<![CDATA[Gawker: 1 Oak]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: 1 Oak]]> http://gawker.com/tag/1 oak http://gawker.com/tag/1 oak <![CDATA[Jho Low: Manhattan's Mysterious Big-Spending Party Boy]]> Everyone's taking notice of a rich guy who's apparently trying to single-handedly save the nightlife industry and give leggy models everywhere something to do. His name is Taek Jho Low, a 20-something Wharton grad who loves Cristal. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5401369&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Amy Winehouse's Dad Thinks Her Knockers Are Great]]> Mitch Winehouse thinks Amy's rack was worth the rumored $56,000 cost of silicone. Salman Rushdie scores another PYT. Obama Girl is mauled by a light fixture at that one ubiquitous press junket in Jamaica. Welcome to Thursday's gossip! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5387442&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Who Still Gets Laid At Posh Nightclubs]]> Economic meltdown or not, certain nightclubs still seem to be blessed with celebrities who will show up for free drinks, supermodels who will show up for the celebrities, and billionaires who will show up for the supermodels, black Amex cards at the ready. We know this thanks to writer and costume-lover Hud Morgan, who bravely traded his fruitinis for passionfruit shots and infiltrated 1OAK on behalf of Men's Vogue (a scan is after the jump). Illustrating how magazine publishers, too, are defying the recession and financing the posher forms of writerly hobnobbing. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5066260&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ron Burkle Still Partying, Still Wearing the Same Shirt]]>
 
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=502533&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Preview of Table 8, The Debut of Tuesday Dinner]]> ♦  Table 8 inside the Cooper Square Hotel isn't expected to open for another two months, but that didn't stop chef Govind Armstrong from giving a preview to 60 guests at hotelier Klaus Ortlieb's Tribeca loft last night. [NYO] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=502482&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sam Talbot, Rocco DiSpirito, and Lobster Rolls]]>
  • Life after reality TV: Rocco DiSpirito will be competing on the next season of Dancing with the Stars. [AP]
  • Please don't think of Sam Talbot as a sex object just because he's hot, tattooed, and 6'5". He'd like you to know he can cook, too. [NYT]
  • McCain Foods—the makers of frozen french fries—has a new ad campaign timed for the elections. [AdAge]
  • Whoops: H&H Bagels owner Helmer Toro owes the IRS more than $2 million. [NYP]
  • Just in time for the end of summer, a comprehensive map of places to find lobster rolls in Manhattan. [Gothamist]
  • The salad bar at Whole Foods may not be as healthy as you think, according to Mehmet Oz. [NYSun]
  • Steve Lewis weighs in on the lawsuit against 1OAK and the bankruptcy of Mansion and Pink Elephant. [GNML]
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=501515&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Lawyer Restaurant Owners Love to Hate]]> Meet Daniel "Maimon" Kirschenbaum, Esq. He's only 29—he graduated law school in 2005—but it's safe to say that if the James Beard Foundation gave out an award to the biggest thorn in the side of New York-area restaurateurs, he'd rank up there with inspectors from the Department of Health and ungenerous restaurant critics. Kirschenbaum is a partner at a firm called Joseph & Herzfeld and the go-to man for servers and other restaurant employees when they take on their bosses for skimming tips or firing them without cause. Thanks to word of mouth (and well-placed ads on certain websites), Kirshenbaum has been obscenely prolific in the past couple of years. Just a few of his targets: Heartland Brewery, Nobu, Jean Georges,  B.B. King, Bouley, BondSt, Balthazar, One Little W 12, Abigail Kirsch, BLT Steak, BLT Prime,  BLT Fish, and 40/40. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=501510&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Another Legal Mess for Scott Sartiano]]>
  • Two waitresses at 1Oak say they were fired from Scott Sartiano's club so that they could be replaced with white girls. Now they have a lawsuit in the works. [P6]
  • Michael Phelps was spotted making out with Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice at an Olympics party. Also, Phelps has signed on to write a book about his training regimen. [P6]
  • Beth Ostrosky says rumors that she and Howard Stern were getting married last weekend were false, but that their real wedding is coming up soon. [ExtraTV]
  • For David Blaine's next stunt, he's planning to hang upside down in Central Park for three days. [NYDN]
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=501480&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Club Now Claims To Have Intervened In Gay Attack]]> Nightclub 1 Oak, which has been accused of reacting with total indifference to a gay-bashing incident and of allowing an alleged assailant to escape untouched, is now saying it tried to stop the attacker. Reports the Post: "Club sources say the night was not promoted as a 'gay night' and that the attacker was restrained by security but broke away." The club's flacks are also now saying that "this incident was handled by security and staff immediately," which was not mentioned in their statement to us yesterday. That differs sharply from what one eyewitness told us yesterday: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019449&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1OAK's Image Issue]]> It's been a bad couple of weeks for Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano's 1OAK. First Diddy's Maybach was (supposedly) smashed outside. Then, rather suspiciously, precisely the same thing (supposedly) happened to Paolo Zampolli's Rolls a week later. Yesterday, there were rumors of a drug raid, which turned out to be false. Today brings news of a gay bashing. Lesson to be learned: Stay away from the club if you're not straight, you own a cheesy car worth more than $500,000, or if you have any sense whatsoever. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=500613&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Did 1 Oak Try To Shrug Off Gay-Bashing Incident?]]> When the Meatpacking District club 1 Oak opened in December, it was the toast of the Manhattan nightlife scene. It was founded by a quartet of club veterans including Butter frontman Richie Akiva , Lotus co-owner Jeffrey Jah, and former Ashley Olsen boyfriend Scott Sartiano as a "kind of boutique space" for the elite. But a tipster tells us that everything is not well at 1 Oak; last week, they say, there was a vicious gay-bashing incident in the club—forcing one victim to go to the hospital—that club management tried to sweep under the rug. The eyewitness' full account of the violence, and the club's response to our questions, after the jump. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=396948&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bidding Adieu to Florent, Paying Up for Ko]]>
  • If you're going to pay a farewell visit to the about-to-shutter Florent, forget about ordering eggs Florentine. The gas at the restaurant has been turned off for good. [Eater]
  • The first auction of a reservation at David Chang's Momofuku Ko is underway, and the resy is already commanding a price of $620. The fact that this is a charity auction makes that a little less disturbing.[cMarket via Eater]
  • Todd English is teaming with ex-Tao partner Sam Hazen to develop  "new concepts." [Grub Street]
  • Just in time for summer, New York explains how to "suck out every last ounce of meat" out of a lobster. [NYM, video]
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=500585&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Please Make Checks Payable to James E. McGreevey]]>
  • Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey had a messy day in court yesterday. He's in debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to legal fees and alimony payments. Plus, he's got to pay his partner, Mark O'Donnell (who works for billionaire developer Charles Kushner) $3,000 a month in rent. True love! [NJ.com]
  • Desperate publicity stunt du jour: JE Englebert, the owner of Prime and Suzie Wong's, is offering Lindsay Lohan a free mink coat after it was reported Lohan stole a coat from a Columbia student at 1Oak two weeks ago. [Page Six]
  • Silda Wall Spitzer came out of hiding last night to make an appearance at a benefit for Children for Children, a foundation she founded. She looked "radiant," which may have something to do with the fact she left her disgraced husband at home. [NYDN]
  • Derek Jeter may or may not be dating Minka Kelly, of NBC's Friday Night Lights. [Page Six]
  • Kristin Davis tells Health magazine she was an alcoholic when she was younger. Not quite a sex tape but a nice little nugget of PR just a week before the Sex and the City movie opens. [Us Weekly]
  • Ivana Trump's marriage to boytoy Rossano Rubicondi already appears to be in trouble. The couple never went on a honeymoon and then didn't turn up on the French Riviera as expected. Let's be optimistic and assume they've spent the last month locked away in luxurous suite sipping champagne and eating strawberries. [Page Six]
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=500115&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[After Partyness]]> This one was too good to relegate to the map. Plus it's pretty long so it might show up funky. Behold: at a Tribeca Film Fest after party, we've got Rachel Dratch longing to be back on TV, Nikki "Hairspray" Blonski, Spencer Breslin, Heidi Montag and Spencer Twat trying to control who looks at them, and Ally Sheedy looking ancient. Sighting after the jump, old school Gawker Stalker style. More »
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