New York, at the moment (Mon, April 13, 2009)

Last Sunday, April 4, Spring came to New York City. Sixty-two degrees it was, and calm in the bright sun of a cloudless sky. The city had been waiting.
The winter seemed unusually brutal and long. As late as March we got mugged by the winds Chicago-style – sucker-punched from the northeast, a roundhouse kick to [...]

Designer Clubs

Designer clubs
Rocco Laudizio talks about Sound-Bar and the making of Chicago nightlife
David Schneider

There were hundreds of people on Sound-Bar’s dance floor a couple of Friday nights ago, all off their heads and delirious, belting out the words to Green Velvet’s techno-funk classic “La La Land,” and not one of them [...]

Syn

New club
Syn David Schneider

Rush Street may have an identity crisis on its hands with the advent of Syn, the new lounge/discotheque that recently opened below Jilly’s. Syn refuses the brashness of the Gold Coast–its true milieu is late seventies New York, the underground New York of cool seductiveness, [...]