolve in 2008 to Kick Bad Habits: Waverly Inn, Post

David Foxley — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:15:13 -0500

Each New Year brings with it the obligatory slate of resolutions. And like some college-level sociological experiment, each New Year also brings with it a slate of stories about what famous people have resolved to either quit—smoking, say—or begin—usually something kind of boring, like marathon training or French classes. True to form, WWD recently called some executives in the magazine world to ask them what they hope to accomplish, respectively, in 2008.

Vanity Fair honcho Graydon Carter, who also happens to own a restaurant famous for its tony, truffled mac ‘n’ cheese, is working towards “less food, more exercise.” Meanwhile, Mr. Carter’s publisher, Edward Menicheschi, wants more-or-less the same thing, though he was slightly more specific, aiming to “cut back to four nights a week at the Waverly.” read more »

Spitzer Pits Remnick Against Carter in Conde Nast Duel

John Koblin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:02:27 -0500

Back in August, New Yorker editor David Remnick assigned writer Nick Paumgarten a profile on Eliot Spitzer’s rocky first year as governor. In late September, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter assigned writer David Margolick a profile on Eliot Spitzer’s rocky first year as governor.

Mr. Paumgarten had his first conversation with Mr. Spitzer two weeks after Labor Day—the first of six conversations they’d have by around the time Mr. Margolick first approached the Spitzer camp. In the end, Mr. Margolick would meet with Mr. read more »

This Is Café Society?

Spencer Morgan — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400

At around 11:30 last Saturday night, two men of equally modest stature—one in a gray suit, the read more »

Tears at the Old Town

David Foxley — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:00:00 -0500

When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. read more »