Steven Lewis

Limelight church now houses high end Chinese restaurant Jue Lan Club, private dining room named for Peter Gatien

The church that housed Peter Gatien’s iconic NYC’s ’80s/’90s club Limeliight has a few different things since the music stopped. A new club, Avalon, then a high-end mall, called Limelight Marketplace that opened in 2010, and part of the space has been a David Barton Gym since 2014…

Greenpoint club Europa is now the Good Room

A new club called the Good Room is in the process of opening in Greenpoint at 98 Meserole Ave. If that address sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the location of the Brooklyn venue previously and very recently known as Europa…

DJ Mark Kamins remembered tonight at NYC tribute party (KONK reuniting)

The celebration of Mark Kamins’ life and times culminates at Santos Party House tonight. Konk will perform for the first time since 1986…

'Limelight' documentary opens in theaters

Limelight is a documentary about “the rise and fall of New York’s greatest nightclub empire”, or more specifically, about club owner Peter Gatien…

Arthur Weinstein, RIP

Art passed yesterday, after a courageous fight with cancer. Known to everyone with clout in the nightclub industry, Art was a familiar face for a few decades…

Steven Lewis blogs on 100 Lafayette ('the next great club')

Larry Golden of Pianos has partnered with Spencer Sweeney and Andrew W.K. for what an insider friend of mine is calling the next great club. They’ve been trying to get this lower Manhattan (Lafayette Street) venue/club open for about three years now…