[June 8, 1970 and January 15, 2007]

Happy 40th Birthday New York Magazine!  It's always fun to reminisce over old magazine covers, remembering the day we were reading them as current news, not memories of our city's past. Below some more of our favorite covers from over the years:

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Ok, time for a little shameless self-promotion. As GofG readers know, in addition to my nightlife exploits, I also have a day gig. I own a photo agency called Artwing . We are a full service photo agency that specializes in fashion, advertising and celebrity. We recently began an exciting collaboration with the newly revamped Interview Magazine. In addition to a full page in the October issue of Interview, we are also co-hosting a masquerade party next month that promises to be one of the best parties of the season. Keep reading here for more details and pick up your October Interview Magazine with James Franco on the cover. Special thanks to Glenn O'Brien, Fabien Baron and especially Susan Kilkenny for making this happen.

Our former contributor, Maddy Madison, has started a website that is sure to keep Leventhal on his feet over at Eater.com:

It's Thursday night, you're hankering for a reliably delicious dinner but want to show your out of town guests something more exotic than the inside of Ray's Pizzeria.  Now you have a solution.  With its insightful, acerbic observations, a new website called New York Knife and Fork is taking an enclave of New York City by storm, one restaurant at a time.  Bringing their equal opportunity taste buds and an adventurous spirit, the folks at New York Knife and Fork have only one mission: to bring you the city's best eats, preferrably on the cheap.  More»

There has been lots of talk around town and "The Internets" about what the financial implosion on Wall Street means for life in the city.  More specifically, we've opined on the uber important issue of a possible end to high-priced bottle service in New York nightclubs, Gawker has followed suit predicting that the end may be nigh for a $450 dollar bottle of Ketel One, and the WSJ has written about other allied industries" fears.  But few in the NYC webosphere have predicted when we might actually hit bottom, or rather how we will know when we've hit it.

Enter Lockhart Steele.  The man, the myth, the founder of the Curbed network, and one of the most powerful people in NY real estate. So what does he have to say about high-priced bottles?  Nothing, he isn't your typical character in clubland. If you want to find him you're better off pulling out your nerd-o-meter and zeroing in on the nearest media party, or maybe even a blogfest he is putting on.  But what does he say about hitting the bottom?

"You will know when we have hit the bottom of this financial crisis the very day when Radar Magazine goes out of business.  And you can quote me on that!"

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Stanley is exhausted from the current financial meltdown. And he has lost a lot of weight. As a result, he needs food. Normally he loves to eat pig ears, however, you can easily nourish his soul by sending in tips. Have something Stanley should know? Share with him by emailing stanley [at] guestofaguest.com, and give a dog a bone. Ruff!

On of our favorite NY Bloggers, Cajun Boy in the City has a new project in the works: "HUGE"

"Huge is a downtown New York show that centers around an on-her-way-out-of-the-business fashion model named Izzy Peck who, on a whim, comes to manage an up and coming rock band."

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[Photo by Emmett Shine]

From: hamptons.guestofaguest.com:

Summer's over when we say its over! And, that is NOT happening yet.  Who isn't feeling completly BEAT from Fashion Week?  This weekend, it's time to forget the designer duds and head back out to the beach.  Don't forget your Tonka Trucks and Goldfish....

Yesterday, while scanning the Post, we came across this little number:"Bubbly Kick" in Richard Johnson's popular "Page Six" section.  Now, don't get me wrong, I love Richy Boy as much as the next guy, but this is a perfect example of how old media is behind the curve.  We wrote about  British billionaire Mike Ashley's rocking night at Pink Elephant SIX days ago!  And that still was after the Sun Online had posted it.  Is Richard Johnson going to join his fellow Mesozoic friends in extinction soon?  Or does he have it in him to start following the blogosphere?

["Best $216K I Ever Spent!"]

[Like moths to a flame. Photo via Patrick McMullan]

Go HERE for more photos from this event by Ben Kaufman

Modern Luxury Media launched their newest publication "Manhattan Magazine" on Tuesday night amongst the tents at Bryant Park's Cellar Bar. This brand spanking new magazine caters to the interests and lifestyle of New York's finest and the September/October fashion and design special devotes over 100 pages to "uptown chic and downtown hip"...sounds like perfection, though hasn't this been done before?

These days, it is increasingly obvious that the only ones wacky enough to launch a print publication based around socialites in Manhattan, or any other area for that matter, must be ego-driven because, otherwise, it. just. don't. make. sense.  Back in June, the Post stated that:

"A new battle for New York is underway, as the well-financed Modern Luxury operation invades the city with a new magazine, to be called Manhattan. Richard Martin, who is currently the editor of Modern Luxury's recently launched Miami magazine, will be heading to New York to be the editor of Manhattan....The launch of Manhattan means that Modern Luxury's battle against Jason Binn, CEO of Niche Media, is going to intensify."

"A new battle for New York"?  What was the old one? Social Life versus Gotham?

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Ok DBTH, we get it.  You're a nightlife blogger.  That being said, you prob shouldn't fashion your site after a smoke-filled whiskey-drenched warren.  There"s a reason why there are "ugly lights" at nightclubs.  It's so you don"t see very well.  Well, the same simply doesn't hold true for a blog.  In fact the very opposite is true!  Yes, we may not exactly want to read what you have to say DBTH, but at least we should be able to see what we don"t want to read.

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Stanley is exhausted from fashion week.  And he has lost a lot of weight.  As a result, he needs food.  Normally he loves to eat pig ears, however, you can easily nourish his soul by sending in tips. Have something Stanley should know?  Share with him by emailing stanley [at] guestofaguest.com, and give a dog a bone.  Ruff!

[Photos by Rob Rich]

These guys probably don't want this photo resurfacing, but hey, that's what we do....provide you with an inner portal to those crazy worlds of night life that you may hopefully never have to experience in large doses.  The Hamptons hot spots are all still open this weekend, however there will be very few people that matter there.  EVERYONE is in the city, embracing fall fashion week, and buying tickets to tables that may be worth something, well at least give them something that they can remember the next day.

More photos from Rob Rich below:

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