New York, August 30 – Kanye West celebrated the release of his new album, Late Registration, with an intimate dinner hosted by Complex magazine and Hennessy. The dinner was at a spectacular converted factory called The Foundry, and it was intimate, most likely, because it was located in Queens, just a convenient twelve blocks from the subway. Since most of the guests – Nick Cannon, Herbie Hancock, who also released a new record that day, record exec L.A. Reid and hip-hop violinist Miri Ben Ari – were delivered by car, we’ll just blame the lateness on hip-hop time: the 9 P.M. after party was delayed because, at midnight, they were still serving the 7 P.M. dinner.