Using his iPhone, 30-year-old musician Adam Green (formerly one half of the Moldy Peaches) made The Wrong Ferrari, a ketamine-fueled, 80-minute movie starring his famous friends - Macaulay Culkin, Alia Shawkat, and Devendra Banhart among them. “I thought this would be like Dante’s Inferno—if I subjected myself to enough embarrassment on camera it would cleanse my soul,” he says of the project.

In his deliciously twisted new thriller, The Perfect Host, actor David Hyde Pierce plays a crazy—okay, crazier—version of his beloved Frasier character, Dr. Niles Crane. Hyde Pierce, a four-time Emmy winner (he’s been nominated 11 times in as many years), is Warwick Wilson, an intelligent, affluent man who’s preparing to host a dinner party when a stranger named John (Clayne Crawford) arrives at his front door.

In the summer of 2009, a er losing the first fight of her career, Gina Carano, a professional mixed martial artist, considered throwing in the towel. But at her agent’s insistence, the 29-year-old Texan agreed to meet with a director named Steven Soderbergh. “I had a black eye, and I didn’t want to see anyone,” she says. “Especially not a director who, I’m embarrassed to say, I hadn’t heard of before. He wanted to make a movie based on a female action person—‘star’ feels too weird to say—who would make these Hollywood stage fights look believable.”

On Wednesday, anybody who is anybody will be dressing up and having fun at Dream Downtown. The Meatpacking District continues to evolve, and with three colossal hotels—Dream plus Standard plus Gansevoort—it's flush with hospitality complexes. The lines defining day and night for the jet set/party set are obscuring rapidly. In fact, the lines between clubs, restaurants, and hotels are nearly completely blurred, and no amount of prescription bifocals will clear it up.

"Everything I love is, like, right around the corner from me."

People are really taking advantage of their hotel concierges these days. Take the W Hotel. Not only does their concierge team suggest the best places to eat, drink, and shop in the area, and order up room service at the drop of a hat, but they are also personal DJs who help you plan your itinerary with tips on local happenings—and they Tweet for their guests. That's because in addition to old-school human concierges, W Hotels now have robots—otherwise known as iPhone apps.

The morning started like any other. Actually no, no it did not. I woke up and freaked out, examined my pores in one of those magnifying mirrors, debated whether or not to wash my hair while standing in the shower for nearly an hour, and actually called Nick Haramis to see what he would be wearing to work today, the day that we would be getting our portraits taken by the renowned photographer Rankin. Just so we're clear, it's the same Rankin that has shot The Rolling Stones, Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair, and was commissioned by Nike and Bono for their R.E.D campaign in the fight against HIV/AIDS. That Rankin.

Promotional shots of the new Surf Baby collection from MAC feature Hanne Gabby Odiele trying pull off goopy burgundy lipstick and shimmery, rust-colored eyeshadow at the beach. We get it: MAC is edgy. Still, who wears such nonsense sur la plage? Dressed in retro-surf packaging, I pretty much expected that the collection would try to hawk patently un-beachy hues by calling them names like "Ocean Breeze Eyeshadow" or "Sand in Your Suit Lipgloss." And, they did. But the collection also features my new favorite product obsession.

Start at the Indian Ocean. Head east past villages, parched red soil, lush fig trees, herds of wildebeests, and stately hunting lodges. Finally, stop at Tanzania's gorgeous Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest freshwater lake in the world. Its waters, swimming with still-undiscovered species, is a shade of blue that might cheesily be called 'azure' or compared to the eyes of some alluring temptress. It's hard to believe a luxury resort could fit here without disturbing the wild rhythm of the place, but somehow, Lupita Island Resort and Spa seems folded into Tanzania’s lifebeat, blending in with its dense forest, straggling grasslands, and rocky outcrops.