New Yorker shouts out Nello in Talk of the Town

From the current New Yorker: Such is pretty much the routine at the city’s annual wonk week, when midtown hotel lobbies and East Side restaurants swell with international eminences (Argentines at Nello’s, Congolese at the Waldorf), and the social order, for a brief moment, is realigned. Jalal Talabani snubs Woody Allen at Circo and is applauded anyway. Alyssa Milano stands ignored at the Sheraton while, nearby, the space-tourism entrepreneur Richard Branson is trailed by groupies. One veteran conventioneer, having just spent an afternoon at a panel with Warren Buffett, Barbra Streisand, John Glenn, and Shimon Peres, regarded the experience with a kind of weariness. “I feel the same way about classical music,” he said. “Six months later, I’ll look back and decide it was interesting.”

For the record, we wouldn't snub Woody Allen.