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The Wee Hours: The Last Days of M. Wells Diner
Diner off the tracks! The general manager of M. Wells, perhaps one of the best-reviewed new restaurants of the year, didn’t want to talk about the sexual harassment scandal. “The only people that know...
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It’s Ryan Trecartin’s House Party, We’re Just Living In It
From the flyer, downloaded off the Internet. Where do we go from here? It was still the last light of a late August day but the cement courtyard of PS1, in Long Island City, had already been taken over...
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The Wee Hours: Fashion Gets Fratty for Alexander Wang's Keg Party
Alexander Wang x Busch Light A few minutes before midnight on Sept. 10, The Observer walked along Pier 40 staring at the impaired skyline of Lower Manhattan, the lights from the buildings reflecting...
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The Wee Hours: LiLo Crashes Marc Jacobs Bash Before Jagger Struts On In
Every ballroom has a backdoor. The hotel guests at Dream Downtown had suitcases, satchels and children piled up next to the check-in counter, waiting interminably for a chance at a room, and as they...
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The Wee Hours: Steven Brill’s Uptown Book Bash, and Doctor Doom’s Downtown...
Mr. Brill, Mr. Curry “There aren’t many dissenters in the room,” said another young man at the party Monday night for Steven Brill’s new book, Class Warfare, about education reform in the United...
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Big Snare On Kenmare: The Wee Hours Tracks Down the Men Who Mugged Us
"We were a bit dinged up." The unmarked cop car sped out into the late night cobwebbed streets of Nolita at 3 a.m., bursting through red lights, sirens blaring, and ricocheting around turns that shook...
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The Wee Hours: Sex and Death at Alice Tully Hall
Ms. Mulligan, Ms. Williams, Ms. Dunst. “Wow, this is it, this view, New York City!” Michael Fassbender said after opening the door to the roof of the Standard, where the glass buildings lining the West...
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The Wee Hours: Occupy Easy Street!
Almost a month after a group of well-educated New Yorkers first unrolled their sleeping bags in Zuccotti Park, The Observer took a taxicab to 64th Street and Fifth Avenue to attend a gathering at the...
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The Wee Hours: Bryce Dallas Howard’s New Film? Canon Fodder
Illo: Zina Saunders Ron Howard fits snugly in the category of people and things that are loved unreservedly, along with pita chips, Gchat and money. So it was not especially surprising that his...
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Orphan Club Kids Spend Thanksgiving in Chinatown
Illustration by Peter Arkle We were waiting in line outside Red Egg, an unassuming Chinese restaurant in Nolita, a little before 1 a.m. on Saturday night, when we overheard something we wished we could...
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The Wee Hours Takes a Vacation—To Bahamian Dissipation
Is it self-awareness or self-loathing? (Peter Arkle) The grand plan was to stay sober for the month of January, and it failed. It collapsed the moment we touched down in the Bahamas and felt the silky...
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Lil Wayne State: Weezy’s Board-core Men’s Line Rolls into Chelsea
What? Doesn't everyone dress like this? A few minutes before Lil Wayne and his entourage walked into El Privado, a low-lit basement space beneath Chelsea’s Hotel Americano, a fellow attendee turned to...
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Enchanté, Le Baron!: Andre Saraiva’s Parisian Bordello Lands in Chinatown
He's Andre Saraiva. Who the hell are you? The huddled masses on the corner of Mulberry and Mosco had waited for a long time. They had waited through 700 days of planning, they had waited outside...
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Purple Magazine Brings Fashion Week Frenzy to the Boom Boom Room
Olivier Zahm is French. Can you tell? In the wake of last Saturday’s Purple Magazine party, we were left with several questions: What is it about Fashion Week mag soirées that seems to whip everyone...
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Time is on Our Side: The Royal Oak (It’s a Watch) Turns 40
This guy knows what time it is! Used to the more snug confines of downtown boîtes, The Observer approached the hulking Park Avenue Armory with trepidation last Wednesday. We were there for what turned...
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