birthdays

Pope Birthday Cheese Selection Revealed!

Hamilton Nolan · 04/23/08 03:25PM

A restaurant owner in DC writes an essay about the experience of hosting the Pope's birthday party. He started planing the event six months in advance. He ordered a 12 square-foot cake in the shape of St. Peter's Square that was too beautiful to cut. He even flew to Italy just to get the plates made! The lunch menu included imported Puglia mozzarella, zucchini blossom truffle tagliolini, braised veal cheeks, and orange fallen truffle. Not mentioned: the tip. [WP]

Nicholas Carlson · 03/14/08 11:23AM

Happy 20th birthday, the Internet's favorite song! [WSJ]

Creepy Men Who Define Themselves Through Their Associations To Anna Nicole Celebrate Her 40th Birthday

seth · 11/28/07 02:25PM

Had she lived, Anna Nicole Smith would have been 40 years old today; she'd also very likely be disoriented, naked but for a set of lipstick cat whiskers, and wandering around the lobby of a Florida Hard Rock hotel with a nearby Howard K. Stern capturing every pratfall on Hi-8. As ever-tabloid-present in death as she was in her drug-addled years on Earth, Entertainment Tonight commemorates the posthumous milestone by approaching the two most essential mapping points on the love-polygon that defined much of her life—Stern and Larry Birkhead:

Happy 46th Birthday, Ann Coulter!

abalk2 · 12/08/06 08:40AM

We want to take a brief moment out of our hectic day to celebrate a very important milestone in the life of one of our favorite people: Today marks the 46th birthday of cadaverous acrimony-dispenser Ann Coulter. Coulter, 46, has been a bit quiet of late, perhaps busy reflecting on her own mortality and how, when her end finally comes, all she will have contributed to this world is a legacy of poorly-argued calumny and the suggestion that 9/11 widows blew up the towers themselves for the insurance money (or maybe she's just busy allegedly plagiarizing other people's material for her next book, Assfuckers: How Clinton and Gore Had a Secret Gay Relationship With Osama and Saddam), but in any event, we miss you, Ann: We need your subtle incisiveness back in the the national conversation. Anyway, we were all set to bake you a cake, complete with 47 (one for good luck!) candles in the shape of the New York Times building (fun to watch burn!) but then we remembered that whole snorting-meth-instead-of-eating-food thing, so consider this post our birthday gesture instead. Here's hoping your sail into the shores of 47 is peaceful and untroubled by any further accusations of inaccuracy or literary piracy!

Happy Birthday, Donald Trump!

Jessica · 06/14/06 01:15PM

This fine summer day marks the 60th birthday of Donald Trump, and the 35th birthday of his comb-over. Doesn't it seem like just yesterday that our little Trumpie was screaming at his incompetent Lincoln Logs? Let's take a moment to remember how it all began:

Happy Birthday, Naomi Campbell!

Jessica · 05/22/06 10:10AM

Grab your PDA and chuck it at your nearest co-worker, because it's supermodel Naomi Campbell's 36th birthday! The violent beauty kicked off her celebration yesterday in Dubai, where's she's rented 18 floors of the Burj Al Arab. The party is being hosted by boyfriend Badr Jafar and will last three days; yesterday's theme was all white, tonight's is hip-hop, and tomorrow will be "Brazilian Samba." The guestlist reportedly includes Linda Evangelista, Eva Herzigova, and David and Victoria Beckham — all of whom would rather trek to the sweltering middle east than be on Naomi's bad side.

The Jenny 8. Lee National Birthday Tour: Now in Color!

Jesse · 03/02/06 12:05PM

When we received an email from Jenny Lee last night enquiring which of us was on the birthday beat, we answered honestly and then steeled ourselves for what we assumed would be the inevitable indignance. So you can imagine our surprise when her numerical name appeared in our inbox again moments later bearing not scorn but a gift. Herewith, the actual invitation to the four-city Jennifer 8. Lee 30th-birthday extravaganza, as delivered to invitees, and submitted by Ms. 8. Lee herself:

The Jenny 8. Lee National Birthday Tour

Jesse · 03/01/06 01:33PM

Hoping for a chance to wish a happy birthday to your favorite numeraled reporter? Have we got good news for you today, then. The Jennifer 8. Lee 30th-birthday extravaganza will be making a four-stop U.S. tour. We hear from people fortunate enough to be invited that select friends, members of the Harvard-alumni Yahoo listserv, Times colleagues, man-daters, and Amandra Tree recently received a real, old-fashioned, paper invite on card stock, bearing on its front the image of a Chinese food container, chop sticks, and a fortune cookie and on the back this text:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TINA BROWN!

Jessica · 11/21/05 08:35AM

We're sure you already had it marked in your calendars, but just in case, we'd like to remind you that today is the 52nd birthday of Her Media Highness, Tina Brown.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNA WINTOUR!

Jessica · 11/03/05 09:30AM

Just in case you're so pathetic as to not be on top of these things, we'd like to quickly remind you that today is Vogue EIC Anna Wintour's 56th birthday. We're sure her minions are preparing an exquisitely awkward gathering in her office later this afternoon, complete with 56 candles shoved in a slab of undercooked filet. Time to celebrate!