Rock n Bowl NY Style
(ex)Wetlands Owner and Blue Ribbon Owner's Cut A Gruve
By BEN SISARIO nytimes
Published: July 31, 2008
Opening a rock club in New York is not as easy as it used to be.
There’s the insane cost of real estate, as well as fierce competition as the battered music industry looks to live performances for steady income, and national promoters expand their reach into smaller spaces.
But hardest of all, said Peter Shapiro, who owned Wetlands in TriBeCa from 1996 until it closed in 2001, is just coming up with a new angle. That’s why he’s excited about Brooklyn Bowl, his spacious new room in Williamsburg. A combination 600-capacity music club and 16-lane bowling alley, it will also have a menu created by Blue Ribbon, a chain of restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
“To sit at a show, cock your head back, watch a band and then leave, it’s been done,” Mr. Shapiro said. “But to come see a show, do some bowling, eat some French-bread pizza from Blue Ribbon — that hasn’t been done.”
(ex)Wetlands Owner and Blue Ribbon Owner's Cut A Gruve
By BEN SISARIO nytimes
Published: July 31, 2008
Opening a rock club in New York is not as easy as it used to be.
There’s the insane cost of real estate, as well as fierce competition as the battered music industry looks to live performances for steady income, and national promoters expand their reach into smaller spaces.
But hardest of all, said Peter Shapiro, who owned Wetlands in TriBeCa from 1996 until it closed in 2001, is just coming up with a new angle. That’s why he’s excited about Brooklyn Bowl, his spacious new room in Williamsburg. A combination 600-capacity music club and 16-lane bowling alley, it will also have a menu created by Blue Ribbon, a chain of restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
“To sit at a show, cock your head back, watch a band and then leave, it’s been done,” Mr. Shapiro said. “But to come see a show, do some bowling, eat some French-bread pizza from Blue Ribbon — that hasn’t been done.”
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Jean-Georges looks forward to tastings this week for the 50 seat pizzeria he’s doing with Sullivan Street Bakery’s Jim Leahey at 230 Ninth Avenue at 24th street. It’s Jean-George’s first pizzeria venture and Leahy’s first restaurant. Leahey is an icon to purists who admire his style of slow natural fermentation. “I’ve been using his bread for years,” says Vongerichten. About pizza? ”We’ll have our five cents to say,” he said. We being Phil Saurez. “He’s my producer. He did Michael Jackson’s "Thriller." Now he does me.” Vongerichten’s Spice Market is about to open in Doha (Qatar). He’s signed to do a steak house at the Pheonician in Arizona, and is negotiating with a landmark hotel to do a steak house in Manhattan. He won’t say where –“It’s still in negotiation and anything can happen.” Rumors I hear put it on the Upper East Side. ((from Gael Greene))
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fivethrityeight.com on the (lack of a) Bradley effect. I keep hearing that this is going to doom Obama, but the facts just don't back it up. Of course maybe the Presidential race is somehow different, but I don't see why it should be.
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