Let’s All Go Drink Margaritas With The Staff Of OK! Magazine!
Today we received a tip updating us on the shitshow that is the US version of OK! Magazine, and now tonight another tipster has shared more information, including details of a team-building margarita fest at restaurant Dos Caminos tomorrow night!
You may remember last week publisher Lori Burgess emerged victorious in a long-running feud with editor Katie Caperton by firing her and a number of the magazine’s staffers who’d aligned themselves with Caperton, a move that angered many current and former OK! employees. The earlier tipster confirmed the rumours that Jason Oliver Nixon was now running the show at OK!, and now our latest tipster says the whole place is swarming with turmoil and chaos.
Lori’s and Jason’s second issue is not going smoothly at all. Staff has already worked the weekend and at 4 pm today were said to have shipped only a very small number of the pages due at printer by close of business. Seems like it’s going to be another late night. Even worse for Lori and Jason, the issue they closed last Monday (the day of Caperton & co’s send-off), sold nowhere near the preceding issue (which was helmed by Katie Capteron). Katie’s final issue (the Twilight cover) is tracking to sell around 650k, while Lori/Jason’s first issue (Biggest Loser) is tracking to sell less than 400K.
But you have to hand it to Lori Burgess, the lady does know exactly how to boost morale in the workplace…Margaritas!
Lori Burgess is throwing a party tomorrow for OK! staff (though Lori says she won’t attend so as not to “ruin” it for everyone. Like she hasn’t ruined things for them already!). Some staffers say they are going to boycott. Others are thinking “screw Lori, but at least I’ll get some free booze and chips.”
Invite text:
It’s time for a fiesta……..Come celebrate your first issue as a new editorial team!Date: Tuesday, May 19th
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Place: Dos Caminos – 373 Park Avenue South (between 26th & 27th Streets)
Enjoy Margaritas, White & Red Sangria, Sopes, Empanadas & Quesadillas
Free booze and chips?! Hell, we might even show up! Yeehaw!
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@lobstr: But isn't Rick Bayless one of the most respected Mexican food authorities in the US? But then again, Mexican food and Tex-Mex are two different creatures, and I remember ordering nachos at a hotel restaurant in a Chicago suburb (the setting should've been a clue, but I was stuck there) and it was completely flavorless.
@The Cajun Boy: I'll never forget the Cinco Mayo I spent in Chicago where the people I was with was like "hey, we should go have Mexican food!", to which I thought "they have that here??" .. so we went, and to my horror, the salsa was literally as thin as water, enchiladas were burned crunchy -- everything sucked even down to the praline (it was gummy like taffy, hah).. and everyone ate it and loved it none the wiser .. and the weird thing was, all the staff appeared to be Mexican! I guess when you grow up so far from the border, you lose the flava..
Pssh, if you think NYC Mexican food is bad, go and check out your options in New Hampshire. NO ME GUSTA.
(Except for the place I work at, of course)
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@mattchew03:
One more reason to order the classic rocks version, I suppose.
@lobstr: Oh absolutely! What passes for Mexican food in this city is criminal, and as someone who's spent a lot of time in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, it REALLY sucks!
@Smitros:
"As you know . . ."
@The Cajun Boy:
Point taken.
These poor staffers. As you, they'd be better off chugging straight tequila alone in a dimly lit apartment with a hope of halfway decent carryout. (Then again, my aversion to enforced conviviality among co-workers is, in some extremely small circles, legendary.)
@Smitros: I'm gagging just looking at it. And if I had only consumed water today and ended up vomiting into a glass, I'm pretty sure that's what it would look like.
I will be there.
Mexican food in the city.. hurl. It's all runny watery sauces and sub-par greasy shit.. Good Mexican food is one of the great tradeoffs of living in the south/southwest.. (it's all we have!) back me up on this one, Cajun Boy..
@Kitten_Witawip: OK! gets no fucking salt!
@The Cajun Boy: No salt?
Kitten_Witawip
@Smitros: Which is exactly why I chose it to accompany this post. It looks like the most horrible margarita ever.
The margarita pictured, though better than flat-out sobriety, looks a bit F'd up.
@lobstr: Don't forget the weather, cost of living, scenery, and quality of life! The Southwest is great. And good luck trying to find anything beyond Mexican Food 101 around NY. I've been looking for 4 years for a restaurant that has machaca on the menu. No dice.
@lobstr: Yeah, your friends were clueless. Also, does praline = cajeta?
@mfnher: I know - it was something surprising that I learned when I moved there. And it was a great way to get esposed to Mexican food that's not Chi-Chi's - rivaled the stuff I had in Mexico City, Guadalajara & Puerto Vallarta.
@KatieMick: Seriously. I just had normal Mexican food in Pilsen this weekend, in fact.
Gwenishka
@KatieMick: Outside of the Southwest, Chicago actually has the largest Mexican population.
mfnher
@lobstr: I have to disagree re: Chicago and Mexican food, Rick bayless, et al. There are many, MANY awesome places to grab great, cheap Mexican food. It's one of the things I miss about Chicago - grabbing a chimichange and mixtos @ El Pacifico on Belmont after the bars closed, or getting the Frontera/Topolobambo experience. Def. NOT quite the scene on the East coast - anywhere.
@Claire Buoyant:
Rick Bayless rocks as restaurateur and cookbook author. When Mrs. Smitros and I dined at Topolobambo in February, he was in there working like everybody else and not just being a celebrity.
@lobstr:
Alas, you were in the wrong part of Chicago. Condolen ces.
@cheap_sunglasses: I'm on somewhat of a diet but this thread prompted me to have barbacoa migas this morning }:D
@Claire Buoyant: Yeah, but there's a reason you never see him buying his supplies from local Chicago-area markets -- he makes frequent trips to Mexico City and Acapulco then hauls back wheels of Oaxacan cheese and tomatillos and shit.
Sure, anyone with a PBS show is gonna have quality :D ..
@lobstr: Christ, you're so dead on. Outside of Texas, forget it.
I've had the pleasure of eating at a few shacks in Brooklyn (run by recent Mexican immigrants), but almost all of the Mexican food in the city is pure shit.
The biggest let down? Always the salsa. Sweet, acidic, ketcupy...not hot at all. And Don't fergit all the NYU girls saying outloud, "omygod, this is SO good!"