Scott Osman, or “Scotto” as everyone knows him, is one of those eternally young club types. He’s been around for as long as I can remember. I think I fired him more than any other employee I ever had, which, of course, means that I also hired him more than anyone else. I interviewed Scotto because he has traveled beyond the club scene, and his work has taken him as far as getting within couple of feet of Barack Obama during the inauguration -- with security clearance to boot. This begs the question: What’s wrong with the Secret Service, or what’s right with clubs?

Spencer Sweeney, artist and one of the forces behind Santos' Party House, talks community boards, sketchy after-hour clubs, and why he's changing his name to Santa.

Point of Origin: I came to New York about ten years ago from Philadelphia where I was an art student. I started DJing when I moved here at a sketchy after-hours spot on Ridge Street. Looking back, it was a pretty significant place culturally. My first party there was with Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello. The club was basically some guy's apartment, and he got arrested every weekend. I think he had an incarceration fetish. There was this party at Standard Notions on Ludlow, which was a big hangout. Every week you'd have the guys from A.R.E. Weapons, Chloe Sevigny, Ben Cho. That's where we all came together. At the time, DJing was very genre-driven. If you went into a record store, everyone would ask what you spun, and you'd have to be like "Organic Deep House," you know?

Most of the time, after a drawn-out night in New York, we come to work on time, pulled together—a little tired, but kempt. Today is not one of those days. The city was busy last night. Kanye played 1Oak, the MoMA hosted an event for the release of HBO's Recount—stay tuned for our candid interview with actress Laura Dern—while GQ and Stoli Vodka threw down in the West Village. We didn't make any of these.

Well maybe not summer, and maybe not 2010, but soon. Zooey Deschanel and Chloë Sevigny have signed on to costar in Divorce Ranch, reports Variety. Set in a post-WWII Nevada, where quickie divorces are granted after residency is established, Sevigny plays an actress who travels to the ranch to meet and marry a wealthy man. Deschanel plays her assistant, in what is (redundantly) being called an “indie” comedy. Now that Scarlett and Natalie’s team-up fell flat, it’s up to Zooey and Chloë (or is it Chloë and Zooey?) to prove that the screen has room for more than one "It Girl." (Ed Note: Hollywood Trend Alert! With Jet Li and Jackie Chan starring in Forbidden Kingdom, and Robert De Niro and Al Pacino joining forces in Righteous Kill, pairing up counterparts seems to be the new "three-quel.")

Our nightlife columnist Holly GoNightly closes the bar at the Opening Ceremony party.

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Scene queen Sophia Lamar at last night's Opening Ceremony celebration.

People everywhere—and by people, I mean bloggers—keep announcing that this is going to be one of the best Fashion Week weeks ever, and it has nothing to do with the clothes. The writers strike may have struck the Golden Globes, but it promises to leave New Yorkers star-struck. The glitterati have so few lines to memorize these days that they’ve come to flood the tents and fêtes with their shiny Hollywood presence.

In HBO’s 'Big Love,' she’s the conniving but dorky middle-sister-wife with the bad hair and nerdy, buttoned-up style. But in real life, the Oscar-nominated actress is so uncannily cool and effortlessly put together. Tired of going topless on cable TV, but thoroughly game to show her ‘behind,’ as she calls it, the onetime ‘It-girl’ and indie darling just debuted her revealing line of ready-to-wear, Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony. Now, if writer Bruno Maddox can only get her to show a bit more of herself. You know, in that other way. As you’ll find, in Chloë Sevigny’s personal world, nothing is quite what it seems.

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“Oh, and I particularly like that angry walk of hers that you do,” I say to Chloë Sevigny.

“Walk?” she says, italicizing.

“You know,” I say, struggling. “That special tilting attack-walk you have when she’s angry. Your face goes dark, and you sort of lower one shoulder, and you charge across the lawn at an angle.”

Fans of “Big Love”—HBO’s glibly titled but increasingly watchable series about a family of less-than-saintly, modern-day polygamists trying to make a go of it in deceptively menacing suburban Utah—know precisely the walk I’m talking about. Chloë Sevigny, however, the walk’s creator, claims not to. And so on a stretch of carpet outside a theater in Manhattan, where we are scheduled to watch a play, I find myself trying to demonstrate it for her.

The 'Big Love' star instructs on Hollyweird, potato bugs, ‘obnoxious lesbian’ neighbors, and those pesky sex scenes with 'Bill.'

BLACKBOOK: Did you have style while you were growing up?

CHLOË SEVIGNY: Absolutely! Pretty much from kindergarten on I wouldn’t let my mother dress me. I had very specific tastes, and refused to put on anything she wanted me to wear. I was really into clothes, often kind of outrageous, not quite typical kid-wear, like hats and things. My father used to take me into the city, to Macy’s, or Saks, to go shopping—I was Daddy’s girl, so those were really important days. He’d been a military man, so all of his outfits were very crisp. And beyond that he had some serious style. Fedoras, trenchcoats—very classic. He even wore those straps [garters] that hold your socks up. There was just something about that generation. He used to tell me how much he liked women in hats, so I would wear hats more and more often, because I knew he liked me in them.

The top 20 things she loathes in life.

1. Litterbugs
2. Water wasters
3. New York taxes
4. Air travel
5. Driving to work when it’s still dark
6. McMansion developers
7. The Hollywood system
8. Heroin
9. People who hold open the doors on subways
10. Pollution