Live Blogging Top Chef Week 1 and the Top Chef Masters Finale
Gabriel Snyder · 08/19/09 07:00PMA Clown, A Princess, and a Fairy Walk into a Bar...
Brian Moylan · 08/19/09 06:08PMTom DeLay Is Gabbing With the Cable Bloviators
Pareene · 08/19/09 05:42PMYou Know Who Else Was a Grammar Nazi?
Ryan Tate · 08/19/09 05:21PMPeople Don't Hate You Cause You're Gay. They Hate You Because You're an Asshole.
Brian Moylan · 08/19/09 05:16PMFox News' Guide to Winning an Argument: Recut the Tape
John Cook · 08/19/09 05:11PMEating & Drinking: Wednesday Edition
cityfile · 08/19/09 04:33PM• Danny Meyer will open a new restaurant in the Gramercy Park Hotel this November. Now it has a name. It will be called Maialino, or "little pig" in Italian, which was Meyer's nickname when he lived in Rome. [GS]
• Today in restaurant reviews: Frank Bruni issues his final review for the Times this week, giving the decidedly DIY eatery The Redhead a star; Time Out's Jay Cheshes hands out four out of five stars to Daniel Boulud's DBGB; the Daily News' Danyelle Freeman is pretty disappointed with Civetta; Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton samples the $100 platter of fried chicken at David Chang's Momofuku; and Alan Richman of GQ files a report on Sorella on the Lower East Side.
• Will Goldfarb and Kevin Pomplun's barbecue food truck, Picnick Smoked, has only been open a few days, but it's already totally overwhelmed. [GS]
Shep Smith Has an HD Surprise for Us!
Pareene · 08/19/09 04:29PMStudio B With Shepar Smith's new HD weather graphics? They do not really seem completely finished, maybe. But still, Fox is 200% more high-def than all the other cable news networks! Plus!
His Age or Their IQ?
Brian Moylan · 08/19/09 03:52PMTipster: Mismanaged Gen Art 'Deserves to Die'
Hamilton Nolan · 08/19/09 03:52PMPeaches Geldof Saves Mali
Hamilton Nolan · 08/19/09 03:38PMThis Week In Depressing Polls
Pareene · 08/19/09 03:32PMThe McSteamy Naked Threesome Gets the Celebrity Weekly Treatment
Brian Moylan · 08/19/09 03:16PMApple Has a Big Back End
Ryan Tate · 08/19/09 03:13PMCrush The Hippies and Thieves And Feed Them to Real Americans
Hamilton Nolan · 08/19/09 02:55PMWalter Noel Makes His Grand Return
cityfile · 08/19/09 02:54PM
Andrés Piedrahita may have canceled his summer cruise down the Dalmatian coast aboard his $22 million yacht, but other members of the family are still getting outside for some fun in the sun. A source tells us—and we've since confirmed—that Walter Noel, the founder of the Fairfield Greenwich Group, Piedrahita's father-in-law, and the man who "lost" $7 billion of his investors' money to Bernie Madoff's epic scam, is golfing once again. After taking a year-long hiatus, Noel returned to the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton last week for the first time since August 2008. And he's been back two times since then. It's hard to blame him. Once he's indicted this fall, he probably won't have much time to practice his swing, now will he? You'll find Noel's score history—which indicates his golf game hasn't suffered much since he hit the links last summer—below.
Don Hewitt Dies; Condé Nast Under the Microscope
cityfile · 08/19/09 01:53PM• Don Hewitt, the man who invented 60 Minutes, is dead at 86. [CBS, NYT]
• Those McKinsey consultants at Condé Nast have commenced their work. The first order of business: a review of Vogue and Condé Nast Traveler. [NYO]
• Related: Anna Wintour is "said to have told" Condé boss Si Newhouse that "she would welcome McKinsey to her offices." So welcome, guys! [WWD]
• Nine companies are said to be eyeing BusinessWeek, the struggling title owned by McGraw-Hill. The front-runner, according to the Post's Keith Kelly: financier Bruce Wasserstein, who also owns New York magazine. [NYP]
• Is Fox News going to fire Glenn Beck given all his insane comments and all the advertisers who have since abandoned the show? Alas, no. [DailyFinance]













