My friend Rachelle Hruska runs one of the most successful nightlife blogs in the country, Guest of a Guest.
This past week she’s been filing video reports for Cosmopolitan Magazine. I ran into her during Fashion Night Out and she did a quick interview of me outside of Saks 5th Ave.
You can see the short clip of her interview with me around 1 minute into the video: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/party-videos/fashion-week-party-video-091009-2
Yes, my wrist is ok Mom! 
Good spot. Just icing a bruise from practice!
By Rachell Hruska, Guest of a Guest
Hamadeh hosted an End of Summer Party at his loft in Gramercy for friends including our favorite Olympic fencers, Tim Morehouse and Jason Rogers as well as Mick Rock, Bobby Kennedy III, Kick Kennedy, Chris McGovern, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Bob Gilbane, Michael Morris, Lisa Raden, and Greg Calejo. Of note was the loft itself. More story and photos below…(REST OF STORY)
The blog is now “syndicated” or carried on usfencing.org, the US Olympic website, Manhattan Fencing Center and recently, the famous photographer Patrick McMullan, has agreed to run some of our entries on his site! (More on this exciting news later!)
You can read our latest article on our NYC nightlife adventures at our weekly column on Guest of a Guest:
http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-nightlife/tim-and-jason-at-the-opening-of-restaurant-casa-la-femme/
In exciting news, the article just got picked up by New York Magazine in it’s review of Restaurant opening Sections:
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/01/party_like_an_egyptian.html
With our friends Jordan Lawlor and Anne Latarte at the opening of Restuarant Casa La Femme
America's Next Top Model Jaslene with us at Greenhouse
New Year’s Eve was our latest endeavor into the New York City events scene with a party of our own design, the aptly named, “Open ’09 with Olympians” at Elmo’s Lounge.
With very little experience about what it takes to throw a cool party and sell tickets (why does everyone wait until the last minute to finalize NYE plans?!?!), we were in a bit over our heads, but in the end we learned a lot of valuable party planning lessons and it all came together with a packed house, a hip crowd and most importantly— we raised about $4000 dollars for the Right To Play charity!
The hilarious Mo Rocca, a long time contributor to Daily Show, was in attendance and while he chatted with partiers, Richie Rich’s dancing and revelry helped set a fun tone. In attendance were a number of Olympians including Judo champion and two-time Olympian Taraje Williams-Murray, Canadian swimmer Nikki Dryden and Olympic Silver and Bronze Medal winning diver Anne Montminy along with a packed house of friends that helped us bring in 2009 with a bang!
One good idea when throwing a party is to recruit folks with a lot of friends to help you host. We learned this lesson late in the game,(luckily we learned it!) but thanks to Alison Goldman, Eva Snopek, Ember Dahlvig and Jackie Gonzalez for bringing a crew of friends!
Another good idea is to make sure that the person you hire to work your door doesn’t get drunk and pass out on the job! Yes, our door man was passed out by 11pm and then proceeded to vomit. Let’s just say our door might not have been as well guarded as it needed to be!
And lastly, in the category of things I never thought I would be doing, at one point we had 50 women RSVPed and only 5 men, and we had to spend quality time trying to find men to come to our party! (Haha, I remember back in high school when I might have struggled to get 2 girls to come a party…times have certainly changed!)
MORE PICTURES! (You can go to guestofaguest.com to check out more pictures)
Vanity Fair online’s Society and Style section had an article about all the events in NYC last night and how Michael Phelps, Oprah and Britney were all within blocks of each other.
In their write up of the Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the year” party they mentioned four people that were in attendance– Michael Phelps, Eli Manning…(and then amazingly they mentioned)…Jason Rogers and me!
From Vanity Fair:
“Tim Morehouse and Jason Rogers, the Olympic silver medalists in fencing who have been very conspicuously making the party rounds in Manhattan lately. “
Totally funny. Are we making progress to promote our sport? (Hope so!) Kudos to Vanity Fair writer Jessica Flint for the mention…we’ll have to get her fencing sometime soon!
Richie Rich, Liam McMullan, Tim Morehouse and Jason Rogers
The Club Mansion located in Chelsea in New York City was the host of the Diesel sponsored NYC Paper Mag’s Fourth Annual Nightlife Awards. If you have ever stayed up late wondering if such awards existed…well, they do! It was a who’s who of NYC nightlife coming together to celebrate and honor the best clubs, DJs, promoters, nightlife blogs and more!! Our friends at guest of a guest (www.guestofaguest.com) Rachelle Hruska and others invited us along, as they were nominees for the best online blog award. Richie Rich along with Ally Hilfilger, Michael Musto and others presented awards to the hottest folks on the NYC scene for 2008.
Best of NYC NightLife Awards at Club Mansion
Some of the highlights: The best club award went to “Santa’s Party House.” Best Bar/Lounge went to “Angels and Kings.” Samantha Ronson won an award for her Deejaying skills while DJ Skeet Skeet took home the overall award for best DJ award. A Personal high for me was getting to meet the legendary photographer Patrick McMullan (truly a huge honor), as well as spending some time with his son Liam who was celebrating the launch of his role as Page 6 Writer for the NY Post (Best of luck Liam!). I headed home at about 10:30pm since I’ve got an early day of training and a big week ahead!
