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Nightlife Says Farewell to Volume
So I was supposed to go to Linguini Fini for the media dinner the day I came back from the UK. I made the mistake of taking a power nap at 4:30pm, and expectedly fell into a coma until the next morning. It wasn’t just jet lag per se, as I was basically nocturnal in London, but in essence I...
published: Jul 21 2011 - 6:37pm
Nightlife in Yorkshire and London
I’m writing this week’s column sitting outside in the crisp, breezy London air at Sacred Café on Ganton Street just off commercial Carnaby. According to Time Out London, it’s “The Place for Coffee Worship,” which is what I hastily needed on this hungover Sunday...
published: Jul 14 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife is Pagan Goddess Worship
The First of July has turned out to be quite a movement in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. It’s a day when the citizens of our scintillating city actually get up from their politically apathetic asses and walk the big walk to give voice to the voiceless. Originally led by the Civil Human...
published: Jul 7 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife Sings for his Supper—Again
Last Wednesday Time Out Hong Kong gave all Idol wannabes the premier Open Mic Night at the swellegant Salon de Ning. Yes, it was done in classy Peninsula style, but real and unplugged, with a live backup band. The statuesque Penin PR Olivia emailed me: “We’re now full...
published: Jun 30 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife’s Week of Tiki
The Landmark Mandarin Oriental’s annual MASTERS of MIXOLOGY extravaganza began with a cocktail pairing dinner up in The Shell (that’s the little room on top of the stairs at MO Bar) last Tuesday. Food journos were fortifying their stomachs with animal fat before the meal, including me,...
published: Jun 23 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife’s DJ Etiquette
Apparently I was UNfashionably late for “A Royal Dinner” at FINDS last week (Hello? just 30 minutes!) and consequently, 30 other starving members of the press were waiting for my precious late ass to arrive. I must apologize for my insolence. How absolutely unbearable it must have been...
published: Jun 16 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife Started Tapas on Tipsy Tuesday
I endeavored to have tapas every day this week because two of my friends have gone to Spain without me. Gigi left for Barcelona again, while Clarence followed an amigo (supposedly an expert on Spain) to Benidorm, the culo of España. He WhatsApp’ed me at their first stop: “OMG 99...
published: Jun 9 2011 - 7:54pm
Nightlife is Art and Acupuncture
Oh my Lord, has it been a year already? It seems just like yesterday when I wrote about Vernissage. Google “Nightlife installs himself at the Art Fair” and read last year’s dare-I-say hilarious column on the HK Mag website. Well, this year, nobody asked me “What are you...
published: Jun 2 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife Starts Early, like, at, uh 4pm
I was finishing up last week’s Tory Burch column to get to a cocktail tasting hosted by Mark Jenner at grand old Mandarin Oriental’s M Bar last Tuesday 3pm. Bacchanologist Mark Jenner was going to be crafting a series of exclusive cocktails using No. 3 London Dry Gin and The King...
published: May 26 2011 - 11:00pm
Nightlife at Tory Burch
The fashion crowd was abuzz about the Tory Burch fashion show and party at the Four Seasons ballroom last Friday. As much as we love the big annual LV, Gucci, YSL and CD parties, Tory Burch was a breath of fresh fashion air to Hong Kong’s predictable calendar. And while Tory is now a global...
published: May 19 2011 - 11:00pm