Recharger The Dog » bars and clubs http://www.rechargerthedog.com Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:41:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 2009 Style Wars http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2009/11/08/503/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2009/11/08/503/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:35:40 +0000 Recharger http://www.rechargerthedog.com/?p=503 wallpaper3Last night at Don Hill’s, the unpretentiously pretentious Soho performance space, the fashion meter jumped so fast, it broke. House of Dieh’s 2009 Style Wars, was so hot we nearly ripped off our Gap jeans and LL Bean overcoat, wrapped ourselves in toilet paper and aluminum foil, and vamped the miniature runway. Indeed, the competition, judged by Jenny Shimizu and other second-tier mini-celeb, burned the runway to a crisp. Baby designers had 4 ½ minutes to dress a model, and they did so with astonishing results. Our faves: the girl with the NBA-sized paper ball on her head, the girl with plastic glasses and cardboard box skirt, the wire-hanger dress, the club’s wallpaper, and the praying mantis mannequin. Least fave: Rob Schneider’s brief, dorky visit in a suede, fur-lined vest. Yeah! ]]> wallpaper3skinny models33 designers

Last night at Don Hill’s, the unpretentiously pretentious Soho performance space, the fashion meter jumped so fast, it broke. House of Dieh’s 2009 Style Wars, was so hot we nearly ripped off our Gap jeans and LL Bean overcoat, wrapped ourselves in toilet paper and aluminum foil, and vamped the miniature runway. The competition, judged by Jenny Shimizu and other second-tier mini-celebs, burned that runway to a crisp. Baby designers had 4 ½ minutes to dress a model, and they did so with astonishing results.

Our faves: the girl with the NBA-sized paper ball on her head, the girl with plastic glasses and cardboard box skirt, the wire-hanger dress, the club’s wallpaper, and the praying mantis mannequin.

Least fave: Rob Schneider’s brief, dorky visit in a suede, fur-lined vest.

Yeah!

]]> http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2009/11/08/503/feed/ 0 Best Bar for a Secret Affair http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/02/06/best-bar-for-a-secret-affair/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/02/06/best-bar-for-a-secret-affair/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:18 +0000 Recharger http://rechargerthedog.com/?p=365 Shalel.jpgALTHOUGH WE DISAPPROVE OF THE VERY NOTION OF CHEATING, we couldn’t help noticing that the grottoes and secret rooms (made unbearably sordid by banquettes and plushy pillows and decor worthy of a pasha’s bedroom) of below-street-level Shalel Lounge on 65 West 70th Street are simply perfect for drinking and canoodling with someone who will, guaranteed, ruin your life. Who cares if your indiscretions will embitter your children and their children towards you for ever and ever. Life is short. Go for [...]]]> Shalel.jpgALTHOUGH WE DISAPPROVE OF THE VERY NOTION OF CHEATING, we couldn’t help noticing that the grottoes and secret rooms (made unbearably sordid by banquettes and plushy pillows and decor worthy of a pasha’s bedroom) of below-street-level Shalel Lounge on 65 West 70th Street are simply perfect for drinking and canoodling with someone who will, guaranteed, ruin your life.

Who cares if your indiscretions will embitter your children and their children towards you for ever and ever. Life is short. Go for it.

]]> http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/02/06/best-bar-for-a-secret-affair/feed/ 0 Chockful O’ Feng Shui http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/01/15/chockfull-o-feng-shui/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/01/15/chockfull-o-feng-shui/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:01:27 +0000 Recharger http://rechargerthedog.com/?p=313 deweys flatiron.jpgWe don’t like bars. We don’t particularly like beer. Despite some recent hormonal imbalances, we’re not even sure we like football. Yet tonight we discovered Dewey’s Flatiron, a sports bar chockfull o’ feng shui — the kind that makes you feel all warm and chicken soupy. It didn’t matter that NFL Ken Doll, Tom Brady led the Patriots to yet another post-season victory, eliminating the Cinderella Chargers, or that some of the bar’s intoxicated patrons kept hugging us, even though [...]]]> deweys flatiron.jpgWe don’t like bars. We don’t particularly like beer. Despite some recent hormonal imbalances, we’re not even sure we like football. Yet tonight we discovered Dewey’s Flatiron, a sports bar chockfull o’ feng shui — the kind that makes you feel all warm and chicken soupy. It didn’t matter that NFL Ken Doll, Tom Brady led the Patriots to yet another post-season victory, eliminating the Cinderella Chargers, or that some of the bar’s intoxicated patrons kept hugging us, even though we’d just met, it was still fun. And cheap. Succulent chicken wings only 25 cents/wing. $3.75 beers (ok, Bud, but still worth it), and many, many TV screens and tables and. We could’ve slept there.

Dewey’s Flatiron is at 210 Fifth Avenue, a block north of 23rd Street.

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