Parties

eMedia Vitals is not your normal aggregation site. Instead, it lends its arms out to publishers and content producers as well. While most aggregators are content to just piggy-back on other people's content and get whatever pageviews or ad sales are to be found out there, eMedia working with them to create revenue for their product.

Last night, the new media company held a launch party at New York's social bar. Pictures after the jump.

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If all the recent layoff news has driven you to drink, then you're in luck.

Next Tuesday, mediabistro.com is throwing a cocktail party at Tribeca Cinemas hosted by yours truly, FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst. There will be $5 beer and wine, networking and a chance to commiserate, swap war stories, make new friends or just trade gossip.

Here are all the details:

When: Tuesday, November 10, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Where:
Tribeca Cinemas, Lower Lounge
54 Varick Street
at Laight Street
New York, NY

RSVP here

Hope to see you there.

(Photo via Flickr)

Last night, New York public radio station WNYC threw a gala at Gotham Hall to celebrate its recent acquisition of New York's classical radio station WQXR and honor its former owner, The New York Times Co.

Hosted by Alec Baldwin, the evening featured performances by folksinger Judy Collins and opera diva Deborah Voigt. David Sanger, a New York Times correspondent and host of the "Washington Report" on WQXR -- and grandson of the station's founder Elliott Sanger -- presented the Times Co. with an award, accepted by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., commemorating the company's stewardship of WQXR since 1944.

Later, Baldwin announced that the winner of the evening's raffle would get a radio -- actually, an Internet radio tuned to WQXR. "The New York Times got a piece of glass, for the millions and millions of dollars they've coughed up," he said. "A piece of glass. The winner of the raffle gets a radio."

(Video and more pictures after the jump)

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Richard Blakeley and Nick McGlynn - Image via Random Night Out

Last night, media bar Destination (co-owned by Dan Maccarone of Hard Candy Shell, which has redesigned major media sites from Gawker to Eater) hosted a book release party for This Is Why You're Fat, a meme-to-book deal in the six figures co-written by Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley and Buzzfeed's Jessica Amason. The event was co-hosted by Obliterati, a monthly media party started by Nick McGlynn of Random Night Out after Blakeley discontinued his Media Meshing soirees last year.

Earlier in the day, Amason hosted a book release celebration of her own, asking dedicated foodies to travel between six food trucks around the city, order a special This Is Why You're Fat-inspired culinary creation and post pictures of themselves eating it to Twitter. The event, dubbed the "Eat N Tweet Challenge," kicked off at 11 a.m., and by the time we made our way to the Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream at 5th Ave and 23rd St. at 1 p.m., McGlynn had already claimed victory. His prize? A private party for 25 friends, catered by the food truck of his choice.

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We spent last night with a group of single men eager to take their shirts off.

No, it wasn't a Chippendales performance, but Cosmopolitan magazine's party to celebrate the hottest bachelors in the U.S. -- with one hottie representing each state.

"We look for pecs and personalities," Cosmo editor Kate White told us about the magazine's bachelor selection process, minutes after she had found herself surrounded by a parade of shirtless men. "It's also a good way for us to get into men's heads. It's sort of a petri dish of American men."

White spent the beginning of the evening standing on the end of a catwalk introducing the single men -- many of which decided to remove their shirts to show off well-toned pecs and six-pack abs. "What happens at the Cosmo bachelor party, stays at the Cosmo bachelor party," White said. Later, after forgetting to announce Illinois' bachelor, White said, "I hope you know I'm going to be fired in the morning for that."

In years past, the event has culminated with a selection of the hottest bachelor in the country, but White told us that due to the economy, all of the selected bachelors would be winners this year. From the buzz around the party (and our own opinions) Ohio bachelor Matt Smith would surely have won the crown had it been awarded this year. We also got a chance to talk to bachelors from Oregon, Wyoming, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Oklahoma representative Alain Le told us that while in New York he had tried to hit on Mary Louise Parker and Jane Krakowski at a bar, having no idea who they were. "They had to look themselves up on their iPhones to show me they were famous," he told us. Aw, so cute.

Above, you can watch our video from the night, including White's comments on the catwalk and the shirtless man parade. After the jump, more photos from the night.

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On Wednesday, we took a rare dip in the advertising world to check out the celebration commemorating the first anniversary of One Club/Aversity, a non-profit organization established to promote multiculturalism and diversity in creative media industries like advertising.

Founder Julius Dunn and members of the program's advisory board like David Prince, Singleton Beato of JWT, Sallie Mars of McCann Erickson and One Club's Tiffany Edwards made quick speeches paying tribute to the important initiative, then a DJ and Smirnoff drinks got everyone into a party mood.

More pictures after the jump

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Irving Penn, an American photography icon known for his photographs of fashion and celebrities, died yesterday in New York at age 92.

Although Penn was best known for his work in Vogue, another Conde Nast magazine, The New Yorker published a portfolio of his work five years ago, which deserves another look today as we remember his talent and contribution to the field of fashion photography.

If more magazines continue to close, the art that Penn helped create might become a dying one.

Postscript: Irving Penn --The New Yorker

Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead At 92 --The New York Times

Spotted Pig owner Ken Friedman and Lockhart Steele

Lockhart Steele hosted a private bash for friends and foodies on the third floor of The Spotted Pig Monday night to celebrate the relaunch of his Eater site. The attendees included Gawker crew new and old: Nick Denton, Neel Shah, Elizabeth Spiers, Foster Kamer and Andrew Krucoff.

There was also a turnout of restaurant owners such as David Chang of Momofuku, and publicist-cum-anecdotalist Sloane Crosley, Fashism founder Brooke Moreland, and FourSquare developers Dennis Crowley and Harry Heymann. Spotted Pig owner Ken Friedman was also on hand to man the festivities.

--by Drew Grant

Earlier: Food Blog Eater To Launch Redesign, Expansion

Last night, we dispatched the male contingent of the FishbowlNY team to what was, without a doubt, the premiere men's fashion destination of the evening (or even, dare we say, the week): GQ's Signature Style event at Saks Fifth Avenue.

The event, packed to the brim with hip and up-and-coming designers for in the men's fashion world, served multiple purposes: It served to direct some dollars toward the Hendrick-Martin institute, an organization that works with GLBTQ youth; it aimed to promote a few talented, young designers; and -- perhaps most importantly for our purposes -- it set out to connect the venerable Gentlemen's Quarterly to a compelling but sometimes elusive demographic.

"We want to connect with young people," the evening's host, GQ style editor Adam Rapoport, told us as the evening was getting underway. GQ is not content to be your older brother's bathroom reader, he explained (though not exactly in those words.)

"It's a great opportunity to promote these young designers and show that we have on eye on what's going on in this area of men's fashion," he added.

More from the event, including pictures, after the jump.

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Next Tuesday, come join FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst for an evening of drinks and mingling with fellow media professionals.

We'll be hosting a mediabistro.com cocktail party on October 6 at Onieals, the Soho bar that was the setting for the "Sex and the City" episode where Steve and Aidan open a bar. (Admit it, you totally know what we're talking about.)

There'll be drink specials and free food, and we won't even make you give us a $10 donation -- there will be no cover.

Here are all the details:

When:
Tuesday, October 6
6:30 - 8:30pm

Where:
Onieals
174 Grand Street
between Lafayette & Mulberry

RSVP here.

Hope to see you there.