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#Sundance Party Report — T-Mobile Google Music, Tao, Bing Bar & Hyde

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - January 26th, 2012 Filed under: Music, Sundance

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Inside / Entrance to Tao at Sundance

Tao red carpet at Sundance

T-Mobile charging station outside Tao

#GoogleMusic at Tao @ Sundance 2012

This is what Tao looks like before Jeff Best and Noah get to it :D

Tao red carpet at Sundance

red carpet / basement entrance to Tao at Sundance

Basement entrance to Tao at Sundance

Keep going? Time to stop?

Todd Dufour and Blake Wassenaar at Tao

Kaskade at Tao

Kaskade at Tao

Zen Freeman is his Kaskade shades at Tao

The Daily Truffle on the Tao Google Music board

Press filming at #GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

#GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

#GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

Tao at Sundance

Invites to Google Music

Bar at Tao

The Lift at night

Bing bar -- coat check

Bing bar on Main at Sundance

Coat check at Bing

Bar at Bing

Bing bar -- fireplace

Bing bar

Drake with his body guard who wouldn't let anyone take pictures

Drake at Bing

Drake at Bing

Drake at Bing

Bing at Sundance

Entrance to Hyde

Party: Google Music and Tao at T-Mobile Village at the Lift

Where: Town Lift on Main St.

When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Night — 7pm – 10pm, 11pm – 2am

Sightings: On Friday we saw Mary J Blige leaving while Aziz Ansari barely made it past the lines in the snow. Saturday we saw Danny Masterson late night on the red carpet, Paris Hilton at the first table in front of Kaskade with brother Baron Hilton and his girlfriend, Lil Jon at a table a little further back, James Marsden at a table across from Lil Jon’s, Aaron Paul, Malin Akerman, Drake, Kristen Dunst and Garrett Hedlund, Harvey Weinstein, Estelle, Blythe Danner, Angela Kinsey, Donald Faison, Chris Rock, Common, Cisco Adler, Jamie Chung, Olivia Thrilby, Mechad Brooks, Aaron Paul, Emma Roberts, Lizzy Caplan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Christina Hendriks and husband Geoffrey Arend, Julie Delpy, Teresa Palmer, Wilmer Valderama, Allison Janney (West Wing), Spike Lee, Danny Masterson, Robin Thicke, Ben Lyons, Mario Lopez, Rashida Jones, Quincy Jones (in town for Rashida’s new film — by coinicidence, we were greeted in our hotel room with a gift basket of Phylia prodcuts from Quincy’s other daughter. Her name is Kidadda and she has a new business venture with friend and partner Kazu Namise). Also spotted: Noah Tepperberg (Strategic Group / Tao owner), Jeff Best (event product for T-Mobile Village at the Lift), Dan Reagan, Chris Paul, Taylor Russell, Blake Wassenaar with Todd Dufour from Buzz Media, stylist Johnny Wujek, Carlos Manzanillo of PMK-BNC, Donovan Leitch, Ashlee Margolis, Red Foo of LMFAO, Afrojack, Chris Dennis, Thomas Cushing, Paul Brown, Risa Shapiro, Sarah Shyn, Karen Samfilippo, Jason Spiro, Melissa Hirschenson, and Pantera Sarah. Deb Fass and Fred Grimmel manned the Tao door as usual. Click to Continue Reading

#Sundance Party Report — Burton Experience & Burton Après Lounge at Park City Mountain Resort

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - January 26th, 2012 Filed under: Sundance

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Welcome to Sundance

Burton Experience -- party

Burton igloos

Aaron Paul and his fiance

Emma Roberts

Burton Experience -- view from street

Amanda Wormann and Jessica Kaplan - pic via Style Sight

DJ Tay James - pic via Style Sight

Brent Bolthouse - pic via Style Sight

Burton Experience -- inside the tent

Burton Experience -- pizzaaaa

Burton Experience -- Drink menu

Mannequins and a man at Burton Experience

Burton Experience -- moving out

Gifts bags from Burton

Lauren Brokaw and Chase Weideman from Bismarck Phillips

Burton Experience -- view from the mountain

The Daily Truffle's Lauren Brokaw

Burton Experience

Burton Experience

Celine Nano Luggage spotted

Board bench

Burton Experience -- First Time lift

Burton Experience -- hill view

Mountain Resort map

Event: The Burton Experience & Burton Après Lounge, Park City Mountain Resort

Where: Park City Mountain Resort, First Time Lift

When: Friday January 20th – Sunday, January 22nd

Sightings: Aaron Paul, Brent Bolthouse, Justin Beiber’s DJ, Tay James, Jason Mraz, director Catherine Hardwicke, Emma Roberts, Marc Webber (For a Good Time, Call…), and a more grown up Asher Roth (yes, he is now out of college) plus Burton PR Queen Anne-Marie Dachyshyn and Chief Creative Officer of Burton Snowboards Greg Dachyshyn, Katie Walters and Chase Weideman from Bismark Phillips who called Burton a client, and members of Burton’s pro team including Gab Viteri, Mark Sollors, and John Jackson.

Music: Great music such as Phantogram, Lana Del Rey, Chromeo, and the Beatles

Notes: The best chips and pizza ever PLUS a delish bar, and hot chocolate.

Pics via The Daily Trufle and Stylesight

#Sundance Party Report: CAA Annual Sundance Party sponsored by Simple Night

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - January 25th, 2012 Filed under: Sundance

DJ Lady Sinclair spins the CAA party at 2012 Sundance

Party: CAA event at Sugar with DJ Lady Sinclair and DJ Ruckus
Where: Sugar, 268 Main Street

When: Saturday night, January 21st 2012

Sightings: Kristen Dunst with boyfriend Garrett Hedlund, James Marsden, Paul Dano, William H Macy, CAA’s hosts of the night and co-heads of the CAA finance dept, Roeg Sutherland & Micah Green, Don McNeill of Digital Kitchen *(who is responsible for bringing you the elevator commercials for the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas), Bianca White, reps for Sheets (LeBron James’ new energy strip company that co-sponsored the party), Jaren Eng of Just Jared, Wynter Mitchell of US Weekly and more, Silver restaurant on Main Street owner Lisa Barlow and her publicist New Yorked based Helena Renee, and more.

Music: DJ Lady Sinclair aka Michelle Kath Sinclair and DJ Ruckus

Notes:

• DJ Lady Sinclair aka Michelle Sinclair learned her skills direct from DJ AM who she grew up with in L.A. Michelle’s birth father is late Chicago guitarist Terry Kath; Michelle is in pre-production on a doc about him. Now it’s time for some Truffle 6 degrees of separation … Michelle’s mother was once married to Kiefer Sutherland who is brothers with CAA agent Roeg Sutherland who threw the party. Michelle has been known for her DJ gigs at major events like the Modern Warfare 3 Launch Party, the Louis Vuitton / Vanity Fair rooftop party in Beverly Hills, and currently has an in-house gig at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.

• Greg Andrews, aka DJ Ruckus, made us feel bad about ourselves because we will never be as good at anything as he is at DJ-ing. Watching this man DJ is entrancing and we would have loved to do it for hours! We also think it’s pretty ff-ing cool that Ruckus dated uber super model (understatement) Doutzen Kroes. Ruckus is signed with Yoni Goldberg and Damon DeGraff’s, DGI Management, (DUHH) which has a pretty impressive roster list such as Paul Sevigny, Rev Run, Andre Saraiva, The Misshapes, Jesse Marco, photog Bronques, and more… #NBD, right?

Tags: CAA, Dj Lady Sinclair, Dj Ruckus, James Marsden, Kristen Dunst, Micah Green, Roeg Sutherland, Sundance

Vaveyla! Z “Shahs of Sunset” Reality Show Coming To Bravo!

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - January 25th, 2012 Filed under: Casting Calls

Originally posted January 11, 2012

*Salam, chetori?

Whilst at dinner last night we were told this so called “Persian Jersey Shore” was done taping and is set to air under the name “Shahs of Sunset” on Bravo. No date known as of now. For our readers living out of L.A., Sunset refers to Sunset Blvd in Beverly Hills where many mansions have been built, torn down and re-built with the notorious ‘Persian mansions’ … In one case, a house belonging to a royal Persian family on Sunset burned to the ground — much speculation circulated over the cause of the fire.

This show probably would have been better in the 80s but whatever, for us in Beverly Hills — this is amazing. For some background on the Persian community in Beverly Hills, we refer you to this 2009 W magazine article which includes many friends of the Truffle.

Update: January 23, 2012 :: Bravo just released info about the show so we have added it for you here … Cast members include: Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi (29, Persian princess), Mike Shouhed (33, real estate agents recovering from the financial crisis), Sammy Younai (35, real estate developer), Asa Soltan Rahmati (35, singer), Reza Farahan (38, gay real estate agent), Mercedes “MJ” Javid (30-ish, party girl real estate agent).

Oddly none of the people in our Truffle circuit know any of these people which is a little strange considering that encompasses 4 generations of Beverly Hills natives … do you know them? Comment below if you do.

“Shahs of Sunset” premieres Sunday March 11 at 10/9c …

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Tags: Beverly Hills, Bravo, Jersey Shore, Persian, reality show, Shahs of Sunset, Shaws of Sunset

A little side note from Sundance on the new West Memphis Three documentaries

by: Caroline - January 25th, 2012 Filed under: Awards Season, Sundance

Although there were many points of interest at this year’s Sundance, the most fascinating and moving element was hands-down the new Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) produced documentary about the West Memphis Three which is directed by Amy Berg (who won an Oscar for her preist-molestation film Deliver Us from Evil in 2006) and is titled: West of Memphis. Moreover, the biggest star of Sundance, and biggest shock was one of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, who came along with Peter Jackson and several of the parents of the murdered boys that led to his possibly false imprisonment and death sentence in the 90s. Damien was joined in Sundance with his wife whom he met and married while on death row. The doc is aptly timed with the release of the West Memphis Three from prison this past August although it’s been in the works for ages. Peter was also with his wife who co-produced the film- the couple has been providing financial and public support for the defense since seeing Joe Berlinger’s 1996 documentary Paradise Lost for HBO about the case. The situation is only going to get bigger and bigger, as Berlinger’s follow up in a series of three HBO documentaries, “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” was just nominated for an Oscar yesterday.

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#Sundance Party Report — T-Mobile Village at the Lift (#VATL) with Puma and Miami Oasis

by: Our Little Truffle Hunters - January 23rd, 2012 Filed under: Sundance

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Check-in at the Lift #VATL

Stella Artois Cafe at the Lift

#VATL pass

Entrance to Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Drink menu at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- inside Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Chalk roof at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- inside Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Cisco Adler getting tattooed by Code of Conduct’s Jason Hoodrich at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- drink menu at Miami Oasis

Matt Donnelly in Jeremy Scott bear ears

#VATL -- Udi's gluten free food at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

Puma entrance at the Lift

Tracy Pendleton & Lauren Brokaw

Tracy Pendleton and Matthew Gray Gubler

#PumaSocial at the Lift

#PumaSocial -- Patron 2 way mirror tells you the inner truth

McSmores and McChocolate chip cookiessss

Patron 2 way mirror typing up my diagnosis

Print out from Patron 2 way mirror

#VATL -- Outside the Puma tent

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- the Wireimage photog at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- Ping pong at Puma

#VATL -- silk screening at Puma

#VATL -- Matthew Gray Gubler at Puma

#VATL -- lil Jon at Puma

#VATL -- signing the ping pong table at Puma

#VATL -- garage entrance

#VATL -- garage entrance

#VATL -- outside

The Lift at night -- #VATL

Party: Puma Social & Miami Oasis at the T-Mobile Village at the Lift

Where: Town Lift on Main Street

When: Friday, January 20th – Sunday, January 22nd

Notes: Jeff Best of Best Events converts the Town Lift in Park City on Main Street every year into a snow oasis for Snowdancers… I mean Sundancers — PMK-BNC and Brandlink Communications are brought in to handle press. Domain Media is brought in to wrangle talent for this 3 tiered event which includes Puma/Wireimage inside a tent on the snow by the lift, Miami Oasis housed below on the ground level, and Tao’s pop-up nightclub on the garage level. Stella Artois Cafe is set up next to the Puma tent by the lift. The best part about the whole thing are the girls who do the list camped out in the ticket consuls where one normally buys their ski lift passes; LUV!

Spotted at Miami Oasis at The Lift: Liv Tyler, Andie MacDowell, Isla Fisher, Laura Prepon, James Marsden, Lil Jon (who is still using a blackberry), Cisco Adler getting tattooed by Code of Conduct’s Jason Hoodrich, LA Times’ Matt Donnelly in Jeremy Scott bear ears, Kristin Patrick (Playboy’s Chief Marketing Officer, formerly from WME’s marketing dept), Martine Williamson (Chief Marketing Officer for Revlon), Chris Hopkins (Playboy’s SVP of Brand Partnerships) & his wife Iran Hopkins, Noah Tepperberg walking in with Mario Lopez, and more.

Spotted at Puma/Wireimage: Matthew Gray Grubbler (Criminal Minds), Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Tim Daly, Mechad Brooks, Will Forte, Emma Roberts, Rashida Jones, Elijah Wood, Andy Samberg, Joel Edgerton (The Killing), producer Peter Jackson, Blythe Danner, Anne Heche, Carrie Preston (Good Wife, True Blood), Richard Gere, Emily Blunt, Lizzy Caplan, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth, Ryan Kwanten, Elizabeth Olsen, Allison Janney, Nia Vardalos, Liv Tyler, Cheryl Hines (Suburgatory),Malin Akerman, Cisco Adler, Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Town), Ari Graynor, Edward James Olmos, Frank Langella (here for Robot and Frank), Jason Ritter, Michael Cera, Neil Young talking to MTV inside, Jeff Vespa doing celebrity photos inside the Wireimage studio within Puam, Tracy Pendleton who represents Puma, and more.

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Tags: Puma, Sundance