Travis Kelce’s flirty ex-stripper acting debut on Netflix sparks flurry of job offers from strip clubs: ‘Big Peter and his Banana Splitter’

Travis Kelce’s flirty ex-stripper acting debut on Netflix sparks flurry of job offers from strip clubs: ‘Big Peter and his Banana Splitter’

Travis Kelce’s acting debut was anything but a fumble. The internet went wild after his character in “Grotesquerie” was revealed to have a raunchy past as a male stripper — “jiggling it for horny mamas coming off of cruise ships” in Alaska. Talk about a tight end. Travis Kelce in FX’s “Grotesquerie.” FX Kelce, 35, … Read more

Alvin Ailey at the Whitney, Boucheron on Madison Avenue and more NYC events

Alvin Ailey at the Whitney, Boucheron on Madison Avenue and more NYC events

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.  What’s making our luxury list this week? Boucheron makes its Manhattan debut, goop drops a collection of … Read more

Exclusive | How legendary photographer Dustin Pittman captured vintage New York, from Mick Jagger to Madonna

Exclusive | How legendary photographer Dustin Pittman captured vintage New York, from Mick Jagger to Madonna

Legendary photographer Dustin Pittman was the man shooting the scene in New York in its vintage years in the late ’60s, ’70s and ’80s — from music and fashion icons to Hollywood royalty. And his new book, “Dustin Pittman: New York After Dark,” turns the page back on the golden era. “It was an incredible … Read more

Making a Racquet: Hamptonites’ favorite clubs for tennis, padel and pickleball

Making a Racquet: Hamptonites’ favorite clubs for tennis, padel and pickleball

The 2024 US Open Tennis Championship is upon us. While the professionals are battling it out in Flushing Meadows, Hamptonites will be practicing their moves at a series of new exclusive racquet clubs.  These are not your traditional, run-of-the-mill country clubs. They are chic, social, and all about wellness, both on and off the court. … Read more

Exclusive | NYC’s most unhinged new nightclub is hiding in plain sight — just steps from Billionaire’s Row: ‘I’m crawling around as a poodle’

Exclusive | NYC’s most unhinged new nightclub is hiding in plain sight — just steps from Billionaire’s Row: ‘I’m crawling around as a poodle’

West 57th Street is the new Bushwick. In spring 2023, a historic church around the corner from Columbus Circle reopened its doors as a wildly wacky nightclub described as “a Broadway show, but with house music” — and the neighborhood may never be the same. Seemingly plucked from grungiest Brooklyn and plopped down on the … Read more

Queen of clubs: NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash — and a new book

Queen of clubs: NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash — and a new book

For years, decades even, the biggest VIP in the gay scene of New York nightlife has been a straight, Swiss-born woman. That would be Susanne Bartsch, the legendary club queen who has presided over generations of queer party boys — and other children of the counterculture — in the City That Never Sleeps. “You know, … Read more

Meet 5 savvy New Yorkers who created clubs to cure the concrete jungle’s loneliness curse

Meet 5 savvy New Yorkers who created clubs to cure the concrete jungle’s loneliness curse

When Isabella Epstein moved to the West Village in 2021, no “Sex and the City”-style gaggle of gal pals awaited her arrival.  At 23, the Connecticut girl — new to NYC after snagging a prime investment banker gig — found herself unhappily alone, even approaching random folks on the street in search of companionship.  This past winter, … Read more

I went out drinking with friends — and woke up locked in club’s bathroom the next day

I went out drinking with friends — and woke up locked in club’s bathroom the next day

She’s a real potty animal.   Popping bottles at the club left this partygoer flushed with embarrassment.  “When you go too hard on Saturday night and wake up locked in the nightclub toilets at 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning,” said Eloise Paull, 19, in a trending TikTok tell-all, admitting that she’d drunkenly fallen asleep in the bar’s bathroom.  Viral … Read more

$10,000-per-month Continuum wellness club opens in Greenwich Village

,000-per-month Continuum wellness club opens in Greenwich Village

Want to make gains with the one percent? Add your name to the waiting list for Continuum, the exclusive new $10,000-a-month wellness social club in Greenwich Village. Located in the landmarked Archive building at 676 Greenwich St., the flagship is at once a haute health retreat, luxury lounge and top-of-the-line gym powered by proprietary artificial … Read more

NYC doormen reveal things you should never wear to the club

NYC doormen reveal things you should never wear to the club

There are plenty of dos and don’ts when it comes to going out in New York City. Part of that comes down to what you’re wearing. Doormen and bouncers are constantly trying to cultivate the right vibe inside the club, and to do so, they’re going to judge you based on appearance. Some doormen at … Read more

Australian reality TV star Jaden Laing turned away from posh club over strict tattoo policy: ‘I’m covered up’

Australian reality TV star Jaden Laing turned away from posh club over strict tattoo policy: ‘I’m covered up’

A reality TV star’s cheeky attempt to bypass a Gold Coast pub’s strict tattoo policy has sparked a conversation about whether these rules should still exist in 2024. Jaden Laing, who finished 10th on this year’s season of Survivor, posted a video yesterday on his social media accounts showing him trying to enter the Burleigh … Read more

Exclusive NYC wine club requires a vibe check and $20K to become a member, drink with celebs

Exclusive NYC wine club requires a vibe check and K to become a member, drink with celebs

Great minds drink alike. If you want to savor expensive wine among the likes of LeBron James, Carlos Santana and Danny DeVito — it’s going to cost you. “We’ve had NBA players who, like, had a game the next day, who will stay up ’til 3 a.m., with us just blind-tasting wine and trying to … Read more

Palm Beach’s old guard annoyed by ‘invading Barbies’ snatching up nannies, cosmetic surgery appointments

Palm Beach’s old guard annoyed by ‘invading Barbies’ snatching up nannies, cosmetic surgery appointments

Barbie’s getting snubbed in Palm Beach, too. “Old Palm Beachers snicker as they watch women new to the scene arrive in pink, yes, pink, Rolls-Royces, like a battalion of invading Barbies—a shocking display in a town accustomed to understated wealth,” journalist Daisy Prince wrote last month in a Vanity Fair piece exploring Palm Beach’s “identity … Read more

Who’s in and who’s out? Inside Miami’s booming private club scene

Who’s in and who’s out? Inside Miami’s booming private club scene

You’re lucky to get into Miami’s glitziest bars and restaurants these days. But the city’s real money-movers shun those oversubscribed venues. They spend their days and evenings in exclusive spaces. “I feel the vibe of Miami now is centered on private clubs,” said Alana Oxfeld, who moved to Miami from New York in 2018. She … Read more

Young singles are signing up for running clubs to find dates

Young singles are signing up for running clubs to find dates

Dating can be tricky, but now Aussies are running towards a new way of meeting people. Young people are signing up to local running clubs not just to get their hoofs on the pavement but in an attempt to find love. Ever since the dating app Tinder was launched in 2012, the way people meet … Read more

Here’s the reason this A-lister was turned away from an Australian club

Here’s the reason this A-lister was turned away from an Australian club

Global megastar Pink was denied entry into a Sydney hotspot she had a reservation for because she didn’t bring any identification, according to reports. The So What singer, 44, reportedly visited Manly Skiff Club on Monday evening with a party of around eight people but was turned away at the door. Manly Market Manager Mark … Read more

NYC Wall Streeters are paying $20K a year to smoke cigars and play poker above a Korean restaurant

NYC Wall Streeters are paying K a year to smoke cigars and play poker above a Korean restaurant

Forget about Zero Bond and Casa Cipriani, New York City’s most exclusive private club is a poker spot above a Korean restaurant on East 58th Street. Tony Park, a real estate mogul who owns Anto Korean Steakhouse, wanted an exclusive hideaway where he and his well-heeled friends — mostly finance guys and entrepreneurs — could … Read more

NYC singles are finding love at an unlikely place — quiet pop-up book parties

NYC singles are finding love at an unlikely place — quiet pop-up book parties

Do you comma here often? These pop-up reading parties aren’t just the lit-est social club in New York City, they’ve become a hot spot for singles looking for love. Jacey Adler, 26, was about to give up on finding a match in the Big Apple before she found the man of her dreams at Reading … Read more

Inside the world’s ‘most exclusive’ club you never hear about

Inside the world’s ‘most exclusive’ club you never hear about

One of the world’s most exclusive clubs that we never hear about is exactly what you would think it is. Hidden somewhat in the iconic 3.2km Waikiki Beach stretch, one club captures everything about what it is to be a Hawaiian. It is a mix of paradise, opulence, water sport and Aloha — the term … Read more

Core Club swings open private doors to new members in move to Fifth Avenue hideout

Core Club swings open private doors to new members in move to Fifth Avenue hideout

The Core Club is doubling down on the Big Apple boom in swanky member-only hideouts. The exclusive club — which counts designer Kenneth Cole, Mets owner Steve Cohen and rocker Patty Smyth among its mix of power players — will allow an additional 3,500 members, doubling its current roster, when it reopens its lavish doors … Read more