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PETER DAVIS
After Hours 2010: The Triumphant Return of Nightlife
“Lucy Sykes Rellie’s birthday party at Park Avenue Tavern: 120 friends reveling in unpretentious conviviality. Everyone we know came. So many hot pregnant women, from Sara Costello to Gretchen Mol to Claude Davies. I love hot pregnant women. Lucy glowed; she looked radiant in Ann Taylor and sparkly Christian Louboutins. We filled the tables and the back room and some of us had to eat, or rather drink cocktails, at the bar. Lucy called it ‘the 40th birthday party I never had’—a bit melodramatic since she was only turning 41. I can’t remember enjoying a party more.” —Euan Rellie Ya z He rn án dez
“My favorite night of 2010 occurred at The Box. After a very solid hour of rubbing shoulders with the chicest transvestites, dancing freely atop the stage and making the fantastically embarrassing mistake of asking Jude Law if his name was Peter, The Box decided to bring out what can only be described as one of the best and worst ideas to put in the center of a dance floor: a trampoline complete with loads of pillows. Needless to say, alcohol plus gravity-defying objects plus things being thrown at your head doesn’t always equal the best idea. However, waking up with a large bump on my head and a ripped Cavalli dress was absolutely worth the fun of jumping on that trampoline and dancing to MGMT while whacking my friends with pillows for hours.” —Alexa Winner
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Alexa Winner Emilie Ghilaga
“Off the top of my gay, nearly-bald head I would have to say the night that jumps out as my favorite party would be the re-
opening of the Boom Boom Room. I love New York and I really love the people who go out at night—not necessarily celebrities or the people you only see on special occasions, but the people who really love to go out and who make New York fun every night. People like Bonnie Morrison, Euan Rellie, Joey Jalleo and such. Everyone was just having an amazing time and was so excited to be in the most gorgeous room in the city. People kept saying it was like a high school reunion. I said, ‘It’s like a reunion, except that it’s fun and I love all the people!’” —Mickey Boardman “It was one of those perfect late mid-summer nights and Charlotte Bocly and I, on my mother’s suggestion, went to the Parrish Art Museum party in Southampton. It was a beautiful party, all white, yet very natural. They incorporated a tree, which was an obstacle, in the middle of the tent, right next to the dance floor, by cutting a hole in the top of the tent and letting the tree out. It looked like a weird, modern, space-age forest. Whenever I go out to any party, it is all about the dancing for me. I lose myself in the thrill of it all, and the best way I can express my appreciation is by dancing. Sounds a bit tribal, I know, but it keeps the energy flowing.” —Emilie Ghilaga “Love Heals at Luna Farm in July in Sagaponack. Co-hosts Peter Davis and stylist extraordinaire Mary Alice Stephenson infused the night with glamour. This annual event features the yummiest meal of summer: barbecue ribs, pulled pork and chicken slow-cooked by southerner DeForrest Gibbs in his
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fter taking a long disco nap, Manhattan’s night world returned with a glitzy, glamorous, big bang as clubs like The Boom Boom Room, The Box, Le Bain, Bunker, Kenmare, Bedlam, Avenue and Lavo lured people away from reality T.V. reruns (sorry Snooki) and back to the dance floor. We checked in with some of our favorite disco denizens to find out their most memorable, strobe-lit, behind the velvet ropes, party moments.