China Club: GROUP SUING MASON, NIGHTCLUB
Three patrons of the China Club are charging in a $54 million lawsuit that they were beaten and injured in the nightclub last summer by Knicks forward Anthony Mason and three club employees. Alice Kupferberg, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said one of her clients was cut under his left eye with a broken champagne bottle, and another, a woman who was celebrating her 30th birthday, was pushed over a table.Kupferberg said the fracas began with arguing, shoving, and hitting at Mason's...
China Club: Colonial design, Maoist motif
CLUB FEAT At the China Club in Capital Tower, you can have a drink at the Long March Bar and eat haute cuisine - if you pay a $15,000 membership fee TAKE a good look at the photographs of the new China Club in Capital Tower because, unless you are prepared to pay a $15,000 membership fee, it is unlikely that you will ever get a chance to visit the real thing. The brainchild of flamboyant Hongkong entrepreneur, Mr David Tang (who was fashionably late for the official...
China Club: WAITING GAME,
PATRONS SAY NIGHTCLUBS KEEP THEM ON OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Standing out in a crowd has never been a problem for Wilt Chamberlain. However, on a recent Monday night in Hollywood, the 7-foot-1-inch former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star stood out for a reason other than his size.Bare-armed and sneaker-footed, Chamberlain strolled down the sidewalk and through the front door of China Club, a popular Southern California nightclub, leapfrogging ahead of about two dozen fashionably attired would-be patrons standing in line. "We do take...
The Star Attraction of Hollywood's China Club
Pop music: Celebrities often play at the late-night hot spot, where everybody--everybody who can get in--is somebody.
The long-haired young man seemed a bit fazed on a recent Monday night when the doorman at Hollywood's China Club wouldn't let him enter the nightclub. After a trip to the side door, the man returned to explain to the doorman that he'd been told he would be allowed in."OK, so what's your name?" asked the doorman, a tall New Yorker in a beige trench coat.The young man paused. "Well . . ....
China Club: HIP-HOP HEAVEN IS HERE
CITY`S NIGHT LIFE TURNS EN VOGUE
Sure, a lot happened in the club scene in 1991: big, snooty affairs at massive new places like China Club and Ka-boom!; a surge for salsa at Cassanova`s and F/X 1100; steamy, narrow dance floors packed with young bodies at The Warehouse; turned-up blues at Fitzgerald`s; and hard-rocking shows at the Thirsty Whale. But some things never change: skirts are still short-but just a tad tighter; light beer is the drink of choice, possibly because of the...
