Nightclub owners in Brooklyn have a message for an antifeminist Manhattan lawyer who claims that “ladies’ night” discounts discriminate against men: You’re out of your mind, sir.
After all, bar owners say, ladies’ night discounts are — uh, duh! — designed for men, too. Sure, they may not benefit from reduced prices on booze, but they invariably benefit from the way women behave when they have taken advantage of reduced prices on booze. Read More...
Unrated during the pandemic
Closingone of the city’s best-known dining rooms after 27 years wasn’t the hard decision its fans might think it was. Just ask its owner.
“The Oval Room had run its course,” says Ashok Bajaj of the restaurant situated an easy stroll from the White House. While a roster of talented chefs — Bryan Moscatello, John Melfi, Tony Conte — made sure a stream of VIPs — Nancy Pelosi, Ty Cobb, seemingly every ambassador in town — was fed well over the decades, the twin challenges of the pandemic and the 2020 protests downtown helped seal the fate of the Oval Room. Read More...
Dirk Nowitzki is a retired German-born basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He has played for the Dallas Mavericks after being picked by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1998 NBA Draft.
The 7-foot-tall baller has gone on to shatter and hold multiple all-time Mavericks franchise and association milestones, including being the highest-scoring foreign-born player in NBA history and one of just seven persons in the world to have appeared in at least 20 NBA seasons. Read More...