Tonight's MAD Paper Ball is another thing you can do at night to have fun besides the same old-same old club crawl. My job description is nightlife correspondent for BlackBook, so this week I've been offering up some alternatives for those of us who just need a change of scenery. This event is star-studded, and for the price of a cheap bottle of vodka at a B-list table, you can hang out with celebs, see some new and more importantly fresh faces, and help a worthy cause. I caught up with Thomas Onorato, partner in OW! (Onorato Wixom) and asked him a couple of questions about the shindig. Again, this event is tonight -- so call the significant other now or procure yourself an insignificant other and get on it.

What’s tonight all about? My business partner, Max Wixom ,and I are proud to be on the steering committee for the Museum of Arts and Design’s MAD Paper Ball, which is a young patron’s gala to help raise money for the museum’s education programs -- the only hands-on arts education that many New York City public school students ever get. It’s not your grandma’s gala, that’s for sure. Aside from fundraising, the other goal of the Paper Ball is to bring the new generation of artists and patrons into MAD, who in some cases do not even know this amazing institution is accessible to them. Have you seen the permanent jewelry collection? So bananas!

Tonight, MAD is celebrating one year at their new location, with an event hosted by Rose McGowan, Coco Rocha, and Mad Men's Bryan Batt. It’s in their new home at 2 Columbus Circle, a building that itself is a work of art. There’s a great group of committee members, including people like Fabiola Beracasa, Genevieve Jones, Dror Benshetrit, Adam Dugas, Threeasfour, Zaldy, the Misshapes, Slava Mogutin, Brian Kenny and others ... very cool kids coming uptown. Also, many artists and fashion designers provided unique paper or paper-themed works to raise money for MAD's programs -- from Matthew Williamson to Craig McDean to Rubin Chapelle to Kai Kahune.

What’s the scene going to be like? We’ve have Paul Sevigny, Harley & Cassie, and Leo Fitzpatrick DJing, and the pieces are installed in the museum by Playground, an art collective founded by steering committee co-chair Julie Ragolia and Zach Gold. The VIP preview begins at 7:30pm; the party hits at 830pm and goes till late.

Event-goers get to be the first to see the new exhibition "Slash: Paper Under the Knife," which is made up of an amazing group of site specific installations and works in paper. The dance floor is on the second floor, right next to Madeline Albright’s pin collection exhibition. She’s one of my heroes with all these really cool brooches ... My favorite is the Cartier leopard, so crazy town. They make you feel like you should have on shoulder pads and be running the UN.

The reason we got involved is that we love the Museum of Arts and Design, and the event isn’t geared to the old guard, but the young artists and the downtown crowd. I mean, the tickets are only $150, which is unheard of in New York charity events. Mostly tax-deductible too ... just saying. I predict boozy kooky fun, especially when Paul Sevigny goes on at 10:30pm, and maybe vogueing! It’s going to be major and all for a good cause!

In other news, I hear that the Mott was approved by their community board licensing committee last night. The bad boys who pushed femme fatale Emma Cleary out will most likely be approved for their license by the full board at the next full meeting. The approval comes with the caveat, I am told, that the downstairs lounge must function as part of the dining experience and not be what was planned -- i.e. just a lounge. I think this will be a bait and switch by this group who will just grab the license and operate it as a lounge despite the stipulation. In all contact with these players, I have found them to be untruthful. I love Emma Cleary and don't like these guys who have used their wealth and political influence to push her out. I will meet them halfway, as this economy needs jobs and they will provide them.

The world has a tendency to expose people for what they are, and although I have seen multitudes of successful assholes in this business, for the most part those assholes had talent. I see little talent over at the Mott and will wait to see who scoops the joint up after they fail. The cost of the build-out and the subsequent delay in achieving proper papers will be a heavy-ass monkey to carry on their backs. I think the place will have a negative vibe; the neighborhood will feel it, and with all that debt they won't last long. There are rumors of club people waiting in the wings.

Sean Kolodny of Pink Elephant fame was a source of mine in previous stories regarding this debacle. It was he who defended the owners when I was writing about their fight with Emma. Although he has continuously denied involvement with the project, it was he who handled the limited back-and-forth between the current group and myself when I was writing months ago. Sean was begging me not to write, and he was passing information to me from that group which proved to be false. He leveled threats at Emma via me on their behalf and stated that there were other ways she could be hurt besides a lawsuit.

I don't buy the bull, I don't like being lied to and hearing threats about this gig from him. He was spotted casually observing the board meeting last night. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he was just curious or waiting for a bus, and maybe the lies he told me about this project were misunderstandings, and maybe the Mets are going to win the World Series this year. Maybe the Mott will be a nice, quiet restaurant ... a pillar of the community. It could happen! I think he plans to be there and bring his version of nightlife to the place. Maybe they will not have a lounge downstairs ... maybe. I gotta leave this now as this other nice fella wants to sell me a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I always wanted one.

Well, I said I'd meet them halfway. So I guess a "good luck assholes" is in order. Was I too subtle, or do you people understand my position?