The only thing left to pave over in the meatpacking district are the cobblestones. If you haven’t heard, you haven’t been paying attention. Florent, the legendary 24/7 bistro, is closing on Gay Pride Day. High-end boutiques, high-end hotels, and the soon-to-be unveiled high-end high-line park have forced Florent’s rent up from $5,000 to $45,000 a [...]

Want to get skinny, but hate to exercise? No problem! Let the earthquakin’ plates of Station Vibration do the work. Step onto the vibrating power plates and shake up into shape. Tone, firm, and at no extra charge, vibration dissolves cellulite, increases muscle, metabolism, flexibility, and aids a host of other ailments; all with the [...]

There’s so much to do just out of hibernation. It’s a big city. You couldn’t possibly do it all. You know you couldn’t possibly do it all but still you want to try. You sooo want to try. But where to start, where to go and with whom? Don’t fret. Sit back, relax, and let [...]

Look up from your cocktail at Urge Lounge, behold the hottest go-go studs in the city hovering above you and remember: one dollar stuffed down that teensy weensy ounce of fabric gets the same goods as one hundred dollars. Nobody said Go-Go dancers make good businessmen. Just don’t offer them change. Although we miss the [...]

You choke on the wafting wake of his overpowering fragrance. Notes of guava and high-pollen-count hibiscus hit you like a tropical fruit punch to the nose. Nobody wants to be the pungent perfume guy. It’s not that you mind being called a fruit, you just don’t want to smell like one. Enter Clean Fragrance. It’s [...]

For shame! Her Madgesty Madonna has singled out her early hit “Holiday” as one song she can’t ever imagine performing again. There remains, however, some measure of solace in knowing it is still possible to drown our sorrows in the spot where she wrote it. Holiday Cocktail Lounge is a St. Marks stronghold. Other than [...]