You’ve heard the fuss about Juliet and you’ve seen the photos from the kinky Wednesday parties.

Now Zack Dugow is giving you the chance to have dinner and drinks at this OuCh hot spot. Peep the details.MONDAY @ JULIET
539 W 21st St @ 10th Ave

Come to Juliet this monday for some great house, hip hop, and electro. I will have complimentary Vodka and Champagne at my table for all of my guests. Juliet is one of NYC’s hottest clubs recently opened by the owners of Greenhouse, so ladies and gents, dress to impress….

Also, in addition to all of that, I will be hosting a special free complimentary DINNER at JULIET at 9:30. Please text me if you would like to join.

Zack Dugow
President. RedRush Entertainment
Cell: 305-519-8432
PIN: 30BE58F9

Last night, Thrillist threw a Superbowl Bash at the Bentley Hotel featuring ABSOLUT® Vodka. We weren’t there, and you probably weren’t either, so feel free to stalk the gallery and check out the booze, apps, and live band you missed.

[All photos courtesy of Suneel Norton for Thrillist]

One show I am very excited to see is the Fall/Winter collection from Toni Francesc. The show is not until February 16th, but as usual, ChiChi212.com has a sneak peak for you.

To enter, send an email to RSVP@chichi212.com with the subject “Fat Bitch.” Two lucky readers will be chosen at random and each will win a pair of tickets. Contest ends at 11:59 pm tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

Alexis Monceaux (far left) and guests at a private dinner party

Why it is Alexis Monceaux. The Parisian-born and Berkeley educated Euro-trash hater will be hosting a dinner social series named “Le Nuit en Rose” at the renowned bohemian French Bistrot Pink Pony.

There will be a fifty-four person guestlist hand picked by Alexis and his co-host, model and actress Maud Yeddou. After having her personal items stolen while out and about, Maud feel this series will provide “a more amicable and trusting atmosphere for an evening among friends.”

Alexis describes the experience as “a modern day salon in the Lower East side… [that] will provide a platform for educated conversation and times for laughter, reveling music, and times we will never forget.”

For those of you DYING to attend this dinner Par-tayh (that’s french for party), it will be held bi-monthly and RSVPs are invitation-only. The first one will take place this Wednesday, so if you don’t already have your invitation, chances are it’s not coming. Sigh.

To hear and learn more about J-Stizzie, visit Jstizzie.com and YouTube.

(Editor’s note: Why do I feel like these are the new songs DJs are going to RUN TO DEATH?)

Well Kim did have a party to celebrate her new perfume, only it was in Miami, you know, where her boyfriend Reggie Bush was about to play the biggest game of his life.

She fired back with not one, but two tweets about the mess saying: “I am NOT hosting a party tonight in NYC at a club called Touch! Its the night before SUPERBOWL!!!! U think I would leave my man? Come on!” and “Its so wrong when people use your name and picture on flyers! Don’t u know that’s against the law!!! False promotion!“

Apparently Kim will miss watching Reggie play a regular game for a photo shoot, but wouldn’t dare leave her man as he is getting ready for the Superbowl.

You do what you need to do to get that ring honey!

Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 is here. Although the festivities in the Bryant Park Tents do not begin until Thursday, there are a bunch of designers getting in on the action early. Subscribe to our feed, follow us on twitter and keep checking back here as we take on one of the craziest weeks in fashion!

Did you know: The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world’s first organized fashion week. Held in 1943, the event was designed to attract attention away from French fashion during World War II, when fashion industry insiders were unable to travel to Paris to see French fashion shows. [Wikipedia]

All Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Coverage

STYLE360 – SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, February 13^th

9pm: Joonbug.com party with the cast of Ugly Betty

Monday February 15^th

6pm-8pm: bebe Launch Party

Tuesday, February 16^th

10am: bebe Kardashians Fall Fashion Collection

3pm: Walter Fall Fashion Collection

7pm-8pm, show at 7:45pm: Clandestine Industries by Pete Wentz

9pm- Clandestine Industries by Pete Wentz After Party

Wednesday, February 17^th

12:30pm:  Emu – Fall Fashion Collection

4pm:  Malan Breton Fall Fashion Collection

This is going to be one series of events that will be full of fashion, celebrities and surprises. Bookmark ChiCh212.com so you don’t miss any of the action!

When Grub Street said this meeting was going to be doozy, I knew I needed to attend. So along with Kristina Marino from The Downtown Diaries, we schlepped over to P.S. 20 in the LES. Let me tell you: people, especially old people, HATE nightlife.

They also made some of the most asinine comments I have ever heard, even from some of my readers. So instead of boring you with the details of the LONGEST MEETING I HAVE EVER ATTENDED, I will give you the nitty-gritty along with some of the more colorful comments.

• In attendance:
  • SLA Chairman Dennis Rosen
  • SLA Deputy CEO Michael Jones
  • SLA Licensing Director Kerry O’Brien
  • NY State Senator Daniel Squadron
  • Darin Rubell and Josh Boyd (Ella, Gallery Bar and the soon-to-open Blind Barber)
  • Scott Sartiano and Matthew Rosen (owner and manager, respectively, of 1Oak.)
  • Ariel Palitz of  Sutra
  • and  a guy who I’m pretty sure was Scott Solish.
• Key issues:
  • Good operators v. bad operators
  • zoning (500 foot rule, transfers, beer and wine licenses v. full licenses)
  • effective policing
  • smoking ban
  • cabaret units in police precincts.
• Thoughts/quotes from the residents:
  • On certain blocks there are TOO many bars/restaurants/clubs.
  • Stumble Bum is out of control (that’s the band that randomly takes over places and plays music)
  • Hotels are becoming a loophole to add more restaurants/bars/clubs to a block.
  • “Maybe the smoking ban should be repealed to keep people out of the street.” (SLA’s response: “that is an issue to take up with the mayor.”
  • “I live on the fifth floor and I can’t even hear what my wife is saying.”
  • “I’m the one who has to clean up the vomit and urine outside of my door.”
  • “Talk to me when you have to clean up the beer and pizza someone threw up on your steps.)
  • “I’m tired of flooding the 311 call logs.”
  • “Isn’t it possible to run a restaurant without a liquor license?”
• Thoughts/quotes from the owners:
  • There is a couple who has spent over $400,000 in rent while they wait to find out if their application has been approved. It’s been 11 months.
  • Residents are moving into neighborhoods that are deemed “cool or hot” because there are a lot of nightclubs and then they complain about the noise. (Residents of the Caledonia in OuCh/Outer Chelsea)
  • Small shop owners and 24 hour shop owners depend on nightlife traffic. These patrons keep their stores in business.
  • “Manhattan is not Brooklyn, it’s not the suburbs, it’s not New Jersey and it’s not Staten Island.”
  • “What would happen if everyone closed up and left?”
  • “You’re complaining about professional twenty-somethings on your corner. Would you rather it go back to being gang members and drug dealers?”
  • “What would you rather clean up? Vomit or blood?”
  • “This is AMERICA. We have freedom to congregate. Isn’t that why your parents moved here?”
  • “People love Manhattan because it has a pulse. We are that pulse.”

There are a LOT of people fighting to rid their communities of nightlife venues and they win. Often. Hell, we’ve seen them win twice in a very short period of time (R.I.P. Beatrice and Jane) but if they get their way, it will be much more difficult to open a new space, especially if that address has been denied a license in the past, it will take much longer to get a license, and venues will be closing up left and right.

For most people who read this blog, including myself, nightlife pays the bills. It’s very easy to read about these occurrences. But when you see their unity and their anger, you realize that they mean business and stand a fighting chance. So do yourself a favor and attend the next one of these meetings. You don’t want to go back to a office job do you?

P.S. And nightlife blogs should do their part. This means NOT creating lists of the best places to smoke indoors or drink underage. I understand we are reporters, but at the end of the day, you really need to know which side you’re on. I love nightlife and will always support the owners and managers who are breaking their necks so that I can have things to write about. Even Scott Sartiano and Richie Akiva