By Drew Grant 1/23 11:26am

Shindigger

Jason Binn and Selita Ebanks at Marquee. (Patrick McMullan)

Update: Chelsea Hot Spot Marquee Tries to Get Its Groove Back, Noah Tepperberg Responds

Update: Mr. Tepperberg responds below.

When describing Marquee, the recently reopened upper-Chelsea nightclub, you might find yourself falling back on that Talking Heads song “Heaven.” You know, the bar where nothing, nothing ever happens? When a nightclub reopens exactly one decade after its first inauguration, in the exact same spot, with the exact same owners and the exact same name, it’s hard not to drift back to the verse: “When this party is over, it will start again; it won’t be any different, it’ll be exactly the same.” Read More

By Drew Grant 9/21/12 12:20pm

off the record

Jason Binn celebrates with Du Jour's digital cover girl, Nicole RIchie (PcM)

The Division of DuJour’s Labor

There were a lot of nontraditional elements to Jason Binn’s new quarterly, DuJour magazine: It was partnered with online flash-sale site Gilt Groupe, had two co-editors, and launched earlier this month as both an online property for Gilt’s members and a direct-mail glossy sent to 250,000 of the country’s 1 percenters. Any one of these qualities would be enough to raise eyebrows … especially for a brand that sought to woo luxury advertisers, many of whom are still wary of anything that strays too far from the Vogue norm.

But Mr. Binn—founder and former CEO of Niche media (the company behind Hamptons and Gotham magazines) who resigned in 2010 to work as a consultant for Gilt as chief adviser—had a plan to create an autonomous brand that would partner with his former employer to mine its membership data on one end, while creating a totally autonomous product on the other. And amazingly, he seems to have pulled it off. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/28/12 1:18pm

off the record

JASON BINN

He’s Binn Busy! With Du Jour, Jason Binn Homes in on Familiar Niche, Digitally

When Jason Binn announced his return to the publishing business on Monday—with a multi-platform luxury lifestyle magazine sponsored by Gilt Groupe, Hudson News and Dufry duty free—the response was so big it crashed his computer.

“I tend to go out and meet people and I’m very engaging socially and it’s never happened before,” the Niche Media founder told Off the Record, from his home office in Manhattan. “I’ve had three tech people to my house and I’ve got Gilt people helping me out…it’s great because it’s horrible.” Read More

By John Koblin 7/29/09 12:01am

Society-Mag Smackdown

Late last year, a man named Aidan Vola, a plumber by trade, decided to launch a society magazine called New York Hamptonite. Using $118,000 of his own savings, he assembled a sales team and rented a small office in Bridgehampton. At 3 a.m. on May 22, 2009, the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, his distributor Read More

By John Koblin 7/22/08 11:39pm

Church Cuddles Up to State: Media’s Glossy New Reality

In the late 1990s and early part of this decade, a young journalist named Andrew Essex was on the rise in Manhattan. He was a Talk of the Town editor at The New Yorker under Tina Brown; then a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly; then executive editor at Fairchild’s revamped Details. There were also stints Read More

By Staff 10/24/05 8:53am

Weekend Roundup

Last week, The Observer reported that financier Roberto de Guardiola, and his interior designer wife, Joanne, are selling their East 64th Street townhouse for close to $30 million. They certainly move fast. Now, the couple has bought five apartments in the Sherry Netherland Hotel, according to Page Six.

Braden Keil provides Read More

By Michael Calderone 10/10/05 12:00am

Gotham-ist Jason Binn Snaps Up Tribeca Condo for $2 M.; Jane Pauley Sells on C.P.W. for $13 M.; Lincoln Slept Here!

Magazine publisher Jason Binn is known for luxury living, and his real-estate broker wife, Haley Lieberman Binn, understands bricks and mortar. As chief executive of Niche Media, Mr. Binn publishes high-end glossies like Gotham, Hamptons and, most recently, Boston Common and Capital File; Ms. Binn is a broker at Stribling & Associates.

With a recent Read More

By Choire Sicha 7/25/05 12:00am

The Polo Crashers

Those few who find themselves in a position to knowledgeably discuss the attendees of the Bridgehampton Polo Club games often talk in code. New Money. No Money. The Real People don’t come anymore.

The interpretation of this code might lead one down some very dark social alleys. Still, more objective comments might be made about Read More

By Staff 7/14/05 1:44pm

Making The London Scene: She’s A Whippet-Thin Stunna, He’s Dead Sexy!

The absolutely most luscious thing about working in an office is sharing the wealth of magazine subscriptions. Speaking of: The Transom purchased, actually paid for, a subscription to Hamptons magazine more than a month ago, and it has yet to arrive. Paging Jason Binn, your order fulfillment department is making The Transom very, very unhappy. Read More