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Big-spending Malaysian is the mystery man of city club scene

A fleet of black Cadillac Escalades hums outside Chelsea hot spot Avenue -- the A-list watering hole of such celebrities as Justin Timberlake and Lindsay Lohan. As the car doors open, a dozen men emerge and a bouncer whisks them over the club's ...

From JENNIFER GOULD KEIL AND BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  P. Diddy,  Cadillac,  Justin Timberlake,  Council on Foreign Relations

NYC is Georgetown

Make way, because the Mothership is landing in The Bronx tonight, and legendary funk artists George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic are on board. "Oh, artsy fartsy, huh?" says Clinton after being told the 8 p.m. show is taking place at Lehman Center ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Clinton,  Grateful Dead,  The Beatles

A is for anniversary!

If you know that “C” is for cookie and anyone living in a garbage can is likely to be grumpy, you probably know the way to Sesame Street. What’s hard to believe — even for the purple vampire who taught many of us how to count — is that the PBS kids ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PBS,  Buzz Aldrin,  Anderson Cooper,  LL Cool J,  Kobe Bryant

It's berry scary

If the cereal aisle at your grocery store has seemed a bit spookier as of late, it’s not just you. In the weeks leading up to Halloween, Monster Cereals Boo Berry and Frankenberry rise from the near-dead to join their popular brother Count Chocula on ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: General Mills, Inc.,  Boris Karloff,  Peter Lorre,  Nestle

Home field advantage

For most New Yorkers, going to the World Series isn’t realistic. Just ask the Mets. Lucky for those of us who won’t be in the world’s biggest bar tonight — otherwise known as Yankee Stadium — there are plenty of places around town for taking in the ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  ESPN,  Sean Avery

Band-aid

IF your band is among the hundreds of acts that have been in town since Tuesday for the CMJ festival, you’re surely hoping all the big record execs will remember your name. Of course, your odds are better if you were in participating bands like Angry ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Led Zeppelin (musician),  U2 (musician),  Jeff Beck

Grin & scare it

We don’t need an excuse to dress crazy and stay out late on a Saturday night, but a week from tonight, it’ll also be OK to wear a mask and demand candy from strangers without the police getting involved. Between ghosts, ghouls and B&Ts, Halloween is no ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dennis Rodman,  Nick Cohen,  Janis Joplin,  Kurt Cobain,  Jim Morrison

Art, paper, scissors

You can see a Gorky at the Whitney or a Rembrandt at the Frick, but it’s all about paper at the Museum of Arts and Design’s “Slash: Paper Under the Knife” exhibition. The show officially unwrapped last weekend but really got into action Wednesday, when ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Arts and Design,  Rembrandt,  Marilyn Manson,  Rose McGowan,  Threeasfour (designer)

NY vs. LA

As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim get ready to square off for a trip to the World Series (where the LA Couldn’t-Hack-It-in-Brooklyn Dodgers will possibly be waiting), New Yorkers can take comfort in the fact that, win or lose, ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Blaxploitation, nightclub style

SIX nights a week, SoHo’s decadent GoldBar serves as a debauched hideaway where one might expect to find dodo eggs on the menu and hundred dollar bills in the seat cushions. But Mondays have become a family affair. Models, aspiring hoods, hipsters, and ...

From BRIAN NIEMIETZ, New York Post,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Marvin Gaye,  Christy Turlington,  Naomi Campbell

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