Good morning. Hope everyone is having a nice Friday. I woke up in a bad mood but that could change at any point.
Reminder that the Feed Me Job Board is here (if you want to add one, email emily@readfeedme.com) and I still want your fucked up bachelorette party stories.
NEWS:
Daily Beast reporters aren't thrilled with new boss Joanna Cole's story ideas, including:
A list of “the five most obese members of Congress.”
“Is Protesting the New Sex for Gen Z?”
Are the campus protests astroturfed?
For what it’s worth, I’d read one of those…
Nobu will have 80 hotels in the next 5 years, “easily.” They haven’t closed any hotels or restaurants in over three decades, Trevor Horwell, CEO of Nobu Hospitality, told Skift. “Even after 30 years, the brand continuously brings in a consistent customer pool, and the typical percentage of non-guests driving the revenue at the restaurant at a Nobu Hotel is between 70% and 80%,” I’ve only been to the Nobu Hotel in Miami and I got a bad vibe, but maybe it’s better. I always forget that Robert DeNiro co-founded Nobu. That guy loves hospitality – I see him at The Greenwich Hotel (which he owns) all the time. Eater did a great history of the partnership in 2017, and maybe we’ll get a movie about it one day.
An orangutan is the 1st wild animal to be seen treating an injury with a medicinal plant. This made me cry, we don’t deserve these beautiful animals.
Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine. Nuts! It’s the first time the number has been confirmed, and marks an increase from the $18 billion reportedly paid in 2021. The filing also shows that Google’s 2020 payments were 17.5% of Apple's operating income.
A few days ago, BlackRock sent an unusual message to thousands of clients: “Your fund is under attack.” The attacker: Boaz Weinstein, the sharp-elbowed Wall Street money manager who says price distortions in funds run by BlackRock and others are cheating investors out of billions of dollars, and they need to be eliminated. Weinstein says BlackRock is not only trapping shareholders in underperforming products, but also failing to meet basic governance standards by stymieing his efforts to elect new directors.
Getting war flashbacks with the news that Lucy’s is re-opening. Jon Neidich’s hospitality group, Golden Age (Le Dive, the Nines, Deux Chats), has applied for a liquor license to take over Lucy’s bar space. The beauty of Lucy’s was that it was cheap as hell and cash only, but Le Dive’s cheapest glass of wine is $15 so I’ll keep my hopes low.
Where’s my big oil deal?
Substack is indeed taking over the world. The newsletter company that you’re reading this on right now is starting to sponsor very fun, very IRL parties with New York’s favorite nightlife scene (good job
).I’m hearing rumors that Blank Street Coffee is in big trouble…. They keep closing locations in New York and Boston.
I’d like to make out in Sofia Coppola’s new lipsticks. The colors look like that’s what they’re made for. I ordered Shade 3.
Ozempic + the naked dress = internet virality. Nobody can look away from the naked dress, which can often look like a fishing net or a crystal mesh. Each movie premiere, awards show, and gala outdoes the last, as if every event is strip poker played with transparent bolts of tulle. “This is all an attention game,” says Kate Young, a stylist who works with Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Dakota Johnson, among others. “You want as much press for your movie as you can get. And this is how you get it.” This is my version:
You have a few weeks to buy a $6.3mm restaurant in Montauk. I texted my friend who lives out there who described the current restaurant, Sel Rose, as “Not worth $6mm, overpriced bad food, and always in trouble with the town.”
Now this is a wild Friday read. Brock interviewed Honor Levy, the controversial once-princess of Dimes Square, for The Cut. The interview includes fondness for slurs, getting fucked in the head-pussy, and the question of if New York is really the center of the universe.
New Yorkers have more luxury fitness options than ever. For $10,000/month, they can join Continuum Club which will be capped at 250 members. Amenities include float tanks, cold plunges, Himalayan salt saunas, IV stations, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and more. Sky Ting’s new spa services include $120/hour cold plunges and saunas, and $100/hour saunas – you get complimentary tea with both.
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Can't say I'm upset about Blank Street's demise. Utterly charmless IMO