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Page Six is reporting that designer Marc Jacobs married his partner, Lorenzo Martone, despite Mr. Jacobs' rep's public denial of the story. [FWD]

Jon Voight has penned an op-ed in the Washington Times comparing Barack Obama's campaign to Marxist propaganda and predicting that if Senator Obama is elected president, we will "live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way." [Us Weekly]

Restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow's 22-year-old son, Zachary Chodorow, has been selling $20 kobe beef hot dogs from a cart outside the Lily Pond nightclub in East Hampton nextdoor to his father's Kobe Club restaurant.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/style/morning-memo-7-29-08#comments Style Damien Hirst Dana Vachon Jon Voight Peter Som Zachary Chodorow Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:40:14 -0400 Irina Aleksander 72505 at http://www.observer.com Bingo Says Bye-Bye Byrdie! But for Phoebe Eaton and Dana Vachon, Love Is Perfuming the April Air http://www.observer.com/2008/bingo-says-bye-bye-byrdie-phoebe-eaton-and-dana-vachon-love-perfuming-april-air

Spring is in the air, the birds are chirping and the town’s notable couples are hooking up and splitting up like wild dogs on the prairie.

In recent weeks, socialites Byrdie Bell and Bingo Gubelmann split.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/bingo-says-bye-bye-byrdie-phoebe-eaton-and-dana-vachon-love-perfuming-april-air#comments Style Dana Vachon Phoebe Eaton Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:33:46 -0400 Spencer Morgan 67919 at http://www.observer.com Let Them Eat Steak: How the Economic Downturn Impacts You http://www.observer.com/2008/let-them-eat-steak-how-economic-downturn-impacts-you

Today's New York Times reports that 81 percent of respondents in a Times/CBS News poll believe that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track" in the U.S.

According to The Times' David Leonhardt and Marjorie Connelly, "two in three people said they believed the economy was in recession today." Twenty-eight percent answered that they've been falling behind financially in the past couple of years.

But if you enjoy the occasional steak at Palm Too, you already knew the economy was in trouble.

In a Fortune magazine column penned by Dealbreaker founder Elizabeth Spiers this week, the writer cites a friend, "a former real estate investment banker who got out of investment banking comfortably before subprime mortgages hit the fan," who contends that the price of filet mignon at Palm Too is a serious indicator of inflation.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/let-them-eat-steak-how-economic-downturn-impacts-you#comments Dana Vachon Elizabeth Spiers Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:09:12 -0400 Matt Haber 67410 at http://www.observer.com Have You Met My Friend...Before? http://www.observer.com/node/32799 "Ever wondered whether greasing the right palm will get you a leg up in this town? The answer is, in the right time and place, it definitely can." - BRIBERY...WILL GET YOU ANYWHERE, by Chris Erikson, The New York Post, February 8, 2006.

"Why pay several hundred dollars for a scalped ticket when the hand of a willing bouncer might be greased for only 50? Of course, bribery is illegal, and I felt filthy even thinking about it. But the summer changes people, and as the days grew long and warm, I resolved to try my hand." - Allow Me to Introduce My Friend, Andrew Jackson, by Dana Vachon, The New York Times, September 5, 2004.

"When it comes to the language of money, credit cards are nouns. Dull, concrete, limited by rules and restrictions and creepy fine print, credit cards have all the élan of aluminum foil. Personal checks--the coward's stand-in for cash--are ugly and static pronouns. But a twenty-dollar bill, now, that's a thing of beauty. Nothing static about a twenty. Used correctly, a twenty is all about movement, access, cachet. Forget the other bills." - The $20 Theory of the Universe, by Tom Chiarella, Esquire, March, 2003. —Matt Haber]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32799#comments Media Chris Erikson Dana Vachon Tom Chiarella Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:00:10 -0500 Observer Staff 32799 at http://www.observer.com Costume Drama http://www.observer.com/2005/costume-drama On the evening of Monday, May 2, as rain pelted down from the sky (as has been its wont in prior yea  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2005/costume-drama#comments Media Al Sharpton Chanel SA Dana Vachon Tahiti Sun, 08 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400 Jessica Bruder, Ben Smith, Sheelah Kolhatkar and Rebecca Dana 50763 at http://www.observer.com