Howard Stern

Still reeling from the fallout of its highly publicized 2007 prostitution bust, embattled Manhattan strip club Scores West has filed for bankruptcy.

Court papers filed on Friday point to "mounting tax debt" and a "loss in sales" at the voluptuous 10,000-square-foot venue at 536 W. 28th St. "as a result of the actions by the New York State Liquor Authority proceeding against the [club] to revoke its liquor license."  read more »

An animal rights group that calls itself the Paint Panthers painted the words "Bunny Butcher" outside Donna Karan's home in the Hamptons. [NY Daily News]

The Lower East Side still hates yuppies, apparently (a little self-loathing, no?). An activist tells Page Six that everyone is so pissed at Bruce Willis for opening his Bowery Wine Company on East First Street, that they are going to get a pig and name it Bruce. [P6]  read more »

The Associated Press reports that The Justice Department has approved Sirius Satellite Radio's plan to buy its rival, XM Satellite Radio, for $5 billion.

Sirius, which is home to Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Judith Regan, The Rolling Stones, and others, will incorporate XM's programming which includes Oprah Winfrey, E!, and Fox News.  read more »

Today’s—air quotes—1 p.m. Rebecca Taylor show in the Salon at Bryant Park had three distinct, carefully orchestrated parts. One involved folks sitting in chairs and watching Ms. Taylor’s clothes go back and forth. Another section was comprised of models wearing the clothes and stomping on a gold-sequin runway. And the third component, of which we were an integral part, included some 50 people holding meaningless purple flashcards for 45 minutes in a fountainside corral.  read more »

Party promoter and sometimes milliner Ivy Supersonic, a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show, has just landed a lucky, albeit unorthodox, deal with the shock jock. Mr. Stern has agreed to foot the bill for Ms. Supersonic’s imminent breast enlargement surgery. But there’s a catch. Steven Davis, a New Jersey-based plastic surgeon Ms. Supersonic visited on Friday, Jan.  read more »

Howard Stern on Don Imus' return to radio:

At this point, I don't think he's very relevant. People will tune out within a week. I defy you to listen. It's like a rodeo - you know, see how long you can ride a bull? See how long you can keep listening to Imus.

Time it. You'll throw up. You'll get sick. You'll die.

Today brings an intriguing development in party promoter Ivy Supersonic’s public feud with Plumm owner Noel Ashman, who Ms. Supersonic claims still owes her $1,000 for her work on a Halloween bash at the 14th Street nightclub. In an apparent effort to scold Mr. Ashman, Ms. Supersonic admitted to jamming the club’s locks with Super Glue, spray-painting “We’ve closed our doors and will reopen in 2008” on its façade and taping leftover food on the building.  read more »

Hedgy hedge-fund colony in new iteration, America’s Monaco, as reverse migration kicks in; who needs New York, anyhow? Della Femina, ‘We have more airplanes than most countries.’  read more »

Last week, Britain’s Health Minister Caroline Flint announced plans to ban the brave new reproduct  read more »

Last week, Britain’s Health Minister Caroline Flint announced plans to ban the brave new repro  read more »

My little brother says there were a couple things about the Sopranos finale that lifted it into greatness. 1, The characterization of Tony's power. Tony could on the one hand manipulate his men into thinking that he wanted rival boss Phil dead, then visit Phil in the hospital and squeeze his hand and urge him to get well. "So for the first time he's able to compartmentalize his ruthless mob leadership. That is so nuanced," my little brother says. 2, The line that Phil gives to his blonde maid as he brings her toward the Wire Factory to shtup her: "We need to get something straight between us." Exults my little brother: "It's the greatest line of the season. I've never encountered it in 39 years of barroom humor."

He also notes that while Howard Stern was crazy for the show, his dental hygienist and her boyfriend, who live in Edison, hated it. For the same reason my wife hated it and I wasn't crazy about it: because it falsely resolved intense conflicts with harmony, not violence.

My little brother says that even this speaks to the show's excellence. "Curb Your Enthusiasm is really smart but it has a tiny market. Sopranos is the number one show on all cable. It's done that with great writing and nuance, and managed to tow along all the guys crying out for violence."

(P.S. The blatant nepotism of this entry is, I gather, a tradition of blogging. C.f., Instapundit promoting his documentarian wife.)

• Although Howard Stern recently criticized some long-time fans for not following him to Sirius satellite radio, he's definitely not short on cash. The self-proclaimed "King of all Media" is dropping $600,000 on a Southampton rental. And despite having a tough time selling his Liberty Street apartment, Russell Simmons is busy looking for that Hamptons bachelor pad." (New York Post)
• J. Darius Bikoff, founder of Glaceau--which makes Vitaminwater, Smartwater, and Fruitwater--recently purchased an East 72nd St. duplex for $5.6 million. Also, entrepreneur (and part-time Cosmonaut) Gregory Olsen has sold his CPW apartment to Sara Bronfman for $6.45 million. (New York Times)
• While searching for the perfect Hamptons getaway, Katie Couric is apparently "losing it." Her purse that is. (New York)

- Michael Calderone

A tally of word usage on Howard Stern's first day on Sirus Satellite Radio, from 6:01 a.m., when the show opened with an all-flatulence rendition of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra," until it ended at 11:15 a.m.: · Fuck and its variants (e.g. 'fucking,' 'motherfucker,' etc.): 65 · Asshole: 30 (N.B.: Stern's call-in number contains this word.) · Bullshit: 14 · Shit: 13 · Cunty: 10 · Bukkake: 9 · Pussy: 8 · Cock: 7 · Bitch: 3 · Tits: 2 · Goddamn: 2 · Cum: 1 · Boner: 1 —Matt Haber  read more »

A former book peddler remembers the bohemian East Village, before all the Starbucks-sipping college students, naive tourists, and architectural loft buyers. (Sure, junkies and graffiti artists are pretty cool, but wasn't Tompkins Square more radical a hundred years earlier?) Regardless, if the poverty of NYU student life gets you down, try squatting in the Sculpture for Living.

Howard Stern must already be dipping into that $500 million Sirius contract six weeks before his more to satelite radio. Although Mr. Stern already had a $20 million piece of land, the radio personality just purchased a $29.5 million estate next door, according to the New York Post.

Kelly Ripa and husband, Mark Consuelos put their 5,000-square-foot loft on the market for $7.5 million, according to New York magazine. The couple's duplex upstairs is apparently ready.

One lucky rent-stabilized tenant at the old Mayflower Hotel (paying only $200 a month) was bought out for $15 million, according to the Daily News. But developers of 15 CPW already have $650 million in signed contracts, so they made out alright.

At open houses, watch out for the "human-sized lockable cage outfitted with whips, hooks, paddles and bondage devices."

Take a look at the future facelift of Alice Tully Hall, as designed by high-line friendly Diller Scofidio + Renfro.  read more »

Finally, tired of the retro car-theft genre, video game players are turning to real estate development. Welcome to Tycoon City!

-Michael Calderone

The conventional political wisdom is that the 2004 Presidential election will be decided by events t  read more »

In recent weeks, as Howard Stern mounted his one-man battle against the Federal Communications Commi  read more »

Jared, Upper West Side:"We couldn't even get Osama. How are we going to get Saddam?"  read more »

Howard Stern has officially ascended from the ranks of Hamptons renters.  read more »

Wednesday, Aug. 21So Anna Nicole Smith is now the biggest sensation on television.  read more »

If Howard Stern distilled his audience into a single person, that person would probably come pretty  read more »

Comedian Pat Cooper has a bug up his ass. Mr.  read more »

You know that line from the opening of "Howl," the one in which Allen Ginsberg laments the fate of h  read more »

In the lull between lunch and dinner, Pat Cooper sat in the second-floor bar room of the Friars Club  read more »