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A concerned reader just wrote in to point out where we were remiss.
“…Love your site… but you forgot one picture from the Standard staff Xmas party… lol…”

You’re absolutely right, dear reader! Thank you! Who says the holidays are over? They’re over when we say they’re over. The gifts just keep on coming…

:)

***Earlier: “Celebrate the holidays… with the staff of The Standard Hotel”

All your favorite NYC denizens, captured drunk on video— and slurring their words and everything! What more could you possibly ask for? Now it really feels like Christmas!

:)

See also: “SPOTTED: Indochine’s 25th Anniversary”

• Tuesday, December 8, 2009. 3:30PM – Kanye West lingering outside a dark SUV parked in front of a luxury residential building on West Houston St, with two bodyguard types, a driver, and a very talented young man— who was serenading him acapella right there on the sidewalk. No joke.

• Monday, December 14, 2009. 8:00PM – Sean Paul, with friend, using an Apple MacBook Pro in the American Airlines Admirals’ Club at Miami International airport.

• Sunday, December 13, 2009. 9:30PM – Steve Stoute (with entourage) having dinner and chatting with Michael Chow at Mr.Chow in Miami Beach.

• Wednesday, December 10, 2009. 6:00PM – John Utendahl and Merv Matheson having a drink (and chatting with Sasha Muniak) at the Standard Grill— because "the boom boom" was booked/closed for a private corporate holiday event.

• Tuesday, December 8, 2009. 8:30PM – Matt Dillon, Andre Balazs, Ric Pipino, Justo Artigas, Mark Baker, Cat Wei, Nur Khan, Roy Liebenthal, Ronnie Madra, Natalie Kates, Sasha Muniak, Nick Rytting, and (of course) Sante D’Orazio at the opening night party for the Barely Private exhibit at Milk Studios.

• Tuesday, December 1, 2009. 7:00PM – Manon von Gerkan, King, and Georgina Chapman at the Barely Private by Sante D’Orazio book signing event at Taschen in SoHo.

• Wednesday, November 25, 2009. 3:00PM – Ed Norton entering a townhouse on West 10th St.

• Tuesday, November 24, 2009. 2:30PM – Parker Posey, with little dog, exiting a residential building on Fifth Ave near Washington Square Park.

• Monday, November 30, 2009. 6:00PM – Sam Shepard exiting a residential building on Fifth Ave near Washington Square Park loaded down with shopping bags.

• Tuesday, November 25, 2009. 4:30PM – Sam Shepard picking up supplies at a delicatessen on University Place.

• Tuesday, November 24, 2009. 3:30PM – Willem Dafoe walking alone down 8th St in the Village trying to avoid eye contact with gaping starstruck fans.

• Monday, November 23, 2009. 7:30PM – Lois Freedman, sans broom and melodramatic temper tantrum, at Mermaid Oyster Bar.

• Friday, November 20, 2009. 9:30PM – Stephen Gan, Glenn O’brien, Andre Balazs, Jacqueline Schnabel, Ann Dexter-Jones, Geoffrey Zakarian, Jason Pomeranc, Kenny Kenny, Ronnie Madra, Richard Johnson & Sessa Von Richtofen, Anna Sui, Willem Dafoe, Lauren Ezersky, Lyor Cohen, Tory Burch, Carmen d’Alessio, Merv Matheson, Marc Bagutta, Sean MacPherson, John MacDonald, George Wayne, Steven Greenberg, Sasha Muniak, Liev Schreiber & Naomi Watts, Kamil Parchomienko, Heikki Sorsa, and (of course) Nadine Johnson, Jean-Marc Houmard, Huy Chi Le, Jorg Rae, and Susan Wanzer at the Indochine 25th Anniversary Party.

• Friday, November 20, 2009. 11:50PM – Michael Bay, Caroline Murphy, Liev Schreiber, Thom Filicia, Greg Callejo, Heikki Sorsa, Sasha Muniak, and Kevin King at The BoomBoom/BonBon at the Standard Hotel.

• Thursday, November 19, 2009. 6:30PM – Lucy Liu and Bryant Gumbel at the 25th UNICEF Anniversary Lighting of the Fifth Ave Snowflake at the Louis Vuitton flagship boutique.

• Sunday, November 15, 2009. 4:00PM – Natalia Vodianova, alone, wearing a short black coat and black stockings, leaving The Bowery Hotel and jumping into a big, dark SUV.

• Wednesday, November 18, 2009. 8:30PM – Heikki Sorsa (with snowboard posse) dining at Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano.

• Thursday, November 19, 2009. 8:00PM – Heikki Sorsa (with snowboard posse) dining at La Esquina.

• Tuesday, November 17, 2009. 8:00PM – Former Top Chef contestants Leah Cohen and Hosea Rosenberg dining with friends at Lure Sushi and chatting with Chef Josh Capon.

• Saturday, November 14, 2009. 3:00PM – Armin Amiri having brunch with a friend at Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano.

heikki-sorsa is in town, and i got to meet him. yay! he just may be one of the coolest, sweetest, awesomest, most modest dudes i have ever met :)

so far, sorsa’s jaunts on this current (but brief) visit to NYC include: Hasaki, GustoRistorante e BarAmericano, theModern, Indochine, LaEsquina, Greenhouse, theBox, the YvesStLaurent "Customer Appreciation" Party, The 25th UNICEF Anniversary Lighting of the Fifth Ave Snowflake at LouisVuitton, and the tim-burton exhibit at theMOMA.

sorsa is in new york en route to park city, salt lake, and aspen to begin his official snowboard season tour.

* with many thanks to kummi-kim for the introduction

• Saturday, November 7, 2009. 8:00 PM – Famke Janssen dining with female friend (having the miso cod) at Omen.

• Thursday, November 5, 2009. 8:30PM – Tony Shafrazi joining Peter Brant and several other guests for dinner at Indochine.

• Tuesday, November 3, 2009. 3:00PM – Ann Dexter Jones with a female friend walking up 6th Ave near Bleecker St.

• Monday, November 2, 2009. 2:30PM – Michael White walking alone, headed east up W. 4th St. in the West Village. Looking for real estate… ?

• Wednesday, November 4, 2009. 7:30PM – Calvin Tsao, and then later, Hervé Descottes, chatting with Sasha Muniak at The Bon Bon.

• Tuesday, November 3, 2009 – Valentino Garavani, Giancarlo Giametti, Narciso Rodriguez, Marc Jacobs, Michael Chow, Martha Stewart, Larry Gagosian, Shala Monroque, Brian Grazer, Madonna, Adrien Brody, and Hugh Jackman at the Valentino: The Last Emperor DVD release party at The Bon Bon Room.

• Tuesday, November 3, 2009. 7:00PM – Martha Stewart dining with three guests at Le Bernardin. Also Gil Bellows (not together).

• Thursday, October 29, 2009 – Veronica Webb, Narciso Rodriguez, Cecilia Dean, Richard Johnson, Jean Marc Houmard, Huy Chi Le, Fran Leibowitz, Lynn Yaeger, Ric Pipino, Jorg Rae, and Athena and Victor Calderone at the Indochine Book Launch Party at Bergdorf Goodman.

• Thursday, October 29, 2009. 3PM – Mickey Rourke and Armin Amiri outside Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano.

• Thursday, October 29, 2009. 7PM – Adam Tihany chatting with Sasha Muniak at Le Caprice.

*photographs by Greg Maltby

• Friday, October 23, 8:57PM – "@ Blue Ribbon Sushi right now Chelsea Clinton sitting next table over!"

• Saturday, October 24, 10:00PM – Eric Goode and Emil Varda at The Bon Bon (née The Boom Boom) "just checking out the digs" and saying hello to Andre Balazs. When asked to confirm Artan Gjoni‘s (earlier) assertion that Juliet Supper Club is housed "in the former Area" space, Eric Goode replied, "What? Where? Twenty first street? No way."

• Monday, October 19, 2:30PM – Sante D’Orazio lunching outdoors at Bar Pitti. Also, Merv Matheson (not together).

• Tuesday, October 20, 2:00PM – Mark Baker and Artan Gjoni lunching outdoors at Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano.

• Tuesday, October 20, 10:00PM – Brian Grazer having his "first visit" and "lov[ing] it" to The Room Formerly Known as Boom Boom, sitting at the bar with two friends (/business associates?) in a dark gray business suit with no necktie. Moved to a quieter banquette table (with a view) as the bar area quickly filled up.

• Tuesday, October 20, 9:00PM – Harvey Keitel dining at Abe & Arthur’s with a woman at a corner table on the main level. Wearing a dark suit and lightly tinted eyewear with heavy black frames.

• Friday, October 16, 9:30PM – Salman Rushdie at Indochine, having drinks in the lounge with four women, and later adjoining to the dining room for dinner at a circular banquette. He sat firmly planted directly in the center of the ladies (and attention) both times.

• Thursday, October 15, 11:00PM – Mischa Barton in for her "usual" visit to La Esquina. It’s possible she "has a little crush on a bartender" there?

• Jay Z, Rihanna, and entourage at La Esquina. Jay Z maybe wasn’t entirely pleased with his table. Rihanna wore her jacket and sunglasses all through dinner. At one point, the bodyguard attempted to restrict access to the "mosaic room" and turned away proprietor Serge Becker. LOL. Fun times.

• Mischa Barton with two girlfriends strolling into La Esquina at 1AM. They had a quick drink and bounced.

• Michelle Wiliams walking alone on Spring Street in SoHo. All bundled up and hooded against the sudden drop in temperature in an olive military-style fatigue jacket. What amazing skin she has; it practically glows.

• Tony Shafrazi dining with a male friend at Lure.

• Jonathan Morr wandering aimlessly down Greenwich Avenue in the West Village with friend/business associate Ray Pirkle. Looking for real estate?

• Anne Burrell at the bar at Peasant. She ordered some convoluted complicated multi-ingredient cocktail but when informed, "Sorry, we don’t have the liquor to make that drink," she promptly responded, "That’s okay, I’ll have a vodka and soda."

• Emil Varda lunching outdoors with Abbe Diaz at Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano. Look out, world…?

eeeeek!

but then SOMEHOW completely forgets— he runs like, one of the hottest restaurants in like, the woooorld.

okay seriously though. how precious is this. he attends a private concert (150 guests), stands face to face in real flesh and blood life inches away from his number one all time favorite "omg i can’t breathe" IDOL (who just happens to apparently have an affinity for cute young handsomely cherubic attractive boys just like him), and he totally and utterly fails to comprehend how ridiculously easy it would be for him to simply hand her his business card and invite her to dinner at the super duper hotspot where he works. she’s probably already been there, even.

aww i just love him to death he’s so scrumptious and adorable isn’t he?

• Adrien Brody lunching at La Esquina (with a male hipster friend)— looking pale, scrawny, and headshaved enough to possibly be filming The Pianist II. Rode off into the sunset (down Lafayette St.) on his bicycle afterward.

• Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds dining at Mr. Chow Tribeca with his son, wearing an olive military-style fatigue jacket, matching cap and dark sunglasses. Ate pretty quickly and left. Little Babyface Jr fist bumped Michael "Mr" Chow on the way out. Mr Chow tried to make it fancy and fly, but little homeslice wasn’t havin’ it – he likes it plain and classic.

• Real Housewives’ Kelly Killoren Bensimmon chatting with a shorter woman outside Cafe Select in the mid-afternoon. Wearing sparkly black leggings, and a short, black, suede fringed jacket and ballet flats. Supposedly "filming" for an upcoming episode.

• Über-photographer Sante D’Orazio lunching at Bar Pitti with an übertall, leggy, beautiful model-type. What else is new.