I'm dubbing this past week "The calm before the storm."  Because although we had enough going on to keep our little guests of guests busy, this week (NYC Fashion Week, AND Social Media Week) is going to be sheer insanity.  Thankfully, I've been preparing myself with emergen-c drinks all weekend. A look back....

• Our favorite nightlife king, uncle Steve Lewis celebrated his birthday at Greenhouse.  Loads of young women flocked the nightclub to toast the legend, along with listen to his skills on the turntables. [Steve Lewis' Birthday Celebration]
• Speaking of Birthdays, a much younger nightlife character, DJ Nick Cohen was born on the exact same day as Steve! [Happy Birthday DJ Nick Cohen!]
• And everyone's favorite financial blogger, John Carney also rang in another big year, with a "Clusterstock" of admirers in the LES. [John Carney's Birthday Celebration] More»

[Merkato 55]

We have a big week ahead of us.  As the world's eyes are all looking towards Washington, and awaiting Mr. Obama as he takes his throne, we will take one more look back on the parties that ensued under Bush.

• We started out the week with a look back on the Golden Globes parties. Specifically, which after party did you want to see and be seen at?
• Webster Hall was all over the internet this week, but it wasn't for it's new walls, designed by Mr. Steve Lewis.  A group of guests have been claiming the club is racist. And they've taken to facebooking their disgust. Is Webster Hall really racist?
• Merkato 55 Brunches are still the hot spot to go and keep warm on snowy Saturday afternoon.
• Socialite Amanda Hearst held her birthday party at Norwood, Scott let us in on the deets. More»

[Winter brunches at Merkato 55]

• We started off our week with the cold realization that our city celebrates the season of winter much more so than Miami does.  We spent half of Monday reliving Art Basel:

[Art Basel Makes For A Perfect Anniversary Party]

[Tommy Hilfiger & Vanity Fair Take Free Arts To Miami]

[The GenArt Party Draws Eclectic Crowd]

[Tory Burch Private Dinner Party at Fountainbleau]

• Including stopping by the newest member of the Miami nightlife, club LIV in Fountainebleau where guests like the Hilton sisters, Russell Simmons and Lenny Kravitz.

• While the weather here is shockingly cold, the brunches at Merkato 55 are just heating up.  This party is unlike anything you've ever experienced.  Let Derek and Daniel help rid you of your winter blues

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The week after the big Thanksgiving holiday, and we realize we have a lot to be thankful for.  Sure, there is a huge recession hanging over our heads, making for a greyish "Black Friday", but in a city that never sleeps, there is always a good party every night, recession or not.

• We started out the week recapping the big Thanksgiving Eve bash hosted by Lydia Hearst at Lucky Strike Lanes.  We had loads of fun both on the lanes, and at the after party at The Eldridge with Matt Levine and his posse.  On the very same night, guests were toasting Tao on it's 8th year anniversary uptown.  Staying relevant that long in this town is cause for a thankful celebration indeed!

• We uncovered the big story of Mike K., the little analyst that could.  Merrill Lynch by day, Tenjune by night, this guy never stops.  Managing 4 separate facebook accounts and numerous girls, we caught him prepared for both roles with a blackberry in one hand, and a cocktail in the other.

• Speaking of promoters, the only way we found out about Mike K was after receiving his invitation to Britney Spears' Birthday Party at Tenjune on Tuesday.  Which brings us to the most covered event of the week.  She definitely brought quite the circus into town.  Fans toasted the pop star on her new album (and new looks).  Among them? None other than our favorites Kristian and Devorah.

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BRRRRRRR! It's really getting cold in Manhattan.  We always find that the best way to cure your winter time blues is with an all night bing through club land.  And things are just starting to heat up!

The week started off with a big band at the Paper Magazine Nightlife awards at Mansion where we caught up with every major nightlife name in this city. The Crème de la Crème Of NYC Nightlife came out to toast each other and we had so much fun mingling with the friends that we have made over the years.

Our favorite Uncle Stevie (Steve Lewis) found himself on Page Six, a silly little scandal that gave us all a big old laugh.  TEAM STEVE 4 LIFE!

The Koch brothers helped open up the doors to La Prive with sparklers, cake and kisses for everyone!

The recession is definitely here, though it seems to not be affecting everyone.

We took a trip up north to visit our Yalie friends in New Haven, where we discovered that scholastics weren't the only thing the city had to offer.

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[1Oak's Richie Akiva with his girls. Photo by PMc]

Ted Bailey, of Mapcity.com left the following comment on our Media Meshing post from Friday:

"No place like NYC to withstand a depression! — Parties everywhere. — great post and great advice….”when the going get’s tough, all you need to do is party!”

And party we did:

We played at Playhouse with Cain LUXE and checked out the Wednesday night party at Ella.

We caughted up with some real life underage Gossip Girls who were partying away on Shirly Temples (?) They were set out to prove that you can still have drunk makeout sessions without actually being drunk at a mixer hosted by Z100.

Citrine hosted a party for Gradient Magazine and we got another look at the new space.

Olympians Tim and Jason were all over town.  They met the likes of Julianne Moore and Chris Austad at the Hugo Boss awards, and hung out with their old pal Richie Rich at the Cool Vs. Cruel Fashion Competition at the Bowery Hotel.

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