Hey did you know after hours at the Cafe Carlyle is the new hotness? This is what it means to be the new hotness: "The other night we walked through. 15-20 Upper East Side types. A couple 40-year-old guys dancing with much younger women. They were doing this really awkward white person dance and listening to Rupert Holmes' 'If you like Pina Coladas.'" [N.B.: Actual song title is '"Escape."]

After we were disappointed by the desultory clustering at the Out magazine party, we headed home to watch reruns of "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style." Mistake! Photographer Nikola Tamindzic headed to a party called Slingback, where all the passion we missed at Lotus was in full effect. The party was hosted by Kenny Kenny, the oldish doorman from Studio 54, JD Samson, everyone's fave mustached lesbian from Le Tigre and Michael T, of the long-running party Motherfucker. Slingbacks are a style of shoe that is slightly slutty and tend to dig into the heel of the wearer. Slingback the party is a very slutty party full of sexual healing. Even more of Nikola's photographs of the party are in his extended gallery.