Eva Mendes: All About The Place Beyond The Pines

By: Anne M. Raso

Eva Mendes was looking gorgeous in a polka dotted dress and platform pumps at the press day for The Place Beyond The Pines, co-starring real life love interest Ryan Gosling (headed to theaters nationwide this Friday). Mendes says that like many other actors, she finds on-screen bedroom scenes to be awkward and that she likes to “keep it classy” in this area of thespianism. She wouldn't comment if it was harder or easier to do love scenes with her real life BF or not!

Spoons (and Forks) Up at the 2013 Spoonful of Ginger Gala Boston

By: Jessica Cickay

They say that “practice makes perfect,” and it’s pretty obvious that in its 9th year, the Spoonful of Ginger gala to benefit the Joslin Asian American Diabetes Initiative has something good cooking…literally. Hundreds of hungry guests mingled in the Museum of Fine Arts’ Art of the Americas Wing to raise funding and increase awareness of the growing incidence of diabetes among Asian Americans, but in the tastiest of ways.

Ming at Work

Desmond’s Steakhouse And Grill: A Classic Midtown Steakhouse With A Modern Flavor

By: Anne M. Raso

I’m always happy to check out new steakhouses and Desmond’s in midtown was one I was especially eager to check out as fellow food writers told me they had a great time there, not only raving abut the steaks but also saying that they loved the fabulous trays of mixed raw and cooked seafood that have become diner’s favorite appetizers (although it is a meal in itself). I am a bonafide landlubber, so I stuck with the steak and traditional sides and sampled the eatery’s two most popular desserts.

Interior

Tina Fey's Candid Admissions On Admission

By: Anne M. Raso

Tina Fey is in peak form in Admission, a social satire on the Ivy League admissions process that undoubtedly hits close to home for a lot of parents helping their smart kids fill out those complex forms right around this time of year! Fey plays Princeton Admissions Officer Portia Nathan, a conservative woman raised by a Susannah, a radical feminist mother (played by Lily Tomlin, sporting a large Bella Abzug tattoo). Paul Rudd plays the handsome and charming John Pressman, head of an alternative high school who has a wild card Princeton candidate for Portia--a kid named Jeremiah Balakian (played by Nat Wolff) with high SAT scores and crappy everything else who just may or may not be the son she gave up for adoption while in college. It's a clever plot and all we can say without giving away spoilers is that Portia's determined to get Jeremiah into Princeton come hell or high water.

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd at The Waldorf Towers, NYC