I get what Tricia Romano is trying to say in the article (having to pay $300 to hang out with a bunch of douchbags is lame), but honestly she's got to be the worst writer they have at the VV. Almost every article she writes is about the same 20 people doing the same things over and over. Who really cares about Misshapes and those silly clubs on 27th street? I certainly don't know anyone who does. If she was really that cool, she wouldn't be such a name dropper. And let's be honest, would these fashion victims even let her in if she wasn't jerking them off in print every week?

dummy, her job is to name drop!

I also appreciate how she tried to tie in 3rd Ward into an article that might as well have been titled "LES is like soooo much hotter than Chelsea!"
Why do you have to try to elevate you and your friends' parties to the level of art?
You are drinking booze. Somebody is playing music. Just because there is aluminum foil on the wall and the Cobra Snake is there, does not make it art.

Anyway, 3rd Ward is awesome. Hopefully Paul Sevigny will be running it in two years with The Rapture djing it every Thrusday night (sans bottle service).

i truly agree with the first comment. really, all the articles are the same, same people, same things, same trends. and of course the extremes, bottle service -27 th street - 500 dollar bottles- douchebags - britney sounds- and then there is the contrast with the art and music clientele. nightlife is a monkey in new york. i would say the whole thing went downhill after the parties greeks used to throw in the old times with drinking, eating and then throwing up it all, orgies and drinking again. how could you top that. by sitting with your friends on a table and chatting over vodka tonics after seeing a show at the bowery. fuck that, and fuck the 205, the box, williamsburg music hall, fuck the beatrice inn. fuck trends. they change in a week anyways, after this, the new trend should be monkey service, everyone who gets a table should be given a monkey to hang out with. it will be the same price as a bottle, but it is cooler than a bottle because it makes noises and can remind you what you are. hail the monkey service, or you can just stand around and sip from your drink because you are not cool enough and you dont have money, but you can dance your hips to shakira while the man with the monkey service calls you to his table. this is not funny.

"everyone who gets a table should be given a monkey to hang out with."

Awesome.

In her post-event column about last year's Siren fest, Tricia Romano quoted a comment that was posted on brooklynvegan.com. Let's see if she's got the balls to quote any of the comments here!

If you don't like what Tricia writes about, don't read it!

I would just "not read her." I rarely do and have no major qualm with her column (it is what it is). That it was the front page of the Voice and a particularly embarrassing piece of writing was just another mile marker in the long fall down for that once respectable publication, though maybe they outdid themselves again this week with "Candy!!! Bad!". There are thousands of more pressing issues facing our city right now, and equating "taking back the night" with getting rid of bottle service only underscores what a pathetic existence these privileged children lead. Oh, but I forgot. It's art.

Put me down on record for being very much in favor of monkey service.

of course there are more important things to write/read about... that's why you are all reading brooklynvegan which does huge, hard-hitting pieces on corrupt city politicians, right? it's a nightlife trend piece, relax.

The Voice hasn't historically been a blog. The creaks and moans emanating from her rotting corpse have been too much to take lately.

I went to that Hot Chip after show. Home sweet home was ok. Dunno if I would go if Joe, Al and Owen were not there. Those DFA nights look interesting.

Thomas Donohoe argues (passionately) that elitism and exclusiveness is far worse than a little bottle service here http://www.groundreport.com/articles.php?id=217

so much to say, and i've wanted a place to say it, the vegan is about the best in this scene.

some of the comments were a bit vapid (‘don't read her’, and ‘it's her job to name drop’), and i've commented here before on tricia romano's lack of credibility. mostly my perspective comes from the fact that i've enjoyed the alternative music/'indie' music-based bar/club social scene for a long time. had lots of fun, met great people, and long enough and thoroughly enough as a lifestye to have seen alot if it, but not so long and so old that i'm not still a participant.
anyway, some points:

1.
she sucks as far as name dropping because SHE DOES IT WRONG. this reflects her general lack of ability. READ how she drop's names. she highlights ANY name, if it has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, even in the slightest way.
from the day she popped into the city and started writing about the indie 'scene' it was obvious to anyone who was a part of it that she didn't know most of what she was writing.
2.
HER PRIMARY MUSIC INTEREST/LOVE IS TECHNO/HOUSE/HARD HOUSE, whatever... she writes about alt music scene that she only knows because she is a hanger-on. in fact, on several occasions she has mocked many aspects of the music and people that make up the scene.

3.
only a few years ago, the cheesy, mass crowd was going to clubs that may not have been bottle service but were focused on HER MAIN MUSICAL LOVE- TECHNO. she is the problem. there has to be a mainstream, that's ok, what she likes IS IT.
that's hypocrisy number one.

4.
hypocrisy number two, she went on and on, name dropping included about how real the indie scene/clubs/creators are, and she exclaimed how great it was that it was like the current l.e.s expanding. excuse me, but again, as someone who's seen nitelife, let's explain something... the lower east side, even on a weeknite, often resembles a dysfunctional blend of frat party/happy hour after work for a bunch of accountants/prom nite(bottle crowd too). in between all this crap is a small sliver of authenticity, where a small number of people/venues are actually following their creative tastes in alt music. an expansion of all that mess is not good. yes definitely the new clubs ARE a great addition, to the real scene, but she was cheering an expansion of the overdone l.e.s.

which brings us to
5.
exactly what is the point of an art/creative scene based on socializing around alternative, indie music, filled with hipsters, or new-wavers, goths, punks... IF EVERY DAMN PERSON IN THE WORLD IS DOING IT BECAUSE IT'S A FAD??!
HOW IS IT ALTERNATIVE IF IT'S BECOME MAINSTREAM??

just some venting, people, but i think all quite valid. cheers.
drop me an email if u agree, i've found alot of tricia haters out there. ;-)