“How many Americans know that I am here in New York right now?” Chen Guangbiao asks, sitting in an armchair between his translator and his publicist in his suite at the Essex House. “How many media outlets have written about me?” An assistant offers him a cup of jasmine tea, which he blows on pensively. […]
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Sometimes New York City feels like a small town. So it is when Ben Lerer arrives to dinner on a recent Tuesday night at Empellón Taqueria in the West Village. Sitting at one table is a girl he met in Ibiza a few summers back. At the next is one of the founders of Birchbox,
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The weather keeps changing. Five minutes ago, the sky above Key Biscayne was clear blue, the palm trees were swaying in time with the music, and the sun was shining like it been hired for the occasion. Which, given the occasion, didn’t seem entirely implausible. But then, just like that, the air went from sultry
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Earlier this year, when he was preparing to leave his position as secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner gave a series of interviews,including one to New York. Because his post-office plans were a subject of much speculation at the time by everyone, including his own big-mouthed father-in-law, Geithner told New York he had instituted a Rule, which was to
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Can someone get Richard Parsons a proper drink? “I should have asked for a double,” he says, regarding the miniature glass of Moscato in front of him. He cranes his head and beckons the waitress, who whisks it away. “I should have asked for a triple,” he says, when she returns with the glass only
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The McCon-aissance is old news. The question is, what do we call the phase he’s in now? The one in which he not only out-Gekkos Gordon Gekko (The Wolf of Wall Street) but turns in one of the most transformative performances in memory (Dallas Buyers Club)? The Pax-McConaughey? We’re going with the McConaugh-reign. Long may it last! So
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Last week, a judge in California finally decided the fate of a violent and damaged child who murdered his neo-Nazi father a few years ago, when he was just 10 years old. Amy Wallace reports on the tragic, impossible case of Jeff and Joseph Hall A son kills a father and the question is why.
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How do you become the iconic bombshell of this generation? If you’re Kate Upton, enviable curves are only the start “Funny story,” a guy who knew Kate Upton in high school wrote not too long ago on the message board for Gamespot.com, a site for video-game news. “She dated a guy our age we knew
Warby Parker has trained its sights on the stylish, “post-wealth” millennial set—as customers and employees. Early one morning this summer, a gaggle of fresh-faced twentysomethings streams into an elevator at the Puck Building on Houston Street. “I like your shoes,” one girl tells another, smiling with a first-day-of-school shyness. They could be mistaken for NYU
With his turn as the eponymous character in this month’s The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer is primed for Hollywood’s A-list “Hi, are you…?” inquires a baritone voice from above. When I look up from my seat to see Armie Hammer leaning over me, well, let’s just say I now understand what it means to swoon.
