New York Nightlife Fixture Don Hill Dies at 66

Don Hill (ne Donald Mulvihill), the legendary New York club owner and manager,died yesterday at the age of 66.

Don Hill (ne Donald Mulvihill), the legendary New York club owner and manager,died yesterday at the age of 66.
We were too busy having drinks with a bunch of business writers last night to watch The City. Fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern finally sobered up enough to let us know what really went down.
Photo by Skye Parrott for Dossier. Read the Gawker interview with Leigh Lezark over here.
Anna Wintour's Make-People-Like-Me-Before-My-Contract-Is-Up Tour 2009 needed a charitable arm. She came up with Fashion's Night Out, a plan to save the industry, the economy, and her job all at once. But it's not a charity, it's a power play.
Since you first saw photos of the Misshapes, that scowling chick with the black hair and those two vaguely interchangeable gay guys who also sometimes had black hair, you've had so many burning questions about them swirling round your head, right? No? Oh well, the people at Page Six magazine, for reasons best known…
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"Meanwhile, star D.J.'s the MisShapes, skinny and black-clad, huddled with several creature-of-the-night friends behind the D.J. booth, looking bored. Occasionally, one of them donned headphones and approached the turntables. "For corporate events like this, it's like, whatever," said the 'smart' MisShape, Geordon…
Clubkid fashion label Heatherette was given some award last night by the stuffy National Arts Club on Gramercy Park—clearly this was a crazy attempt to draw the youth into the ranks of its members. The oak-paneled, floral-carpeted lobby was filled with flamboyant gays, aging relics from the Tunnel days and a few…
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