"Hey! There's Tom Wolfe," said the photographer Mark Seliger at the Ralph Lauren store in Soho last night where he was celebrating his latest book of photographs, The Music Book.(Mr. Seliger's built a noteworthy career as the staff photographer for Rolling Stone from 1992 to 2002, a tenure during which most of the photographs in the book ...

Downsize this, baby! A new group calling themselves the American Society of Shit-Canned Media Elites (ASSME)—i.e., all those who weren’t savvy enough pre-recession to flash some epidermis for the New York Times Magazine editors and land an assignment and subsequent book deal—throws a party at Ella Lounge on Avenue A. “Wow. Um. Yes!” wrote ASSME chief ...

Feeling like a turkey because you’re going broke and somehow you just don’t care anymore and your shrink keeps telling you some crap about whenever one door closes another one opens? Two choices today, possums: Endure enervating hours of travel in close proximity to pie-bearing New Yorkers or stop by Vanity Fair photographer Mark Seliger’s 401 Projects ...