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Jack Bauer Embraces His Inner Metal-Head at The Bowery Hotel
The Canadian band Anvil is an 80's metal band you most likely have never heard of — unless you're a metal fan and you're from Canada. Kiefer Sutherland, a.k.a. everyone's fave hunky hero Jack Bauer on 24, is both!
When The Bowery Hotel hosted the afterparty for the New York premiere of Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by Sasha Gervasi & starring frontman Lips (Steve Kudlow) and drummer Robb Reiner, the original metal gods got in-person props from Sutherland and Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder — and (we think) some guys from Anthrax.
The humble duo Lips & Robb noted they'd also seen "that guy Zach from Scrubs making out with some chick" at the Bowery Hotel during their stay (interesting...) and, as far as their hotel experience is concerned, Lips told us, "This place is a hell of a lot nicer than some of the places we stayed when touring in Europe."
So we take it there we no celeb meltdown incidents during their time there, then.
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The Bowery Hotel: Where Celebs Go To Breakdown
How did New York and its revolving population of distressed celebrities ever survive before The Bowery Hotel came to be? You'd think that it was created for the express purpose of holding launch parties and refined cocktail hours for downtown types, but no--people actually sleep here! Despite what you read in the gossip columns, it's a real hotel.
Open for barely two years already, The Bowery has quickly come to be known as the hotel for paparazzi to stalk during big events in New York, such as Fashion Week and the Tribeca Film Festival. Consider it The Dorchester Hotel for the States. Were we to detail all of the crazy tabloid stuff that has gone down here, we'd need to take a klonopin and the rest of the day off, and so we'll just stick to regaling you with the highlights:
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NY Fashion Week Spills Over Into Big Name Hotels
Today is the day that stilettos and mascara wands invade the area around Bryant Park in New York City as Fashion Week winds up for weeks-worth of designer runway shows. With over 200 shows and presentations planned, not all can be held in the temporary tents at the official Bryant Park space, and this means that the city's trendy hotels end up with a healthy chunk of the action.
In case you happen to be in the Big Apple right now and are wondering why black town cars are whisking away fashionistas from your hotel stoop, we've compiled a list of the top hotel fashion destinations for events this week:
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Ron Burkle Brings the Party to the Bowery Hotel
"Billionaire party boy" (er, we'd say "man") Ron Burkle -- who has a staggering amount of money and a small amount of fame among the masses (if only because he was the dude who filed a lawsuit against Anne Hathaway's sleazy ex-boyfriend) -- is reportedly moving into the Bowery Hotel.
That's right, folks: there were two extraordinarily expensive loft penthouses available up on the top floor of the hotel and Guest of a Guest is sayin' the Burkle himself has nabbed one.
The price tag? $30,000 a month.
We sort of expected someone like Lindsay Lohan to move in there, but we suppose he'll wander downstairs and go gallivanting with Lohan and Sam or any of the rich hipster doofuses that hang out at the Bowery.
Guess it's not a party til a sugar daddy-ish type shows up to reign over the hotel. As G of a G so perfectly worded it, "so much excitement hasn't hit a hotel since Dunston checks in."
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BlackBook Tells Us the Best Hotels for Modelizing During Fashion Week
It's official. According to insiders at BlackBook Magazine, the two best hotels to spot "fashion royalty" during New York Fashion Week are...
The Gramery Park Hotel and The Bowery Hotel.
Of course you're dying to know why...aren't you?
Already well-established celebrity hangs, from Padma Lakshmi to The LoRon (our new name for the Lohan-Ronson couple), to star-spangled soirees for Ashton Kutcher and even Weinstein brawls, these two are perched atop the A-List.
According to BlackBook, The Gramercy is:
"hosting the launch party for The Rachel Zoe Project on Thursday... the Gramercy is a veritable vending machine of skinny girls air-kissing."
Also you may not want to (or want to) miss this one:
"Intermix is celebrating 15 years of fashion at the Bowery Hotel on Saturday. Expect Olsens."
[Photo via NY Times]
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Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson Maybe Get Trapped Inside Bowery Hotel
According to Perez, life partners/under the radar lezzies/BFF's Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson somehow managed to get trapped inside their room at the Bowery Hotel this weekend.
A (reliable?) source told him the pair had to exit via their second-story balcony (not one of the balconies with the jacuzzis or outdoor showers, though) and scaled the wall Spiderman-style to get out of the room.
Yeah, we don't really get it either.
People.com spotted the couple-ish thing dining at the hotel's Gemma Restaurant before the two started partying on the Bowery's bar patio. And they were lookin' cute! But then...
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Demi Moore Throws Ashton a 30th Birthday Party at the Bowery Hotel
Is it wrong that we care more about who showed up for Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday than we do about Ashton Kutcher himself?
The guy hasn't had a decent movie since...well...ever, really and at this point he'll probably be most remembered for marrying much-older Demi Moore. But that totally worked out for him because look who she brought to his 30th birthday party at Gemma inside the Bowery Hotel:
Among the guests: Willis and his model-girlfriend Emma Heming; Salma Hayek and her fiance François-Henri Pinault; famed producer Guy Oseary and Madonna, who brought him a gift and sang him "Happy Birthday!"
The crowd then moved over to the site of the Bowery Hotel's newest sister property The Hotel Riverview where they partied at basement club, Socialista. Spotted there was Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler, Roberto Cavalli, Lucy and Liu.
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Yet Another Bowery Hotel Bar Update
There was a whole lot of Bowery Hotel news on the Interwebs this week, but we're not sure that any of it really adds up. Let's take a look back and see what we can divine before we head down there this weekend to figure it out for ourselves, shall we?
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Double Helping of Manhattan Hotel Restaurants
Remember when we told you about the impending rodeo/cowboy/mechanical bull restaurant coming to midtown New York? Well, it must not be a joke because the Rockefeller Center Hotel has gone and put up signage advertising the place. But don't rush over just yet--Johnny Utah's won't open until at least June 14. That's the scheduled date, but as always, we're skeptical.
And with good reason. We've been waiting ages for sexy Italian restaurant Gemma to open at The Bowery Hotel. Now Down by the Hipster reports that progress is being made, but a tipster to the site admits things still aren't "set up." This is why we never believe it when we hear "We'll be open in, oh, about six weeks."
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· Gemma Getting Ready [DBTH]
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Not Fighting the Crowds at the Dream Hotel
Last month sis site Jaunted paid a visit to the midtown Dream hotel and the next-door restaurant, Amalia. We decided to check the space out, too, but we didn't go for dinner. We snuck downstairs to the bar/lounge D'Or to really make the scene.
Or so we thought. Turns out, we were the scene--the only folks in the bar. Now, we admit we were there early in the night. But when we chatted with an employee, he told us things only really buzz for a couple hours a night: Between 11 and 1 is your best bet. Then again, maybe you'd like a quieter New York hotel scene than you find downtown.
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· Destination: Amalia [Jaunted]
· The Bowery Hotel ... Knife Fight [NYMag]
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New York Times 'Discovers' The Bowery Hotel
OMG--the cat's out of the bag! The New York Times has discovered The Bowery Hotel. Intrepid reporter Denny Lee checked in to find out what it's like at this completely under-the-radar hotel down on--get this!--New York's old Skid Row. Imagine that!
Ok, ok, after we got past all the faux hype in the review, what did we learn about the property? Not much we didn't already know:
The latest venture from Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson, who created the Maritime Hotel and numerous boîtes, the hotel evokes the Gilded Age of red waistcoats, hand-set bricks and wood-paneled elevators. And the views from the upper floors are positively grand. So what if you might have to step over a few vestigial bums to get there?
Funny, we've been telling you about all this for months. The only bit of news the Times brings to the party is that the restaurant, Gemma, still isn't open. Hmm, just give them six to eight weeks, k?
[Photo: Casey Kelbaugh for the NY Times]
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· The Bowery Hotel coverage [HotelChatter]
· Sean MacPherson coverage [HotelChatter]
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While the Bowery Hotel Was Sleeping...
We're making it a hat trick this morning of New York City hotel stories....
We have a Bowery Hotel double whammy today--a first person review from a recent guest and news of a second Sean MacPherson/Eric Goode hotel, The Lafayette House Hotel.
A HotelChatter tipster sent us this "just the facts" review of the Bowery.
Just stayed at the Bowery. Pretty sweet, although higher wattage bulbs in the halls would improve the ambiance. Our room was terrific, including the best shower and bedding we've ever experienced.
The neighborhood was mediocre for walking at night although not unsafe because NYU was in session and a lot of kids were roaming around. Daytime walking is excellent, with easy walking to Chinatown, Little Italy, SOHO, NOHO Greenwich etc etc, plus the financial district and the World Trade center rebuilding site.
Subway access is three blocks away. The valet shagged cabs for us. Not a lot of local restaurants for dinner, but quite a bit of lunch potential.
Interesting location, nice staff, beautiful rugs in the lobby. Definitely worth a stay.
But what we really want to know is, did you buy the stereo for sale out front?
Meanwhile the Down by the Hipster blog says that the Bowery's newest sibling, the Lafayette House Hotel is live online and now taking reservations, through email. There's a number listed on the web site which we called and were greeted with this message:
For rooms 1-9, please dial 70 and the room number. For rooms 10-15, please dial 7 and the room number.
You could then leave a message for a property manager which got us confused. Is this a residence or a hotel? Our guess is that it's somewhere in transition.
Either way the rooms look similar to the Bowery in that they are carrying over a Victorian sitting-room feel with "hand-picked antiques and furnishings", 500-thread count sheets, iPod docking stations, free WiFi, flat screens and an added bonus of working fireplaces. That's all we know right now so hit us up on the tipline if you know more.
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· Inside: Lafayette House Hotel [Down by the Hipster]
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