Forbes checks in with hotel developer Sam Chang, who's not going to let a little financing meltdown and $50 million loss in Trump Entertainment Resorts stop him from opening up 20 new hotels in the next 20 months. The McSam boss misses the days of the sliver hotels that made him rich ("That 18-feet-...

And we'd like to welcome New York critic Adam Platt to the ring: "At new joint. Wine Geek ball busting the sommelier on Portugese varietal's. God help us." [Twitter]...

When Mission Mission noticed earlier today that 988 Valencia, the spot that the ill-fated American Apparel would have lived in, is now up for rent, SF Appeal took the ball and ran with it. "What should fill the AA space?" they ask. The spot is going for $7,500, which jibes with what the AA spokesboy...

The 15-story hotel coming to 942 Mission St will occupy the former headquarters of porn firm Kink.com. There will be a green roof atop the six-story Mission Street front, and it'll be relatively barebones: no restaurant bar or meeting space. Mint Developers plans to get the project moving as soon as...

From the tipline: "Was at the bar at Craft Saturday night (not packed at all)...Jigga Man Jay Z popped in and went right to the private room. Bartender said 2nd time in a couple of weeks hes seen him, he always runs to the back. 1/2 hour later his bubbly butt wife Beyonce came in as well..." Meanwhi...

We can't expect many new skyscrapers to break ground in NYC for a while, so for some rendering porn, we head to...Boston ? Check out One Congress Street, a four-million-square-foot office/residential/retail development designed by Cook + Fox set to enter the public review process. Writes the Archpap...

The Bruni knows tipping is a cause for endless debate on the blogs, but he wants to make one thing very clear: whether or not you approve of the system in the U.S., you better damn well play by its rules: "Until that system is changed, skimping on the tip...is a cheat of sorts: it’s a violatio...

In a post about the J-Church line from new-ish blog noe valley *buzz*, the writers bust their keen anthropological skillz out on their fellow commuters: "the gaggle of middle skool kids (early diabetes) who are definitely having pre-marital relations (oral), 30-something hipsters who left the missio...

It seems the Nets are really pushing this "Robo-Tripping Tuesdays" promotion pretty hard. First 1,000 ticket holders get to watch Nets basketball then FREAK THE FUCK OUT. [YouTube]...

With Harlem's Riverton Houses entering foreclosure proceedings—and Tishman Speyer talking to its partners about raising capital to stave off a default at Stuyvesant Town—the Times looks at what a failed megadeal means for the tenants already in place. Pluses: "[Tenants] still enjoy the ben...