Many of you are very close friends with nightlife kings and queens. Some of you are the royalty of New York and Los Angeles nightlife. So you're probably familiar with Mark Baker, who sits among the Richie Akivas and John McDonalds of the world. Baker is behind spaces like Double Seven and Mansion, where in the former Crobar he has, um, repeated the Crobar mentality: models and bottles. Now, he's got a new haunt: the Cougar Lounge. Opening this fall, Cougar will be an all-girls venue where the ladies can get their hands on sex toys while the all-male serving workforce will be adorned in leather lederhosen serving champagne. And the women will get whips to hit them. Baker reveals autumn's nightspot plans in a new UrbanDaddy interview, which he wraps up by admonishing the "good old days" of New York nightlife, you know, because these are the good old days of nightlife … in 20 years. [Keys to the City/UrbanDaddy]
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News flash to Mark Baker: Under very real discrimination laws in place nationwide, no one–no one–can operate any establishement that excludes an entire gender. In other words, you cannot legally have any public place that is "women only" or "men only." You simply can't–it is against the law. So this place, in the wake of expected lawsuits, would have to admit men, which would ruin the entire concept, which would cause no one to go. Here's a novel idea: What the hell ever happened to normal bars, where anyone and everyone can just go, meet people, have a drink, and have a good time? The era of velvet ropes, "VIP" rooms, over-expensive drinks, cordoned-off areas and other such crap never existed, and should end today. Everyone needs to get back to reality.
This is one of the reasons that New York night life is dead. The above mentioned promoter and the lamed assed bottle service all but destroyed and sense of What New York Night life was all about.
Charles I dissagree, whats wrong with teaching an old dog some new Tricks?