TV Bliss: Gossip girl at 9. Season 4 of Project Runway premieres at 10.
Why does this constitute television history? Because Ms. Jillian Lewis is one of the few fashion students I was actually friends with at Parsons. After losing my job in front of a camera crew (Jane folded on The Fashionista Diaries) and [...]

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Buy this week’s Time Out New York to spot my bffs Lucas and Finessa on page 24 in the “cozy parties” section of Party bars! They’re totally canoodling in front of the fireplace. I arrived to Black Rabbit too late to partake in the party pics, but we all got free drink chips. Yay.

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Yesterday on Jay Street, I ran into my old friend Kalim and his friend Demetre outside of Pedro’s. They were hanging around eating tacos and drinking beer while waiting to start filming an episode of The Dante Fried Chicken Show (the first episode features another old friend, the talented Tokion art director Jesse [...]

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Internet celebrity Andrew Sloat brought this flyer back from the AIGA conference on Tuesday.

He gave us a fine recap of a talk by the phenomenal Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes. Bantjes started out her talk by expressing astonishment to be there, and credited it to the fact that four years ago, she quit doing everything she [...]

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Greetings from Denver. So far, this feels like a cross between a college interview and a regional sales convention. My video went over big (after they presented it wrong once… the left third was missing, so they showed it again. As embarassing as it was, the double exposure and crowd sympathy went miles toward the [...]

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Renda, Andy and I took a field trip to Pedro’s for lunch. Renda ate a tamale. Andy ate rice and beans and beef. I ate a Cuban sandwich.

After lunch, we passed the J condo, which was briefly being considered as the future headquarters of 801a. Main features include private bathrooms, a gym, and [...]

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One of the 801a-ers lives in Boerum Hill, near Heath (Ledger) and Michelle (Williams). Word on the web is that they’re calling it quits. I’m pretty sure one or both of them is moving out. How do I know?

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