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1 By Foster Kamer 1/27 4:03pm

THE FRENCH ARE COMING: New York City’s Nightlife Salvation (Maybe, Possibly) Begins Tonight With Rumored Opening of Le Baron

The arrival of Andre Sariva's New York outpost of Le Baron—the most exclusive nightclubs in the world that you're only getting into if you're, like, one of the owners or friends with Stefon—has been waited by those who get off on velvet-rope-rejection-masochism with the eagerness of people who wait for nightclubs for two years at a time. Which is to say: Quite a bit.

As Eater New York's Scott Solish reports, it is supposedly opening this weekend. Read More

4 By Foster Kamer 1/11 4:08pm

FRENCH GUYS

Le Baron, New York City’s Most Anticipated Nightclub Basically Ever, is En Route

French nightlife impresario Andre Saraiva’s Le Baron—with respective locations in Paris and Tokyo, easily two of the most exclusive nightlife spots in the known universe, the likes of which you will never see the inside of—has been anticipated as the messanic salvation of New York City nightlife. Especially ever since word of its stateside arrival was confirmed...in March 2010. Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/22/11 11:49am

Wee Hours

All Night, Every Night: Reflections on a Year on the Town at Boozy Brook Club Lunch

After a few glasses of midday white wine in the lounge of the Brook Club, The Observer walked into the third floor dining room and found ourselves seated next to Gay Talese. We had seen him on a few lucky occasions over the past 12 months—the last night of Elaine’s, the Norman Read More

2 By Michael Orell 12/09/11 5:50pm

Nightlife

Mick Rock Shows Off His Pretty, Pretty Pictures at the W

Remember that great Sean John ad Mark Ronson was in 10 years ago? The Observer loved that ad. Sure we could have asked the producer whether married life had changed him, or “what’s next,” but all we really wanted to know was whether it was P. Diddy’s idea or his to let the toothpick dangle so lazily in that print advertisement we once saw ages ago in VIBE. And as electronic rockers Phantogram left the stage of Symmetry Live—the W New York-Downtown’s music concert series—we asked him.

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1 By Jenna Sauers 10/25/11 6:29pm

The Sporting Life

Watching the Rugby World Cup with Mickey Rourke (Who Knew He Was an All-Blacks Fan?)

Around 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, the bouncers started warning patrons of the Red Lion that if they left, they would not be readmitted. But inside, the bar was still serving, and the crowd was not thinning: this was a “lock-in.” Patrons had each paid $10 for the privilege of watching live, on one of the Greenwich Village bar’s many available screens, New Zealand play France for the Rugby World Cup. Kick-off would be at 4 a.m. Read More

1 By Nate Freeman 10/13/11 4:45pm

Nightlife

Raise a Glass for the Holiday Cocktail Lounge: Storied East Village Dive Could Be Done

For the last two years, the Holiday Cocktail Lounge, hailed by some to be New York's grimiest, sloppiest and most dastardly dive bar -- i.e. New York's best dive bar -- has soldiered forward with its captain, Stefan Lutek, gone. He died at the age of 89 after decades of tending bar at the joint, Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/11/11 7:36pm

The Eight-Day Week

A scene from Alexander Payne's The Descendents, which closes the New York Film Festival.

Curtain Closes on New York Film Festival in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, October 10 Lucy Liu by the Numbers In New York, a night can often be of two minds—two disparate occasions, with opposite crowds, on far-off edges of Manhattan. Take Wednesday, for example. Lucy Liu is having friends over to the Tory Burch boutique, a tony edifice up on Madison Avenue, to celebrate Seventy Two, Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/11/11 7:29pm

The Wee Hours

The Wee Hours: Sex and Death at Alice Tully Hall

“Wow, this is it, this view, New York City!” Michael Fassbender said after opening the door to the roof of the Standard, where the glass buildings lining the West Side bound forth from the meatpacking district toward midtown. It was Friday night, and The Observer had just watched the New York Film Festival’s screening of Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/04/11 7:07pm

The Eight-Day Week

Bill Clinton Walks Over to the Mondrian Soho in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, October 5 Walk It Off El Camino de Santiago is an ancient religious pilgrimage that for centuries has led Christians to a cathedral in northwestern Spain. It’s said to be the final resting place of Saint James. It’s also the subject of a new film, The Way, starring Martin Sheen Read More

1 By Nate Freeman 9/27/11 7:29pm

The Eight-Day Week

Amanda Hearst, chair of the Whitney's studio party.

New York’s a Carnival in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, September 28 Hip Hop for Haiti As we head into October, New York again braces itself for the annual autumn spree of charity functions. And though the foundations vary, representing any number of worthy causes, it still seems you can’t go a week in this town without a benefit Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/26/11 2:34pm

Media Power Bars

The Five Best Possible Bars and Boîtes Based on Conde Nast Publications

If you go to 5 Baltschug Street in Moscow, Russia, you'll see a 17th Century building with Maybachs and Bentleys lying idly nearby, all waiting for the men they drive around to return from a certain smoke-filled lounge. It's a place where the rich men of that city can enjoy cocktails and bottles, all while Read More

2 By Nate Freeman 9/20/11 7:38pm

The Eight-Day Week

Parties Heat Up as Weather Cools Down in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, September 21 Hint of Limelight The dog days are over. The lounging by the pool, the summer Fridays, the Hamptons benefits: all things of the past. And what better way to get back in the metropolitan mood than to recall all those Read More

5 By Nate Freeman 9/20/11 7:02pm

Fashion Week

The Wee Hours: LiLo Crashes Marc Jacobs Bash Before Jagger Struts On In

The hotel guests at Dream Downtown had suitcases, satchels and children piled up next to the check-in counter, waiting interminably for a chance at a room, and as they did swirls of fashionable men and women speed-walked by without a word or a look—they were headed to the last big event of the week, the after-party for Marc Jacobs and his spring and summer collection. The hotel guests ventured an occasional glace at the well-attired cohort with the mysterious wristbands, striding confidently toward the tucked-away area in the back, but mostly they slouched on pieces of luggage and scratched at purple eyes, unknowing of the scene unfolding out of sight. Read More

10 By Nate Freeman 9/20/11 2:43pm

The Daily Transom

Katie Couric Tries In Vain To Curb Observer Writer’s Smoking Habit

The Observer had just finished dinner at Osteria Del Circo and we felt like having a cigarette. The restaurant, tucked into a sloping corner of midtown, was hosting a party for the new documentary The Man Nobody Knew, about the C.I.A. mystery man Read More

3 By Nate Freeman 9/16/11 3:53pm

Fashion Week

Miss Lily’s Chic Appeal

Last Sunday, The Observer was at Milk Studios, in the Meatpacking District, to see a presentation by The Lake & Stars, a Brooklyn-based lingerie line. The models stood with unflinching faces, wearing nothing but nightgowns and skimpy underwear, as a man served rum-spiked horchata from a wooden wagon. Editors chatted up other editors about the Read More

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NIGHTLIFE

THE FRENCH ARE COMING: New York City’s Nightlife Salvation (Maybe, Possibly) Begins Tonight With Rumored Opening of Le Baron

Le Baron, New York City’s Most Anticipated Nightclub Basically Ever, is En Route

All Night, Every Night: Reflections on a Year on the Town at Boozy Brook Club Lunch

Mick Rock Shows Off His Pretty, Pretty Pictures at the W

Watching the Rugby World Cup with Mickey Rourke (Who Knew He Was an All-Blacks Fan?)

Raise a Glass for the Holiday Cocktail Lounge: Storied East Village Dive Could Be Done

Curtain Closes on New York Film Festival in the Eight-Day Week

The Wee Hours: Sex and Death at Alice Tully Hall

Bill Clinton Walks Over to the Mondrian Soho in the Eight-Day Week

New York’s a Carnival in the Eight-Day Week

The Five Best Possible Bars and Boîtes Based on Conde Nast Publications

Parties Heat Up as Weather Cools Down in the Eight-Day Week

The Wee Hours: LiLo Crashes Marc Jacobs Bash Before Jagger Struts On In

Katie Couric Tries In Vain To Curb Observer Writer’s Smoking Habit

Miss Lily’s Chic Appeal

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