The Junket Generation: The Thrillist Jet Blue Starbucks JetMystery Junket Attendee List @4:00 PM
Over the weekend, the website Thrillist, in cooperation with their partners Jet Blue and Starbucks and Sandals Resorts and some other fine businesses, threw a free mystery-destination weekend junket vacation for around 150 people—bloggers, PR people, reporters, tech folks and other youngsters. They ended up in Jamaica! Who were they all? It's hard to tell, if you don't get out much. From Googling super-hard, though, we've come up with about 1/3rd of the guest list. This is useful to have on the record. READ MORE 40
Excellent Advice from Gossip Columnist and Lesbian Elsa Maxwell @3:35 PM
"Denise Hale went on to recall that when she first arrived in New York, aged 22, the society hostess Elsa Maxwell advised her how to throw great parties: 'Be ruthless, my child. Don't invite your favorite aunt and all your cousins.'" 6
What Are Things Like In The Hamptons Now? Party With Whitney Port And Pepsi! @1:35 PM
From our inbox, an invite to a party that you can attend in the Hamptons this weekend, with Whitney Port and Pepsi! Oh, you're what? Stabbing yourself in the eyes with your own toenails instead? 12
Taste of the Nation NYC: Drunk, Awkward, Fun! @1:00 PM
The food was good, actually really good. Or some of it was. Some was bad. That's how it is with food. Last night's Taste of the Nation NYC benefit, held at Roseland Ballroom, gave New York's foodies a chance to put on their fancy clothes and get fairly-to-very drunk on the many, many varieties of alcohol being served, all for a very good cause. It was foodie prom. READ MORE 9
White House Press Parties Shrink Radically, Unbelievably @4:30 PM
There is no way this is true. This year, says the New York Observer, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg News are actually co-hosting an afterparty for the White House Correspondent's Dinner. (In previous years, they've been "competing" parties. Which is to say, one was at an embassy, the other was at Chris Hitchen's not-so-big apartment.) According to Vanity Fair's publicist Beth Kseniak, "the entire guest list will be trimmed to just 200 people." Highly unlikely! 2
