They might have horrible teeth, and they might have sent us Graham Norton, but credit where credit is due: The Brits are still the world’s greatest wordsmiths. They have a special knack for naming trends and cults that effortlessly surpasses anything on this side of the Atlantic: mods, rockers, buffalo girls, punks, goths … the Read More
A war of words has erupted between two prominent nightclub owners over the city’s smoking ban. “He’s the biggest non-politician hypocrite in New York,” Lotus co-owner David Rabin said of Jimmy Rodriguez, the owner of Jimmy’s Uptown and Jimmy’s Downtown. After an article appeared in the Daily News on Sunday exposing Mr. Rodriguez’s Jimmy’s Downtown Read More
When Tyco’s indicted former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, finally unloaded his East 85th Street condo in November to Sony’s then–music chief Tommy Mottola, he had to do it at a steep discount: $9.25 million, or 42 percent off the asking price of $15.9 million.
It might not just have been his haste to improve Read More
