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Welcome to Night & Day
"So what," you may
well ask, "is this lunatic site about anyway?" All kinds of crap:
books, magazines, parties, drinks, food,
restaurants, the media, music, clothes and country life, for starters.
It's not
going to be about new TV shows and movies (don't watch 'em), business,
politics, sports or video games. That's for squids. And it won't be
just an Internet version of my late, lamented Nightcrawler column,
although there will be elements of that.
I'm
calling it "Night & Day" (the logo is from a racy '40s - '50s
men's mag) because it will encompass both hectic nights in New York and
reflective days
in the country. Plus there's the Fred Astaire connotation
(Astaire's 1934 RKO picture "The Gay Divorcée"
featured Cole Porter's famous song
"Night & Day." That's a pre-"gay" gay).
As Patrick Dennis writes in "Auntie Mame",
"[Astaire] was everything we wanted to be: smooth, suave, debonair,
dapper, intelligent, adult, witty, and wise.... When any crises came
into our young lives, we asked ourselves what Fred Astaire would do and
we did likewise" (Fred also always got the hot chicks). Not bad as
guiding principles go.
So speaking of guides, just sit back, and let me be Virgil to
your Dante, escorting you from the inferno to paradise, passing through
all the concentric circles along the way. And yes, it's open bar.
About JPS
JPS is
the literary
editor of BlackBook magazine. He is
the former Books editor of the New York
Post; was a reporter for the infamous"Page Six"
column for over a decade; and penned the paper's much-emulated
"Nightcrawler"
column. He is currently writing a book about his years at Page Six and
has a clothing line, Skull
&
Bones.In years past he has written for the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, WWD, Details, Radar, the New York Times, the Times' T Magazine, New York magazine, and the New York Press (columnist); and (in the defunct category), Spy, Detour, and Talk. He was (briefly) executive editor of Star magazine and editor-in-chief of the short-lived Milton ("We Smoke, We Drink, We Gamble"). Along the way he's been profiled in the New York Times Magazine ("Who the Hell is Taylor Dane?", Oct. 19, 1997) and Details among others; and starred in a now-famous fashion shoot by Larry Fink for Detour magazine in 1999. A photo from that shoot at Elaine's (below), with model/actress Cameron Richardson and the late George Plimpton,
appeared
in Fink's
2000 book "Runway"
(among others) and opened Vanity
Fair's new "Vanities" section that year. It was later used in
advertisements for the QE2 and, oddly, in France to sell chewing gum. JPS was born in Philadelphia, PA and graduated from Bennington College in 1994. He currently divides his time between New York City and an 1870's Carpenter Gothic house in the Great Northern Catskills which he shares with his gal Snoodles; Hanna, a Border Collie; Cruella the temperamental tabby cat; and ferrets named Minxy and Raffles.
He hopes one day to work for Modern Drunkard.
Articles by & about Jared Paul Stern:
Gawker 9/08/2004 JPS reviews "Lads" for the Wall St. Journal
WWD 4/30/2004 JPS writes for New York magazine's "Intelligencer"
NY Daily News 8/29/2003 (third item) JPS hired as Executive Editor of Star magazine
National Review 2/10/2003 (fifteenth item) National Review Managing Editor Jay Nordlinger comments on JPS's Nightcrawler column about the Lane Bryant fashion show
New York Magazine 10/7/2002 (second item) JPS impersonates waiter and tempts underage First Daughter Barbara Bush with wine at Mr. Chow
Wall Street Journal 7/02/2002 JPS reviews Toby Young's "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" for the Wall. St. Journal
NY Observer 2/18/2002 Simon Doonan reports on the Perry Ellis fashion show, in which he, JPS and other 'real' New Yorkers appear
Wall Street Journal 01/03/2002 JPS reports on New Yorkers fleeing Manhattan for upstate, in the wake of 9/11
NY Observer 9/11/2000 (second item) JPS brings in director Whit Stillman to fill in at Page Six
NY Times, 3/14/1999 JPS writes about model-turned-actress Carolyn Murphy