Ohmygod, you guys! Did you, like, go to the hippest Halloween bash last night? It was quite hip and topically relevant. Like my Hurricane Andrew costume, which earned a few sharp jeers from angry motorists as I marched into Williamsburg for said hippest Halloween bash ever. That is, the much-hyped Vice Magazine Halloween party. If you went, maybe you wished that you instead stayed home to work on your decorative gourds, by which logic, you non-attenders were probably stewing with jealousy. That's alright! Bottomless wells of malt liquor and tequila inspires that kind of seething envy. Although despite the throngs of people snaking around the side of the building and probably into Greenpoint or something, the party inside was filled to maybe half of its total capacity. At best, the occupancy resembled Anderson Cooper's boyfriend's East Village bar on an early Tuesday evening. But it's the recession! And maybe that's the only logic warped enough to justify waiting two-plus hours in line. A recap of the blurry night in numbers, after the jump.

Back in March, we noted the slow renovation of a restaurant on Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue into a new venture partially backed by a mystery celebrity. Via Eater we learn that Down by the Hipster has revealed the mystery backer as none other than Heath Ledger. Though Ledger's death slowed things down for obvious reasons, "his father became executor of the estate and because he knew how much the project meant to heath, he released the funds to finish construction." Interestingly, a commenter on our own post -- "shiso" -- gave Ledger's name back in April. Spies everywhere! Tentative name for the new place is "the Five Leaves."

We’ve always been of the mind that by living in Brooklyn, we’re keeping it real. Real cheap. So when seven people move into a downtown Brooklyn, $6 million penthouse loft, it somehow defeats the purpose. But don’t expect MTV to miss out on its “Brooklyn is the new Manhattan” chance at on-the-pulse cred, which is why this fall they’re moving seven strangers into the Belltel Lofts for the latest incarnation of reality-TV granddaddy, "The Real World: Brooklyn."