The fifth season of Top Chef has wrapped up its not-so-secret production in New York City and is set to premiere with a "super-sized" episode on November 12th, Bravo announced today. Padma Lakshmi will once again join head judge Tom Colicchio (who made news yesterday with his forthcoming Tuesday night supper "club"). Gail Simmons from Food & Wine Magazine is also a judge, but perhaps the biggest surprise here is the addition of Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which was recently given the Hollywood treatment. more ›

Toby Young's tome on Graydon Carter and life at Vanity Fair, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, is hitting the big screen just like its female counterpart The Devil Wears Prada. more ›

EVENT: Even if the Freegans have a photo of a pale vegan going through the dumpster for food on the front page of their website, this is actually a really amazing group of people that we could all learn a lot from. Tonight, for example, they will teach you how to build bikes using abandoned parts found around the city. Tools and know-how supplied. more ›

we knew, we just knew, that if we stuck with it long enough eventually Denton would notice and maybe give us some blog-company to play with on the weekend (no offense to you, our fair readers, but it can get very lonely here on the weekend web). But we had no. Fucking. Idea. more ›

With obvious glee today's Times and Daily News went to task covering the Page Six payola scandal in greater detail. more ›