This holiday season Jessica Seinfeld’s Baby Buggy partners with beauty and spa company Pink Papaya on the Tinytini ($32.50), a selection of products for both mothers and babies. Each gift package comes with Kiwi Kisses Baby Butter, Unscented Tushi Balm and Sulfate-Free Kiwi Kisses Bubbly Bath. All Tinytini products are paraben-free and made with all-natural ingredients and fragrances. The best part? For every Tinytini purchased, one will be donated to a family in need. The giving continues through January, when 2 percent of Pink Papaya’s proceeds will benefit Baby Buggy.
 

Marianne Faithfull
 
Catch singer Marianne Faithfull—’60s flower child and former girlfriend of Mick Jagger—at City Winery December 18–20. One of the most distinguished female singer-songwriters to come out of the UK, Faithfull will perform songs from her prolific career and selections from her new album, Horses in High Heels, which is her 23rd release in the US. (Tickets: $65, $75, $85; concert and meet-and-greet, $100) City Winery, 155 Varick St.

American Ballet Theatre presents Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker this season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with choreography by ABT artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky. Last year, New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay wrote, “American Ballet Theatre has a production like no other, made with complete theatrical authority from first to last. The poetry of Alexei Ratmansky’s vision is very striking. I’m impatient to see it again.” With scene and costume design by Richard Hudson (The Lion King), the show is bound to be unforgettable. Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn

Steven Spielberg

Kids aren’t a priority in Manhattan—as they are in the rest of the country—until Christmas, when hard-working New Yorkers relent and buy back their children’s love by taking them to Z-100’s Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden at $400 a ticket. This year’s took place last Friday and featured some of 2011’s most sizzling headliners: Demi Lovato, Gym Class Heroes, David Guetta, Pitbull, Lady Gaga and LMFAO. 

“I met Gaga before anybody else even knew her,” said Redfoo of LMFAO on the red carpet. “I let her perform front of us in LA. She’d never performed in LA before. I saw the tight space pants and that booty and said, ‘Yeah, baby…’”

Onstage, Gaga mentioned that as a kid Jingle Ball was her “very first live concert” and that she told her mom that night, “I want to be a performer!”

Back on the carpet, Travie McCoy mentioned to reporters that he plans to quit smoking in the New Year. “You guys should never start,” he said. On his hands were tattoos of Daryl Hall’s face, and he said that when he showed them to Hall for the first time he said, “I don’t want to get into the implications of what that’s going to do for your sex life.” McCoy wore hip high tops printed with sketches by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The press line was interrupted momentarily when Hot Chelle Rae met fans that had won a contest. One female tween sobbed convulsively as she received hugs from the group.

Onstage, Pittbull jumped and screamed and sweated. He seemed full of bluster and swagger, but perhaps not so brimming with talent. When Gaga began to sing, everyone was looking for her before her face appeared in a display of Christmas trees onstage. She was wedged between two evergreens. She had everyone raise a hand and do her trademark cat paw at one point.

While the music is good, the act skews young in person. Her last outfit was super-skimpy, and she got on a big motorcycle with antlers. The show ended with gun blasts of red confetti. 

A Winning Tintin
On Sunday, The Adventures of Tintin premiered at the Ziegfeld. The 3-D animated action-detective story is Steven Spielberg’s present to children for the holidays. On the red carpet, Bill Hader told Dispatches that, “Spielberg made my favorite movie of all time, Jaws.”

“The first time I ever saw a Tintin album [penned by Hergé], I was in my thirties,” Spielberg, who directed the film, told me. “I just wish it hadn’t taken me 28 years to get to this project.”

How was it working with producer Peter Jackson?  “A great combination,” he said. “We love working together. We never disagree. We see solutions, pitch to each other, make it funnier.”

Spielberg’s lunch partner that day, George Lucas, also walked the carpet. “It’s incredibly popular in Europe,” offered co-producer Kathleen Kennedy (The Sixth Sense, Seabiscuit), admitting that she and Spielberg won’t get a cut if the film makes sales of Tintin in print go through the roof.

Merry Christmas, descendents of Hergé.

A work by Nan Goldin

New York photographer Nan Goldin pairs her own images with photographs of classic art from the Louvre in the exhibition “Scopophilia” at Matthew Marks Gallery (through December 23). Scopophilia means “the love of looking,” and this show is deeply autobiographical—Goldin explores the inspiration behind her photographs, showcasing them next to images of priceless art she was allowed to photograph with the Louvre’s special permission. This creative mélange of modern and classic art is not to be missed. Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd St., 212-243-0200

Named for the Lower East Side theater where up-and-coming playwrights and performers thrive, the Dixon Place Blaine bag ($325) by Kate Spade is a perfect bag for “carrying scripts while dashing off to your next audition,” or for giving to any professional, stylish New Yorker. Black and dipped in lacquer, with brown leather handles and a striped interior, the bag is roomy and chic. Kate Spade, 454 Broome St.

As couples gifts go, men tend to get short shrift. Gift givers searching for the perfect present for a couple often settle on gilded serving trays, luxury candles and the like. These Goody Grams animal head shot glasses ($140, set of 4) are a manly (and chic) exception. Also available in white at Maison 24, the set includes a ram, bear, reindeer and rabbit glass, each made of solid pewter and able to be balanced on its head. 470 Park Ave., 212-355-2414

See all of Gotham's 2011 Gifts of the Day here.