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Soho House Too 'Artsy' For Plastic Surgeons

Andrew Klapper, a New York plastic surgeon, applied for membership in Soho House, the private Meatpacking District club. But he was turned down, because Soho House said it prefers to cater "to an 'artsy' clientele." Uh, pretty loose definition of "artsy," Soho House! The membership manager there said "We would rather have a great person from IMG versus a plastic surgeon." Perhaps they're looking for a new angle; spies have said the club has been rather dead on recent weekends. (Disagree? Email us). Doree Shafrir once memorably said the club's pool "when not filled with children and their pee, is filled with money managers, mortgage brokers, and Eurotrash." Which sounds like a fairly accurate representation. And how can they say Dr. Klapper isn't artistic when he not only invented the Klapper Breast Scissors, but also pioneered the use of the Davinci (artist name!) Robot system?: More »

2:57 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,733 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: "Artsy types" at SoHo house? I dunno. Whenever I'm there, which used to be pretty goddamned often, the place is crawling with p.r.,wall street, residential brokers trying to sell me crap condos and of course cokeheads. more »

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N+1 Movie Critic Sick of All Those Movie Stars

A.S. Hamrah, film critic for blah-blah-ing lit journal N+1, is stuck at the glamorous Cannes Film Festival but it's not as glamorous as it was when it was new, and that makes him sad. "It’s not just that celebrities are dull. More and more, there’s also something about them that fills us with revulsion. It used to be that a celebrity sighting was cause for celebration. You’d phone the wife and kids: 'Hey, I just saw Robert Stack walking into the Automat!' Now it’s more an occasion for jeering. Or, more accurately, a chance to feel a deep queasiness about what’s happened to our culture. The celebrity is quickly becoming a harbinger of nausea, a delivery system for Weltschmerz, there to remind us that things, actually, are what they seem: pathetic." More »

1:49 PM on Sat May 17 2008
By ian spiegelman
2,556 views, 87 comments

Latest by belltolls: @skahammer: Not a chance ska, I can barely spell. more »

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Snootastic 'Metropolitan Diary' One-Liners

Oh, New York Times Metropolitan Diary, how we do love thy exceptionally pretentious and mildly prejudicial ways so far this year, and really, every year. More »

2:28 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Maggie
6,427 views, 45 comments

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Gramercy Park, Bastion of Manhattan Snobbery, Just Got a Little More Nauseating

In a city of snobs, could there be anywhere snobbier than Gramercy Park, where residents of selected buildings near the park are given keys for entry? It's unlikely, as we learn from yesterday's Times. Now that guests of Ian Schrager's Gramercy Park Hotel may enter the park, longtime residents are pissed that the hotel guests are supposedly leaving the gate open, in which case, "hordes of people may come in." Yes, a trustee of the park actually said that:
An open gate may not seem a terribly pressing issue, but keys to this kingdom are highly prized. The hotel keeps its six keys for guest use on giant silver rings, each about the diameter of a Frisbee and decorated with a showy gold tassel.
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2:40 PM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Doree Shafrir
879 views, 33 comments

Latest by Cotton: I say, lets have fucking wheelbarrow races across the fucking place more »