It can safely be assumed that nearly every building along Hollywood Boulevard has been turned into some kind of hot, celebrity-populated nightlife spot -- and yet, here’s another! Muse Lifestyle Group (of Ivar, Nacional, etc.) has taken over the historic Fox Theatre, and is offering party monsters 13,000 square feet of rollicking room, amid extravagant interiors by design bigshots I©RAVE (Koi, Pangaea). There will also be an adorably named on-site restaurant, Sweet Love Hangover, with nouveau diner eats and a retro ’60s vibe. As Hollywood hangovers go, here they’ll be more inspired by Cuervo than by Cupid.

Michael Ault, owner of the Pangaea clubs in Austin and elsewhere and the man behind legendary New York clubs like Spy and Chaos, checks in with the scene (New York) where he once reigned.

How did you start in the nightclub business? Growing up in Palm Beach in the 1970s, every night was a party. All the families on the social scene were expected to host large events at their homes, mostly charity balls and large dinners. Both my mother and father's family took this ethos to extreme lengths. So as a child, most of what I recall were large parties, planning, logistics, caterers, florists, car parkers, bands, guest lists, phone books, and fun. No one ever considered them "businesses," because they weren't, but they were extremely complicated productions to produce and promote. To be completely frank with you, I'm not certain that I was ever really a component of the nightclub business. In many ways, the concept of a business and "party" are often mutually exclusive. If you're concentrating on the business, you'll often lose sight of the party. And naturally the reverse is invariably true. But to answer your question, my first clubs as an owner were Merc Bar and Surf Club.