by Allison Medoff Tuesday Jun 9 2009

The House That Max Built

A piece of petrified wood is the inspiration for the decor of fashion designer Max Azria’s home. Designed by a wife with extravagant taste, Lubov crafted every detail of each room single-handedly, after their decorator quit on Lubov’s insistence of her petrified wood in the foyer. It serves as the base to a cascading crystal [...]

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by Natasha Dorsainvil Monday Jun 8 2009

Mayor Bloomberg Cuts Ribbon for NYC’s New High Line Park

Today Mayor Bloomberg and other New York elected officials took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the High Line in New York City.
Although today’s ceremony unveiled phase one of the project, this new and very green addition to the cement city will stretch through the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea, and [...]

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by Natasha Dorsainvil Friday Jun 5 2009

Buffalo Bill Gates’ New Ranch

You can call him Buffalo Bill Gates because the Microsoft billionaire just bought a ranch that used to belong to Buffalo Bill, the poster boy of the American west. His new Irma Lake Lodge estate abuts the Shoshone Forest in Wyoming and is dotted with grassy knolls, forests, groves, and four (yes, four) lakes and [...]

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by Natasha Dorsainvil Friday Jun 5 2009

BOVA Cucina Grand Opening With Ronnie Brown and Make-A-Wish Kid

The BOVA Group celebrated the Grand Opening of BOVA Cucina located at 1901 North Military Trail (in the new Wyndham Hotel) in Boca Raton on last Thursday. Formerly Mario’s of Boca, BOVA Cucina launched its new name and design with an action-packed grand opening event which included the Miami Dolphins’ Ronnie Brown presenting a VIP [...]

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by Allison Medoff Thursday Jun 4 2009

Angelina Tops Oprah

Fame. Wealth. Power.  Which celeb has it all?
Fame beat out wealth this year with Angelina Jolie topping this year’s Celebrity 100 list, created by Forbes Magazine.  Oprah Winfrey lost the title, though she continues to be the list’s top earner with $275 million.
Jolie sure has made the name for herself in the eye of the [...]

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by Christina Bohnstengel Wednesday Jun 3 2009

Sotomayor’s West Village Apartment

Who wants to speculate if Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed as the first Latin American Supreme Court Justice when we could be speculating on such important information as what the asking price might be of her West Village apartment?
Should Sotomayor pack it up and relocate to our nation’s capital her current luxury abode on [...]

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by Stephanie Wilson Tuesday Jun 2 2009

Joan River’s Penthouse

Twenty-five years and just as many plastic surgeries ago, Joan River purchased a 5,190-square-foot duplex penthouse in the Upper East Side. That condominium, which is complete with a garden, atop a newly converted 42-foot-wide 1903 mansion in the East 60s just off Fifth Avenue, has been restored, including what had once been the double-height ballroom. [...]

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by Stephanie Wilson Tuesday Jun 2 2009

DVF and Barry Diller Give $10 Million to High Line

The Highline, a defunct railroad that runs above Manhattan, is getting a second life as a new park, which is set to open later this month. This transformation would not have been possible without the $5 million donation in 2005 by Diane Von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller. In a miraculously generous act, the [...]

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by Natasha Dorsainvil Friday May 29 2009

Jay Leno’s Final Show

For the past 17 years, millions of viewers have laughed and winced at Jay Leno’s jokes and antics. During the wee hours of the night and morning, the thought of a skeletal night’s of sleep seemed to be a small sacrifice for a nightly dose of pop culture.
Tonight is sure to be one of those [...]

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by Natasha Dorsainvil Friday May 29 2009

Prince, Polo, and a Purpose

Prince Harry is making a stop in New York’s Governor’s Island tomorrow, May 30th. The 2nd annual Manhattan Polo Classic will be the occasion and helping to raise much-needed money for American Friends of Sentabale is the purpose. The charity was co-founded by HRH. All proceeds from the event will help benefit the children of [...]

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