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Antwan was all over town last night. After hitting up the Kenneth Cole event, he headed down to TenJune where the Collective Consciousness event was going on. Natalie Morales of NBC\’s Today Show toasted a packed house of NYC. Here was GofG\’s recap of the event, straight from the horses mouth (Antwan):

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In late August, we started hearing rumors of the TenJune boys looking into buying up the newly “on-the-market” Lotus in meatpacking…Yesterday, the deal was confirmed. Mark Birbaum and Eugene Remm (pictured above), our favorite little birthday buddy duo are taking over Lotus, and thus adding on to their Meatpacking playgrounds collection. David Rabin, and the team behind Lotus, the club that made the area six years ago are officially giving up their reigns and will focus on other projects such as their newly opened Mexican restuarant, Los Dados and the re-opening of their more exlusive joint The Double Seven. We are curious to hear how Richie Rich and Amanda Lepore feel about the change of owners, as they are practically the only ones still throwing parties there. In an article published November 1st this month in AMNY titled “Down Days for NYC Nightlife”, David Rabin made the following statement:

“There are a lot of reasons why the days of Studio 54 and other great clubs of the ’70s are not here anymore, for one thing, crowds have become much more self-separating. When I first started gong out in the late ’70s and early ’80s, everyone was under the same roof. Straight, gay, black, white, male, female, it was awesome.”

Today, money wins out over creativity in every case. I mean this is old, old news. And, in a way, Rabin has himself to partially blame. Lotus was one of the first clubs to offer Bottleservice, which was a huge catalyst in this change from an ecclectic mixed crowd, to models and their banker boyfriends. With the torch being officially handed down to the new kids on the block, this guarantees another season of fresh guidos in meatpacking. Happy spotting.

Line to get inside Pink Elephant, Southampton, Saturday night:

And the winlner for this weekend’s best night spot in the Hamptons goes to Pink Elephant. Even without the redesign new fish hanging from the celing (the work of designer Steve Lewis), without the celebrity girlfriends hanging off of the owner’s arms (Heather Graham has been dating Charles Ferri the co-owner of Star Room since last summer), and without the famous gatekeepers like Rich Thomas at the door, Pink manages to win our vote for best spot and here’s why:

The crowd was the hottest, the music made us want to boogie, and the infamous “scent machine” was in full effect:

Mark Birnbaum, Richie Akiva (owner of Butter), Eugene Remm (owner of TenJune along with Mark).

…is not Tinsley Mortimer (who’s ringlets and smirk are beyond passé), Amy Sacco; (the “Queen of the New York night scene” has finally lost her reign, well at least until her hotel opens up in the financial district), or even Hilary Clinton (though at the top of the Post’s “NY’s 50 Most Powerful Women” she doesn’t hold a candle this month to this lady). For the most in-the-know social New Yorkers, Spring 2007 will be remembered as the season of Miriam.

We are only half joking by giving such recognition to the once no-name door girl who is, it seems, at the peak of her career as we post.

Miriam is it.

She is the one who dictates who will and will not be getting into arguably the only place to be partying in the city right now, the little establishment on Chrystie and Rivington that is trying to save us all from the FUNK of a mess created by 27th street/meatpacking….The Box.

Bungalow 8 has had its run, and Tenjune is fun if you’re a spoiled 16 year old at a Colombia prep bday party, but Hammerstein’s Box has proven that if anything is going to help pick us up from being elbow to elbow with B&T scraps it’s going to take a show…and an EXTRAVAGANT one at that. The view from the top floor where the private seating areas are, offer a perfect vantage to take in full the craziness that ensues each night here, as well as an inside look at just how pathetic most celebrities are (and extremely poor tippers).

If you haven’t heard of the place, you have in fact been living in a box…if you have and should opt to try and witness the human oddities and circus acts (both on stage and in the crowd), you will undoubtedly come in contact with Miriam….

There’s one conflicting issue, Miriam is actually…nice. We can’t decide if this makes us more annoyed with her position or not. Sometimes it’s just better to be told “I’m sorry if you don’t have a table, you’re not famous, and you’re not fucking a manager here, don’t even try standing in this line.” This is what we were used to and what we came to expect from doormen named Disco and the like in the beginning. It’s what kept us intrigued, made us want to be inside those doors more than we’ve ever wanted anything else. That kind of rejection felt, well “right”. It made the times we did get in feel so much better, validated our pathetic existences.

Being told in a sweet voice how sorry she was that she couldn’t let us in because of “plumbing issues” one Saturday night after just seeing a crew waltz in 10 minutes earlier kindof made the next Wednesday early morning there a little less special. We like your style Miriam, and your vespa, all we are asking for is to be treated a little more like dirt.

Thanks.