Twelve years ago, a trio of Wall Street upstarts founded the anti-establishment Robin Hood Foundation. So how did a guerrilla charity benefit become the hottest ticket in town?

McCain-besotted reporters take his defeat one day at a time.

Gina Glantz is the point guard on the Jersey boy's team.

A futuristic reincarnation of the Brasserie -- once the hippest restaurant in midtown -- is rising from the ashes in the Seagram Building, the work of a pair of cutting-edge architects and a restaurateur ready for his star turn.

U.N. ambassador Dick Holbrooke's hyperaggressive style has made him perhaps the country's most successful diplomat since Kissinger. And now he's using his glittering connections to bring the U.N. into the fabric of the city's social life.

The convention's more than a year away, but the Gore and Bradley camps are already waging a townhouse-to-townhouse fund-raising war in Manhattan. Gore may have the Establishment clout, but Bradley's got the excitement. . . . Say what?

Eager provocateur and epic carouser Christopher Hitchens has started making some new enemies lately -- his friends. So what's troubling the media's biggest troublemaker?

He knows you better than your shrink. He pays more attention than your spouse. The obsessed owner of Ruby Foo's and six other hot restaurants is trying to make a science of pleasing people.

With the death of owner Glenn Bernbaum, the party's suddenly over at Mortimer's. Café society breaks out the black armbands and exorcises a friend's demons.