Parenting advice sensation Amy Chua, best known to America as the playdate and crappy homemade card-hating, piano/violin practice-loving, Chinese values-endorsing "Tiger Mother", was named to Time's 2011 list of 100 influential people. Which means she was at last night's gala dinner—the bestselling memoirist/Yale law professor Tweeted, "Had a great time at the Time 100 dinner last night. Got to hang out (and talk about parenting :) ) with Mark Wahlberg and Bruno Mars, who performed...will post pictures soon.." Chua also brought her husband, fellow bestselling novelist (and Yale law professor) Jed Rubenfeld and their daughters Sophia and Lulu.
Tiger Mom Brings Tiger Cubs To Party (On A School Night!!)
The Time 100 List Reminds Us Who To Care About
It's finally here: the 2011 Tiger Beat Time 100 list of most influential movers and shakers around the world will be published on Friday. But knowing that there was no way anyone will wait to read it in the actual magazine, they were kind enough to put the list online for us to gawk at today. And it includes several notable NYers, including Patti Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan, Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada. There are also two prominent NJ politicians—Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Gov. Chris Christie—but no NY ones. Should we be demanding a recount?
Time 100 Gala: From Michelle Obama To M.I.A.
Last night, Time magazine held its annual Time 100 Gala at the Time Warner Center. Emceed by Jimmy Fallon, the night celebrated those featured in the issue, a range of people from the First Lady to the Twitter guys, from Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. to financial advice guru Suze Orman. The attendee list was long and glittering, including a wide variety of people, like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (a Time 100 honoree), SNL producer Lorne Michaels, former JFK speechwriter Ted Sorenson, and the joined-at-the-hip celeb-trio of Liv Tyler, Stella McCartney and Kate Hudson.

