Overheard: from a blonde girl on the way in to last night's Guest of a Guest party to benefit Haiti, featuring Mark Ronson among others: "Wait — it's not open bar?" And Port-au-Prince thinks it knows suffering.

Last night on the Lower East Side, nearing the intersection of Stanton and Orchard, the smell of burning brakes hung in the air. On Orchard, in front of the shuttered Slipper Room, two cars lay crushed under tons of rubble. A husk of another vehicle flamed nearby. Immediately the recent events of 7/18 came to mind. I started to run.