A summit of angry internet types took place last night; it may have ended in a lasting peace. Not since Yalta have three leaders as large as Lockhart Steele (who is at least technically our boss) and Ben Leventhal from Eater and Abbe Diaz, the Koreshian mercurial leader of PXthis (the forum-land for nightlife,…
The author needed to meet some very important person from the world of publishing, and his tightly-wound editor let him know it by waving frantically and then physically dragging him over to the corner of the bar. Dana Vachon had been born wealthy and healthy and handsome and he was right to view himself as entirely…
Our inbox here is constantly inundated with press releases announcing such groundbreaking news as a Bulgarian legend going on tour or an interview with some dude from Maroon 5 on Sirius. That is to say, each day we lose our love for life a little more. But some days—one or two a year, if you're lucky— there's a little…
Say hello to Racked, a new blog about shopping and retail from the folks who brought you Curbed and Eater. One of those folks happens to be Lockhart Steele, managing editor of Gawker Media! Feel the non-synergy! We're not sure how to navigate the massive maze of conflicts this one presents, but it's not like we…
The marketing geniuses at Calvin Klein think they can replicate the success of "generation-defining" CKOne by marketing their new smell, CKIn2U, to today's hip young "technosexuals," with lines like "She likes how he blogs, her texts turn him on. It's intense. For right now." But are the technosexuals buying it? Huh!…
In case you haven't yet made plans for Valentine's Day, might we suggest you take your sweetie over to Balthazar? It's a neighborhood favorite, you know. We're not going to tell you what to order, but we will let you know that our publisher Nick Denton and his editorial sidekick Lockhart Steele always enjoy sharing…
Next month in Styles: "For Lockhart Steele, Quotewhoring Is More Than Just a Night Out."
You catch that Styles piece on the bright young things who like to breakfast late? Seems that what with the rise of disposable income and "late-rising professions like fashion, art, publicity and Web publishing," (we were up at 5:30, but whatever) a new "social tribe" of douchebags who dine after dawn has emerged. The…
Restaurateur Wylie Dufresne, or someone who ought to be him, responds to criticism on Lockhart Steele's blog of the Lower East Side, and by extension, his new restaurant on Clinton Street, WD-50: "To Mr Negative and his supporters - I am so terribly sorry that my restaurant is of no value to you. You've lived here…
Lower East Side evangelist Lockhart Steele has revamped his blog and added comments to his review section. Lockhart's review of WD-50: "The prices establish a new high-water mark for the neighborhood, but for that one special meal, this is one special place." A reader's response: "I've lived around the corner from…
LES evangelist and blogger Lockhart Steele was right. The Lower East Side is the coolest neighborhood in Manhattan. Or so says the NY Post. (I'm not sure anyone reads the Post to find out what's cool, but we'll just go with it.)
Sweet 'n' Ludlow [Post]
LES correspondent Lockhart Steele reviews the newly-opened Ruby Lounge: "We'd heard rumors it was going to be a pleasant place to hang out, with cuisine as well as drink, but the vibrating techno beats (which don't usually phase us) drilled so deep into the skull that we felt like we were experiencing that new sound…
Lockhart Steele reports from, as usual, the Lower East Side: The bartender to a patron at The Magician: "You know, if you smoke in the back room, I probably won't notice. But don't get used to it. This isn't going to be one of those smoking bars." Spotted on Ludlow: petitions to "ban the ban." Also: JVG's dissenting…
The Gothamist's Jake Dobkin takes Lockhart Steele up on his challenge and reviews Rice to Riches in excruciating detail. Jake's description of the interior: "do you remember that place Bot that opened next to Rice on Mott Street? Well, if that place got into a threesome with the Remote Lounge on Bowery and a Haagen…
Lockhart Steele reviews the much-ballyhooed (particularly by Lockhart himself) Nolita rice pudding shop Rice-to-Riches: "The crowd was pulsating, the servers too chipper, the flavors obtuse. We tried the Strawberry Floozy, which tasted like a goopy strawberry sherbert, with lumpsalbeityespleasing lumps. Today we…
Nolita rice pudding shop Rice to Riches opens today in what appears to be a concerted but potentially futile attempt to force LES blogger Lockhart Steele to stop pounding on the locked door and demanding information.
Rice to Riches [Daily Candy]
Blogger JVG takes issue with Lockhart Steele's Lower East Side obsessions: "WHEREAS Lockhart Steele, author of the eponymous weblog lockhartsteele.com, has for months on end been incessantly and with utter disregard for the welfare of his readers posting disinformation about the hotel under construction across the…
Newsday reports that hit-and-run publicist Lizzie Grubman will be returning to the Hamptons this year. "...I want to make it loud and clear that the Hamptons have been my second home since I was a child, and I want to show Long Island and the Hamptons how much I love them by doing positive things." Like not running…
Film maker Peter Sollett on why the Lower East Side is rarely depicted in film "unless it's a shot of Matt Damon walking through": because people on the Lower East Side are ugly. Okay, so he didn't say that exactly. He said, "Because the people who live in this neighbourhood don't look like the kind of people who draw…
