Nightlife is a 24-hour job for Sal Imposimato, the regional director of entertainment for the Morgans Hotel Group (which includes the stylish Hudson, Royalton, Morgans, and Mondrian Soho hotels), who's in charge of all nightlife programming.
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Upon rising at the new Mondrian SoHo in New York City, your morning will start off like any other: Yawn. Stretch. Reach for iPad. Perhaps the latter hasn't been part of your regular routine, per se, but after enjoying in-room technology that allows you to coordinate transportation, check flights, order room service, look at New York through the eyes of a local, make dinner reservations, and make housekeeping requests at the touch of a Steve Jobs-designed screen, how could you ever go back?
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So you want to run into a model. Or ten. Here's your guide to which hotels to stalk for the next week:
As in, they dropped it, yo -- then they had to, well, drop it. The Morgans Hotel group, with properties in New York and Miami et cetera, allegedly was not allowed to place big ol' "Fuck the Recession" ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Gay wedding announcements are one thing, fellows, but let's keep the advertising pages sophisticated, all right? (So, what's the opposite of viral advertising? Retroviral advertising?) After the jump, the ad campaign's "memo to the recession," which also ends with an eff.
The Mondrian South Beach, set to open December 1, is adding another feature to its roster: Tivo. The Mondrian opted for the deluxe Tivo package so guests will be able to record two shows while watching a third. If this pilot Tivo program goes well, look for the Tivo at all the Morgans Group Hotels, which include: New York's Morgans Hotel, the Royalton, Hudson Hotel; Miami's Delano, The Shore Club; Los Angeles' Mondrian; San Francisco's Clift Hotel; Scottsdale's Mondrian, Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel, and London's St. Martin's Lane and the Sanderson. All the more reason to order room service.
