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...Thursday night, and at Buddakan, a restaurant in Manhattan's ultra-trendy Meatpacking District, friends Lisa Natt-Irom and Jeanne DiGangi and their husbands are sitting down to an intimate dinner with 18 complete strangers. "Hi, I'm Jeanne," says DiGangi, 42, as she slides into her seat at the 30-ft.-long table that is the centerpiece of the room. "Have you eaten here before? What's your favorite thing? You have to try the butternut-squash dumplings!" she says before taking a breath and introducing the rest of her party...
...breathless owners, "I would list your house for ..." It may not be realistic (how certain can an appraiser be that a half-bath is worth exactly $20,000?). But it's brilliant TV, allowing us to indulge a little jealousy (say, of the lucky bastard who bought a Manhattan apartment for $90,000 in 1990) and vicarious money lust. And it demonstrates how the housing boom changed the way people look at their homes: as an expression of their financial savvy rather than their creative selves...
...board was appointed by President Bush to help implement the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, an offshoot of former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's efforts to bring transparency to the debilitating effects of radioactive materials on worker health - going back to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in Richardson's home state of New Mexico. "We're reversing the decades-old practice of opposing worker claims and moving forward to do the right thing," Richardson said when he announced the plan...
...David Hyde Pierce, best known for playing snooty Niles Crane on Frasier, has come out, via his publicist. Laments Manhattan blog GAWKER: "It's hard to believe that the man who played one of sitcomdom's most effete heterosexuals may, in fact, dig dudes." SCORE...
...keeping it real. Now nice restaurants are coming around to my way of thinking. Alice Waters, citing environmental reasons, banned bottled water at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif. Several other high-end Bay Area spots have also gone tap-only, and soon Del Posto, Mario Batali's expensive Manhattan joint, will join them. I'm betting that fine-dining establishments will eventually follow my environmental lead on napkins too and let diners wipe their mouths with their sleeves...