Working the Room

We hit the Pacific Design Center last night for a party celebrating the recently published book Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity Worldwide. The book was authored by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. How cute is that? Only Kristof attended the party, however - his wife, he explained, was home taking care of the couple's three children.

Kristof with Andrea Wong, President and CEO of Lifetime Networks.

Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat (in pink) with friends.

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We rounded out yesterday evening by boozing it up at a party for the west coast faction of online newspaper The Faster Times at Hotel Palomar in Westwood.

Deborah Vankin of Brand X and journalist Joshuah Bearman.

Mickey Kaus of Slate and Richard Rushfield of Gawker

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We were busy last night. First stop was the blogger social hosted by the Press Club for cheese, crackers, and a panelist discussion of the many issues surrounding online media.

FBLA editor Tina Dupuy and Erin Broadley of the LA Weekly

Jesus Sanchez of The Eastsider LA and Joseph Mailander of minor arcana put names to faces.

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The LA Weekly held a party for new editor-in-chief Drex Heikes at the Hotel Figueroa this past Saturday. For an event with a no-host bar, the turnout was impressive. Here are a few of the people we blinded with the flash from our camera:

Photographer Shannon Cottrell and journalist Sophia Kercher

FBLA editor Tina Dupuy and LAW editor Drex Heikes

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The turnout for Mediabisto's party last night at Ecco Lounge in Hollywood was huge - and mostly female. No doubt the ladies were there in force to meet special guest Kristin Harmel, the popular chick-lit author. Harmel was there mingling with the crowd, signing complimentary copies of her latest novel, Italian for Beginners, and generally being adorable.

Writer/producer Margaret Howell and Creative Groove founder Jen Jones

FBLA editor Tina Dupuy with journalists L. J. Williamson and George Ducker

A few more shots from the prom, held Wednesday night on the rooftop of the Andaz Hotel.

Erin Broadley of LA Weekly and Laurie Percival of Lalawag.

The lovely barmaid.

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We tracked down former DNC Chairman Dr. Howard Dean at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Con. Then we made him pose with us and made Fortune's editor at large Adam Lashinsky take the picture. Good times.

Follow all the quip by quip action for the rest of the conference on our Twitter feed @fishbowlla

Well, half of Franklin Avenue. Mike's wife Maria Villar was home being very pregnant with the couple's second child. Franklin Ave is one of our favorite local blogs, so we were happy to run into whatever percentage was available for the evening.

Pandora Young and Michael Schneider.

We made new friends at Blogger Prom, when we weren't fighting about why Tina didn't bring Pandora a corsage. It's always nice to put faces to bylines.

Tina Dupuy with LAist editor (and prom king) Zach Behrens.

LA Metbloggers Travis Koplow, Lucinda Michele Knapp, Julia Frey, Jocelyn Wang (aka JozJozJoz), and Mykal Burns.

The invite told us we were among the select few invited to the Blogger Prom, an exciting event for the Los Angeles blogging community. It contained words like "exclusive", "awesome" and "free booze." And unlike our high school prom, there was no restraining order to keep us from attending.

The big event was last night, and yes, it was a cheesefest. But don't we look happy?

Surprisingly, Kevin Roderick was not in attendance. Something incredibly important must have kept him away.