New York Nights Offers Connections for Valentine’s Day

Our final article in the Technology Issue is the announcement of a new social network dedicated to nightlife.

We would like to offer our readers a Valentine’s Day gift.

You are cordially invited to be one of the first to discover the hidden treasure in Connections!

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Superbowl Bars, Powerful Fans and Ticket Wars...

Nightlife News for January 29th 2008
By Gamal Hennessy

Music
Bands and Fans Go Around Music Companies
(Yinka Adegoke: Reuters)
The changes in the music industry are well documented. CD sales are down because of the rise of online music stores and file sharing. Major artists are jumping ship, looking for a better deal in the age of digital music. 360 deals are gaining prominence, giving labels access to merchandise and ticket sales in addition to CD sales. Now websites are giving fans the option to fund and support their favorite bands directly.

Super Bowl
Bars Will Win Before the Game is Over
(Scott Goldstein & Thomas Gaudio: NJBiz.com)
Different industries have different peak seasons. For retail chains, it’s Christmas. For accountants, it’s tax season. For nightclubs, it’s New Year’s Eve. For bars, especially sports bars, it’s major events like March Madness and the World Series. But the one event that might score the biggest night for bars is the Super Bowl. This year the Giants have clawed their way to the big game. That means bar business this year will be huge.

Tickets
Live Nation Set to Take on Ticketmaster
Michele Gershberg: Reuters
Ticketmaster has been the main source of tickets for the past several years. But like the music industry, the internet has disrupted their business model. Stub Hub, and Ebay have already built up a considerable secondary ticket market. In 2009 Live Nation will start to compete in the primary sale of tickets.

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The Connection between Social Networks and Club Life

By Gamal Hennessy

The second article in the Technology issue looks at the link between networks and club life

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Club Report for January 24th (Avalon, Cielo and Crobar)

Read this week’s club report and find out what happened to Avalon, what will happen to Crobar and how to get paid for drinking…only from New York Nights

Expensive Wine, Sean Paul Seizures and Smoking Drugs…

Nightlife News for January 23rd 2008
Drinking
Expensive Wine Equals Better Tasting Wine
(Tom Randall: Bloomberg.com)
In a recent study conducted by the California Institute of Technology volunteers were asked to rate the taste of wines. Each taster was told the price of each bottle before they started sipping. In 80% of the cases, the tasters chose the more expensive wines as the better tasting wines. The only problem was that the prices were wrong. People weren’t choosing based on quality, they were choosing based on perception.

Health
When Music is Bad for Your Health
(Kirk Fernandez: ABC News)
Stacey Gayle has a special relationship to Sean Paul’s popular song ‘Temperature’. While the dance hall hit has been known to get people moving, it had a more dramatic effect on Ms. Gayle. She suffered severe epileptic seizures when Temperature or other select songs were played.

Potential Problems Cited in New Anti Smoking Drug
(Press Release)
The benefits associated with quitting smoking are well documented. There are multiple methods a person can use to help them quit. One of those methods is a prescription drug called Chanix. Late last week the makers of Chanix updated the warning label to indicate that Chanix might lead to agitation, depressed mood and suicidal behavior.

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Police Shootings and Sin Taxes (Nightlife News)

Nightlife News for January 15th, 2008

Drinking
The Cost of a Drink Might Be Going Up…
(Joe Mahoney: New York Daily News)
Felix Ortiz, a State Assembly Alcoholism Committee Chairman from Brooklyn, has proposed a new tax on every alcoholic beverage solid in the state. Mr. Ortiz claims that if every drink cost $.25 more, the epidemic of underage drinking can be curtailed.

Smoking
New York Scores High Marks for Tobacco Control…but few are satisfied
(Press Release)
Every year the American Lung Association issues a report card for each state grading them on tobacco prevention, cigarette taxes, smoke free air and your access to smoking products. While the city and the state received high marks in almost every category, and scored the second highest ranking in the country, the ALA’s response was clear. New York needs to do more.

Crime
Sean Bell Trial Possibly Moved
(Michael Wilson: New York Times)
On November 25th 2006, Sean Bell left a Queens strip club called Club Kalua after his bachelor party. During an altercation with police, Mr. Bell’s vehicle was shot 50 times by undercover officers. Mr. Bell was killed and two of his companions were injured. Now lawyers for the police in the case filed a motion last week to have the case moved out of New York because the publicity of the case has tainted the potential jury pool.

Read more on all these stories in the January 15th edition of Nightlife News…only from New York Nights.

Buster’s, Randolph and Bathhouse Rules (Club Report)

This week’s club report has the evolution of Buster’s Garage, a review of Randolph on Broome and an internal city memo about commercial sex establishments.

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Buster’s, Randolph and Bathhouse Rules (Club Report)

This week’s club report has the evolution of Buster’s Garage, a review of Randolph on Broome and an internal city memo about commercial sex establishments.

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The New York Nights CES Report

To kick off our Technology Issue, NYN takes a look at the new gadgets and toys for 2008…

Technology might not be the first thing you think of when you think of nightclubs, but next to alcohol and music, technology might be the most important part of nightlife. This week the Consumer Electronics Show opens in Las Vegas and we’re going to give you a little preview of what’s coming for 2008.

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Nightlife News (Vivitrol, Drunks and 3rd Screen Clubbing)

Technology
NightVision Promises to Bring the Club to Your Cellphone
Press release
Imagine this; you and your friends are thinking about going across town to a club. What if you could see how long the line was, hear the music and check out people in the crowd from your phone. A new service called NightVision is planning to offer this service in New York…for free.

Drinking
Is New York City Full of Drunks?
(Kate Lowenstein: Time Out New York)
According to the Department of Health, fourteen percent of New Yorkers binge drink meaning they have five or more drinks at one sitting. Five percent of New Yorkers are heavy drinkers meaning they have more than two drinks every day. Do you fall into this category? Welcome to the club. Before you hang your head in shame and find out what this is doing to your body, cheer up. The level of binge drinking in the rest of the United States is twenty four percent…

New Treatments for Alcoholism
(Melissa Healy: Los Angeles Times)
If you read the last article and decided you need treatment for alcoholism, your main option is a rehab clinic and a 12 step program to help you stay on the wagon. Many people of the 5.7 million American alcoholics don’t want the stigma associated with this treatment. Only Amy Winehouse turned it into profit by making a song about it. New treatment options might take the process out of rehab and put it in your doctor’s office.

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Nightlife News for January 4, 2008

Nightlife News for January 4, 2008

Health
HIV Cases on the Rise
(Sarah Kershaw: New York Times)
The number of new H.I.V. and AIDS cases has decreased steadily in New York City for the past five years among almost every demographic group. However, the number of young Black and Hispanic men who have contracted the disease is on the rise.

Is Binge Drinking a Recipe for Brain Damage?
(Maia Szalavitz: Sixty Second Science)
Did you drink too much on New Year's Eve? If you did, then we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that there is evidence in the medical community that binge drinking leads to long term brain damage. The good news is that the evidence might be misleading.

Promotion
Working to Throw the Perfect Party
(Melena Ryzik: New York Times)
Organizing a party in New York used to be about mixing exciting energetic people with an interesting venue then adding music and liquor. With the rise of bottle service, promoting a party is more about corporate credit cards, celebrities and perceived exclusivity. Now a set of downtown promoters are trying to throw a party that is more fun and less finance.

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