Restaurants: Gold-Plate SpecialGroveling will get you nowhere, New York: Three-star-Michelin man Alain Ducasse isn’t going to seat you until he’s good and ready.
The Green TeamTwelve years ago, a trio of Wall Street upstarts founded the anti-establishment Robin Hood Foundation. So how did a guerrilla charity benefit be […]
Politics: Voice of the KnickWhen Rick Stengel was covering the ‘88 and ‘96 presidential races for Time magazine, he often tried to imagine what was going on behind closed d […]
Table StakesA futuristic reincarnation of the Brasserie – once the hippest restaurant in midtown – is rising from the ashes in the Seagram Building, the w […]
Ambassador A-ListU.N. ambassador Dick Holbrooke’s hyperaggressive style has made him perhaps the country’s most successful diplomat since Kissinger. And now he’s […]
Crashing the PartyThe 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 […]
The Boy Can’t Help ItEager provocateur and epic carouser Christopher Hitchens has started making some new enemies lately – his friends. So what’s troubling the medi […]
Steve Hanson Wants You To Be HappyHe 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 […]
No More Mr. Nice GuyWith the death of owner Glenn Bernbaum, the party’s suddenly over at Mortimer’s. Café society breaks out the black armbands and exorcises a […]
Is this man ready for Prime Time?This month, David Westin finally took the helm at ABC News, inheriting a division reeling from colliding egos and sagging ratings. But can a Jim […]
Little Big ManA self-described “short Jewish guy” who slept through yeshiva and did stand-up in the Catskills, Ben Brafman has become one of New Yor […]
