So you want to run into a model. Or ten. Here's your guide to which hotels to stalk for the next week:

1. The Bowery Hotel (East Village) - Corpus is showing here, and there should be a bunch of parties here as well.
2. Plaza Hotel (Midtown West) - With Luca Luca, Monique Lhuiller, and Douglas Hannant, this is a safe bet to catch some fashion royalty.
3. Jane Hotel (West Village) - Cynthia Rowley is showing in the Ballroom. Hopefully the residents won't protest the show.

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.

Jeffrey Chodorow, owner of China Grill, Asia de Cuba, Kobe Club, Ono, and other esteemed global eateries, dishes on Schrager, disses on DiSpirito, then row-row-rows his colorful boat ashore.

Point of Origin: I was born in the Bronx, but my father died the year I was born, so my mother and I moved to Miami. I grew up in Miami Beach, where we lived with her sister. They were both manicurists in a Cuban barbershop, and they used to go to Havana for the weekend -- which, incidentally, is how Asia de Cuba eventually came to be. I opened China Grill because I knew the Asian and Cuban pantry, so it seemed like a natural. I grew up very poor in a very wealthy Miami area where we went through school drills, hiding under our desks during the Cuban missile crisis. Some friends built a bomb shelter in their property which was nicer than our apartment! This was before Castro came in.

He's literally run the gamut from shirtless busboy at Studio 54 (identified in Anthony Haden-Guest's book on the disco as "Pecker 54") to white-tie hotelier to the stars. Richie Notar is a hometown boy made good.

Point of Origin: I was born in Jamaica, Queens. I used to play ball on the Trumps' lawn, and now I know all of them socially. When I was about 15, the owners of Studio 54 -- Ian Schraeger and Steve Rubell -- had a place called Enchanted Garden in Queens, their foray into the club business ... a little-known fact. They wanted to upgrade from guidos to celebrities. A friend asked if I wanted to hang out there with him for, like, $2 an hour, so we were washing dishes! This little guy comes in and says, “What are you doing?” and I said “I'm washing dishes.” And he said, “I like your style, so you should come out and meet the people.” It was Steve Rubell.