Posted Apr. 28, 2008,

About Last Night... The Tennessee After-Party at the Cadillac Lounge at Tenjune

By Caroline Torem Craig

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Ever since Mariah Carey, several years ago, requested myself and another still photographer to walk backwards and photograph her as if we were shooting a music video, I have had a healthy dose of respect for her special kind of, shall we say, self-absorption and focus! The variety of guests at her after-party for the Tribeca Film Fest Tennessee premiere, held at the Cadillac Lounge at Tenjune, was equally enthralling -– from the newly toned Da Brat to the newly married and mellowed Ben Kingsley to the lovable Lyn Whitfield to hottie Nick Cannon to baby-faced temptress Zoe Kravitz, whom we can’t seem to get enough of!

Posted Nov. 12, 2007,

Eight Items or Less: Dinner in the Sky, Three Standards and One QT for Sale and Lotus Changes Hands

By Gary Pini

1. Starting tonight, you and 21 friends can eat dinner while suspended in the air from a crane. Waiter, may we have the check please: $11,444 excluding the food.

2. For Sale: Three Standard Hotels and one QT. Yes, Andre Balazs is selling them, but he wants to keep managing. (from Crains)

3. Popular Science reports that a man has discovered a way to set fire to saltwater by bombarding it with radio waves. Unfortunately the process uses more energy than it produces.

4. A recent call to retractable-roofed, Williamsburg-locatedRadegast Hall and Biergarten, revealed that either tomorrow or Wednesday they'll have a set opening day. Most likely it'll be next week.

5. The Duran Duran shows scheduled for tonight and tomorrow (November 12th and 13th) have been moved to Roseland (235 West 52 St.) due to the strike (stagehands, not writers).

6. New York club Lotus has been sold to the owners of New York club Tenjune.

7. A dead body was found in the men's bathroom of downtown music venue Knitting Factory early Sunday morning.

8. 1 + 1 = Halo! Boys who play video games after homework may have trouble remembering what they just learned, according to the Pediatrics Journal.

Posted Sep. 7, 2007,

Fabian Basabe's Epic Evening

By Fabian Basabe

Let me start off by saying I was nursing an epic hangover all day!! EPIC.

So, after the ADAM show yesterday I went to the "Artrageous" party hosted by Vanity Fair at Bloomingdales. it was an amazing set-up and for a fantastic cause. If I were as talented and artist as some of those whose works were being auctioned, I would paint you a picture, but I just cannot. Think fun, bright lights, beautiful models in balloon fashions, art installations and pretty people. So that's all I needed, but I loved seeing Chris Benz (more on him next week), VF's Darryl Brantley and Bob Collacello.

OK, let’s take a second and talk about this New York City taxi strike!!! I paid 40 dollars to go ten blocks!! Something about crossing zones... what is this, DC? When I was there last for the Presidential Inauguration, I learned the hard way that you can literally take a 30 minute cab ride for six dollars if you stay in one zone, but if you take a cab two blocks and happen to cross a zone it will cost you 27 dollars!!

I miss my Hummer... cabs are bullsh*#t!