Gawker operative Stephen Kosloff went off to the National Book Critics Circle awards last night armed with a banana and a thirst for too much wine. This is what he saw.

It's Fashion Week in gay Paris! Making it, you know, even more gay. The event always showcases the wildest of modern garments, so we've put together a gallery of some of our favorites. Bon Appetit!

On Thursday night, the newly-minted Top 13 of American Idol had a red carpet party. A celebration before most of them fade back into sad, eternal obscurity.

Just in time for New York to revert back to the mean streets of old, the blockbustery film Watchmen comes out offering us a reimagined 1985 cityscape. How does it compare to the real thing?

There was a big snow storm in the Northeast today! But more importantly, there was a big snowstorm in New York today! Take a look at a gallery of the wonderland after the jump.

Continuous Lean points out a series of Time Life photos detailing the collection of hand signals that Sherman Billingsley, the owner of Old Manhattan institution The Stork Club, used to communicate silently with his staff.

While you sat on the couch bleary-eyed and stunned that you lost your Oscar pool, the rich and famous schmoozed and drank til dawn. To share the experience, we have a gallery for you.

Evening! The celebrities are stumbling down the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards right now. Keep checking here for updates on all the fashionz. Also, someone please smack Ben Lyons.

Lots of people at Fashion Week are pretty and/or glamorous and, sigh, we'll never be like them. But at least we can look at them. In a gallery, after the jump.

Fashion Week isn't just low-tier celebrities and odd-ball fashion designers. It's also backstage people and ugly old people and stuff. Let's take a moment to honor them, in a photo gallery after the jump.

Here are some images from today's New York Fashion Week events. We have eye makeup and Anna Wintour and the always-demure Paris Hilton. Enjoy the small gallery after the jump.

Paris Hilton set the celebrity tone for Fashion Week events Monday: C-Listy (still!) and trying to blend in. Except for non-Cl-isty Justin Timberlake, who walked the runway.

The attendees, or at least the one's willing to be photographed, at Fashion Week right now are relatively non-A-List. Just look at the people snapped over the weekend. Doesn't anyone famous care about fashion anymore?

Having tried to block it for years, a broke Michael Jackson has finally agreed to auction off a large collection of his belongings. Auctioneers for Julien's Auctions were let into Neverland Ranch to ransack it.

Fashion Week is going strong at Bryant Park. Do you wish you were there? No, me neither. But here are some pictures, in case you're curious. Lots of skinny blonde girls, plus Michelle Obama's designer!

Those fratty nerds at CollegeHumor celebrated the launch of their new MTV television show last night, in the lobby of their big boss Barry Diller's IAC building in Chelsea. Here are some photos.

"I may not have always been a New Yorker," Hillary Clinton, who lives in Washington, said in her farewell-to-the-Senate address, "but I know I always will be one." She wrote a book about it!

The White House has released an awesome book called "Highlights of Accomplishment and Results" from "The Administration of President George W. Bush." Let's page through it!

Yesterday, diminutive Robert Reich, one of Obama's economic superfriends and Clinton's Secretary of Labor, frighteningly used the D-word on his personal blog. The 533,000 jobs lost in November, he wrote, "begs the question of whether the meltdown we're experiencing should be called a Depression. We are falling off a cliff." Then this morning our new President of Hope announced a massive a public works program that's going to start with energy efficient lightbulbs. But why stop there? If the federal government is going to start printing money like it's a Depression, let's bring back the old New Deal arts project for artists, musicians, actors, and writers that ran from 1936 through 1943. The Library of Congress hosts a nice collection of posters the old WPA produced. Some of our favorites are after the jump.

Poor General Motors Corp may not be around forever if certain auto dealers on a bus ride cannot persuade the federal government to give the failing company $25 billion. Sad! Remember when GM cars ruled the roads, America ruled the world, and men were men? Those were the days. We've collected a gallery of ten classic GM ads from the good old days of the 1930s, to remind you of what once was, and what shall never be again. Weep for your autos: