'Raunchy, Yet Classy'

cityfile · 02/03/09 05:38PM

Many thanks to AdWeek's AdFreak blog for directing our attention to this new advertising campaign for Face to Face NYC, a day spa on West 20th Street. This ad here is one of a handful the company is now running in publications like HX, Genre, and Time Out New York. Face to Face describes the campaign as "raunchy, yet classy." (By the same logic, anal bleaching may be "all the rage," or just really popular with muscular "knot experts" named Sandor—you decide.) But you do have to give the spa some credit for not, er, beating around the bush. [AdFreak]

Bernie Madoff's Monochromatic Lair of Evil Revealed

Owen Thomas · 02/03/09 04:55PM

Is the greatest Ponzi schemer in history a bit obsessive-compulsive? From former employees, whispers of his quirks and predilections are emerging. And now, for the first time, we have a look at his offices.

Details Moving Into Nicer, Unlucky Offices

Hamilton Nolan · 02/03/09 04:31PM

The good news: Details staffers were just told that they're moving out of their second class offices on Third Avenue into the big time, Conde Nast headquarters at 4 Times Square! The bad news:

The TV Pilots the Networks Bought

Richard Lawson · 02/03/09 03:52PM

We've received an unofficial list of the TV pilots the broadcast networks have ordered for next season. Boldly Going Nowhere and Mitch Hurwitz's project sound promising; David E. Kelley can't make anything but legal dramas.

Eating & Drinking: Tuesday Edition

cityfile · 02/03/09 03:28PM

• A day after the city asked for bids on the Tavern on the Green space comes word the restaurant's been sued for failing to pay its meat supplier. [Eater]
• Soho's much-maligned Delicatessen has a new menu courtesy of its new consultants, club owner David Rabin and chef Franklin Becker. [GS]
• Embattled Soho eatery Lola shutdown last Friday. [NYO]
• Joe Bastianich is hoping to plant Eataly, a 60,000-square-foot Italian food market, in a space "between Union Square and Madison Square Park." [NYT]
• Philippe's expansion continues: The chain plans to set up an LA location. [P6]
• It looks like the end is near for the Hawaiian Tropic Zone. [TFB]
• Legendary Union Square veggie peeler Joe Ades has died. [NYT]

'Idol' Won't Fear The 'Reaper'

Seth Abramovitch · 02/03/09 03:10PM

· Reaper Season Two will begin earlier than expected: It airs Tuesdays at 8, where it will fend off the Idol dragon, while princess 90210 is shuffled off to the safety of 9 p.m. [THR]

Sleazeballs, Anyone?

cityfile · 02/03/09 03:06PM

Here's a way to help out a victim of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme and amuse elderly Jewish men on the golf course in Palm Beach at the same time. You can now pick up golf balls with Madoff's mug on them. They're named "Sleezeballs," of course and, yes, we're totally buying a box to send to Walter Noel when his birthday rolls around in June. [Dealbreaker]