Breakfast Clubbing #22
W/c Sept 9. ON this week in Paris, PDX, Wmsburg, The Hamptons, CDMX, MIA, CPH, Cincy, DTBK, Manhattan, Vegas and LA (Westside). Read to the end for Camp Cultivate update (invites released)!
HUGE Breakfast Week. Paris (tomorrow), Copenhagen (Weds) and Venice CA/LA Westside all debut. Plus all the standby weeklies, save London (off this week) and Edinburgh (back on Oct. 9th). New this week: Melbourne on October.
With all the new cities, I often get asked if there’s a specific way to do Breakfast Club, or invite people, or recap. The truth is there isn't. Case in point, Mike Kilcoyne’s wild and original “Tommy Hamptons” recap video, which made me smile this afternoon. To paraphrase Mike, AI is Wild.
Or, like Karla Rodriguez C’s exquisite invite to the first BC Paris. Love it.
Really, the only ‘right’ way to do Breakfast Club is YOUR way. That, and follow:
The Breakfast Club Esprit de Corps.
Everyone’s invited - especially you. And you can join the group here, too.
Feel free to share, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.
No agenda, no required buy-in, no RSVP. And no pitches.
Everyone pays their own way.
Everyone is welcome to subscribe:
SO - if that sounds like fun, raise a hand. Breakfast Club has got your back.
And now: Breakfast Clubbing ….
Breakfast Club Events Week of Sept 9th, 2024:
Tuesday, Sept 10th
Paris
Co-hosted by Lisa Ono, Karla Rodriguez Cespedes and Radhika Malhan
9a @ Kawa Coffee
Portland, OR
Co-hosted by Scott Crane and Nina Sers
9a @ Proud Mary
Wednesday, Sept 11th
Copenhagen
Hosted by Amy Daroukakis and Megan Routh a host of regulars
9-10:30a @ Cafe Coco
Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
Hosted by me, Ben Dietz and a host of regulars
8:30a @ Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel
The Hamptons
Co-hosted by Mike Kilcoyne
8:30a @ Tutto Cafe
Mexico City
Co-Hosted by Steve Bryant
8am @ Lardo
Miami
Co-Hosted by Jeff Carvalho and Jesse Kirshbaum
8:30a @ Oasis Wynwood
Thursday, Sept 12th:
Downtown Brooklyn
Co-Hosted by Jeff Weiner, Kat Popiel and Arielle Nissenblatt
8:30am @ As You Are (in the Ace Hotel DTBK)
Manhattan
Co-Hosted by Heidi Hartwig
8:30am @ Eva’s Kitchen on Grand
Cincinnati
Co-Hosted by Theo Erasmus and Emmit Jones (The Rare Beast)
8:30a @ Mom n Em Coffee
Las Vegas
Co-Hosted by Steph Balzer
8a @PublicUs
Friday, Sept 13th:
LA - Westside
Co-Hosted by Kirsten Ludwig, Scott Donaton and Anita Schillhorn van Veen
8:30am @ The Rose Cafe - Venice
Breakfast Club Events Upcoming:
* Sept 17th: Portland OR* Sept 18th: London, Williamsburg, Miami, Mexico City* Sept 19th: Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Cincinnati* September 25: Milan* October 4: Melbourne * October 14-17: Camp Cultivate: Mammoth, CABreakfast Club Events Last Week:
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Breakfast Club PDX Report 9.3.24
Per Nina’s Post:
A slow breakfast with a lot of coffee was the perfect re-entry to the week after the Labor Day weekend. We talked back-to-school, bird photography, childcare (always), the fear and terror of summer ending, Lake Tahoe, hosting friends, and upcoming work/passion projects.
I had to leave early so thank you to Kara Place for remembering to take our photo. See y'all next Tuesday at Proud Mary, 9 - 10:30am ✌
Scott Crane Kara Place Erté deGarces Mikhael Romain Julie Scherr Paul Dillon Jesse Champlin
Breakfast Club Williamsburg Report 9.4.24
Per my post:
In my zone we talked dogs on the roof, Miranda July’s "All Fours," names ending in IE or Y, soundproofing iconic nightclubs, breakfast club Miami, fashion week activations, Vans popping up Max Fish Bar, the Armory Show Inc, Hilary pecis’s new exhibition, experimental sound performances, art fair satellites, housemates in bands, forming a cover band, teenage bands in Bellport, LL Bean pants, using a chainsaw, GG Allin, shopping for trenchcoats that don’t make you look like Inspector Gadget, dressing up a turtle in human clothes, dreaming about corduroy suits, getting inspired by Alfargos marketplace, yeah, been on it start by making your mark, recovering from a massage, the new BATHHOUSE in flatiron, going hot and then cold, polar bear plunges, the perils of a packed house, very handsome Finns, the disappearance of salt and pepper from restaurant tables, the economics of dining, Breakfast Club Melbourne (October) and Copenhagen (next week) and lots more.
The crew was Elliot Aronow, Charles Bane III, Fernando Music, Dan Burt, Joel Linkewer, Nick Bodor, Liz Mantel, Paul Greenberg, Jeanie Voltsinis, Rob Hubbert, Ian Edgar, Amy Daroukakis, Marc Weissman, Chaz Mee, Paula Herrera, Ebenezer Bond, Afamefuna Onyebadi, Piers Fawkes, Enrique Huerta, Cheryl Miller Houser and me.
We do this every Wednesday and everyone's invited.
Breakfast Club Miami Report 9.4.24
Per Jeff’s post:
Breakfast Club Miami moved into Oasis Wynwood this week.
Why stay indoor when you can split inside and out at Oasis Wynwood.
We discussed the importance of creative community in Miami, the Miami NYC niteclub connection and how things used to be, and how to get your creative work in front of new prospects using unordinary tools.
This week, we were Sarween Salih, Laura Martinez, Daniel Allen Cohen, Shawn Kolodny, and Bill Spector who made my day by stopping by.
cc: Jesse Kirshbaum, Ben Dietz
Breakfast Club Hamptons Report 9.4.24
Per Mike’s Post:
Breakfast Club Hamptons is back, baby!
Come by, every Wednesday at Tutto Cafe. Everyone's invited, especially you.
We discussed lots of stuff, including but not limited to:
- Amy joy donuts
- Guild hall and Mary and starting it and art
- How gas stations started
- 4am pinhole photography
- The offensive power of the word THE
- Detroit and donuts and stuff like that
- Art and being a curator of culture
- The springs vs Springs
- Fortnite handles
Featuring:
Adam Donald, Jonathan Shoemaker (and Alex), Jim Porcarelli, Phillip Lehans
Breakfast Club Mexico City Report 9.4.24
Sleep! // Sleeping habits! // the little rituals we observe when trying to get back to that blissful realm of Morpheus, Nidra, and nature’s soft nurse // a recommendation to fall asleep to Master and Commander, but only after the first naval battle scene, otherwise: cannons // the perambulations of the freelance life // clients that almost were // the choppiness of the market // social clubs // tennis clubs // a French social tennis club that doesn’t require you to speak French but does require you to wear tennis whites // $20 cocktails at Soho House? In Mexico?? In this economy??? // a story about a blood vessels that popped // a story about smoking too much weed in a canoe // & a story about the pleasures of micro dosing on park-bought shrooms
This morning we were a mighty and handsome two, including Mark Holthusen
We do this every Wednesday 8am @ Lardo.Everybody's invited, especially you!
CDMX WhatsApp: https://lnkd.in/gD5eu63A
Breakfast Club Downtown Brooklyn Report 9.5.24
Per Kat’s post:
Back to Breakfast Club!
Had a great morning back in the mix, with our hosts Amanda Dell Amy Daroukakis & Jeff Weiner along with Jasmine Takanikos ari levine Julia Makhalova-Chi Donalee Curtis Safia Osman Margaret Bowling Abbey Kos Karen Labuca Jasmine Hope V. Hannah June Lueptow
Join us this September at The Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace in Downtown Brooklyn at As You Are with the following hosts:
🔥 12th - Arielle Nissenblatt
🔥 19th - Adam Katz & Jade Akintola
🔥 26th - Piers Fawkes
Everyone is welcome. Especially you.
Breakfast Club Cincy Report 9.5.24
Per Theo’s post:
End of summer vibes.
Breakfast Club Cincy 005.
We talked about Appalacian culture, Christian Nationalism’s toxicity, public bathrooms and the disdain for poor people’s needs, petro masculinity, Georgia’s guns, electoral politics, Dollar General’s immorality, true crime obsessions, summer reads and the necessities of meeting in person often. Jeff Kobberdahl, Jeni Barton, Edward Wright, Theo Erasmus, Ben Dietz
Vegas Breakfast Club report out for Sept. 5
Per Steph’s Post: .... in attendance were Bryce Brady, Bryan Scott, Teresa Abdo, Maria Maddock, Lina Dickey, and D.
Table topics included streets in Vegas named after states, the LSU v. USC football game at Allegiant Stadium, visiting Morocco, Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer squadrons (RED HORSE) at Nellis Air Force Base, working in private jet charter, how we eat our eggs, how boring Vegas used to be for teenagers in the 80s, planning high school reunions, making friends easily, the municipality of Ouray, Colo., Colorado as the "Switzerland of the US," the brisket fried rice at Le Thai, the Peruvian seafood fried rice at Moia Las Vegas, not judging restaurants by the strip mall, the old place that was going to be a farmers market off of Karen and Maryland Parkway, the redevelopment of the Historic Commercial Center District (and what restaurants are still there), whether downtown would ever get a Trader Joe's, and the new downtown location of Coffee Religion- Las Vegas.
See you next week ....
Vegas Breakfast Club
PublicUs | 1126 Fremont St.
Every Thursday | 8a
Also welcome to the new folks! 💕
The concept: everyone's welcome | no pitches | pay your own way | no RSPVs .... and here's the source to follow along worldwide: https://lnkd.in/gTM9bFrY
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Announcing Camp Cultivate
OK - I got special clearance this to open up a few slots to join me at the first ever Camp Cultivate, October 14-17 at Outbound Mammoth in Mammoth Lakes, CA
Camp will be a two day, three night gathering of 50 or so creatively minded, long-serving and highly networked people to connect, converse, socialize, explore,and celebrate - very much in the spirit of Breakfast Club.
It’s modeled in part on a similar experience called Saturnalia in North Adams Mass that I took part in that was hugely valuable to me - I got new friends, new associates and a bunch of new perspective out of it, in 2021 and have been jonesing for something like it since.
So when my longtime pal and head of marketing for Outbound, Bridget Russo, asked if I’d ever considered a Breakfast Club retreat, I jumped at the chance (after securing Saturnalia major domo Scott Stedman's very gracious approval).
So, the proposition is this: take a look, clear a few days register here. The only cost to you is $300 ($100/night) for your spacious, well-appointed) room, and finding your way to Mammoth (we can aid with that). Meals, programming and activities are all included. Guests need to be approved because of limits on capacity - but register if you’re down and we’ll give Breakfast Clubbing subscribers priority.
The vibes will be pristine, as the kids say. Friends from New York is running the music, the legend Lysa Cooper will lead wellness sessions and there will be plenty of familiar faces. It’s not vacation, so if you need to knock out some work while there - go for it. It’s cool.
That’s it(!!) for this round. See you at Breakfast! And if not this week, another one soon.
Ben
I think the LA location is wrong?