All’s well that ends well, and it was a swell farewell to Chris McCarthy and Nancy Jaffe Friday night Oct. 17th at the Suzy Wong Lounge below E & O Restaurant on Houston St. Donned in black, and Nancy in a hot-to-trot leather skirt, I mused how well they’ll fit in with the Valley counterparts….
In this issue:A Brother reaches outWine and PC WorldBasketball @ SonicNet October 17, 1997 A Brother reaches out AMIDST THE LATEST technology hype, there are personal stories in the Silicon Alley that rarely get told. Here is one. Brett Leveridge publishes the well-known BrettNews online zine and works as features editor for Barnes & Noble’s…
“Oh you simply MUST try the truffles,” cooed the English-accented voice near me. I turned and it was Jan Biggs with her husband Jeremy Biggs of Helix Software. Standing nearby, Pat Altman of RDA International agreed. How could I resist such temptation, especially when paired with such a fine Port? The PC World Annual Wine…
No fine wines and hors d’oeuvres at the SonicNet party, though. No Thank You, Ma’am. Just Rolling Rocks and a small plate of crumbled crackers and dry cheese. Well, what do you expect when there’s a half-sized basketball court in the office, and the Chat Diva, Marti Zimlin is holding her own court at the…
In this issue:John Perry Barlow’s 50thWebCinema pulls all the stops October 10, 1997 John Perry Barlow's 50th WHERE ELSE WOULD you find Spaulding Grey, Ed Bennett and Stacy Horn all in the same room? At John Perry Barlow’s 50th birthday party, of course. It was set inthe Gemini Lounge in the East Village last week,…
WHERE ELSE WOULD you find Spaulding Grey, Ed Bennett and Stacy Horn all in the same room? At John Perry Barlow’s 50th birthday party, of course. It was set in the Gemini Lounge in the East Village last week, where the dark gray brushed steel walls and deep eggplant hexagonal columns section off low eggplant…
CHAOS WAS THE WELL-NAMED venue for Webcinema and CNI Cinema’s party Tuesday celebrating the upcoming feature film production “Silicon Alley.” The invitation promised “the Digerati and Gliterati converge,” but I think it was more just a lot of actors posing for Jonathan Sarno and a few producers. Witness tall, svelte, milky-skinned Rhonda Roenfeldt, who was…
In this issue:Flatiron Partners’ new officesBaldwin and D'Caprio–and new media?Russian Web Girls 850th Celebration October 3, 1997 Flatiron Partners’ new offices Unveiling a stunning new office suite straight out of the pages of Architectural Digest that looked like it cost as much as many Silicon Alley companies have for seed money, the Flatiron Partners opened…
From the full issue: New York – October 3, 1997 (Full Issue) * Pictures compliments of Ken Schaffer and his Olympus Digital Camera 320DL. Legend at end of article Cut-crystal and silver buckets filled with mounds of fresh caviar were passed around at the Russian Web Girls second party at the Gallery at 678 Broadway…
Related Links:MSNBC, You Know Me!SonicNet, Sherry Netherlands, Conde Nast, PseudoOpen Sesame September 26, 1997 MSNBC, you know me MSNBC, you know me . . . Well we all already know about the little social faux pas that happened last week with the MSNBC party. It’s bad enough if you have to uninvite guests (especially if…