拉斯基纳（La Esquina）在迈阿密开业；贝克尔的右手法律障碍啊，夜生活所有权的纠结网络。A while back, Serge Becker, part-owner of The Box and La Esquina, told us in a statement that Cordell Lochin, the young scenester who presented himself as a partner in Becker’s restaurants before being convicted of drug-conspiracy charges, was merely an “indispensable advisor.” A December 15 memo from a government attorney calls that assertion into question, pointing at an undated letter from Becker that describes Lochin as “more than just a business partner.” That letter pleads for leniency because his company is “in the design stage of our second location of ‘La Esquina’ in Miami Beach at ‘the Gale’ hotel.” Exciting news, innit?
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La Esquina的Helena Elko没有出汗不久前，新来的新人Pinche Taqueria的所有者指责La Esquina的炸玉米饼含量较低。We were interested to hear the thoughts of Helena Elko, a server at La Esquina since its buzzy opening about two years ago (“It’s the only place where we can sell you a bottle of $700 tequila and then we’ll dance in front of you and tell jokes”). But Pinche’s got nothing on La Esquina, according to Elko. “Of course you’re going to start a war to get attention if you talk shit on La Esquina,” she says, “because everybody goes there.” And just why does everyone go there? We asked the waitress.
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Serge Becker：毒品交易的“顾问”不是Guest of a Guest broke the story yesterday that Cordell Lochin — thought be a partner in Serge Becker’s joints La Esquina, 205, and the Box — will be sentenced on October 10 for importing more than 100 kilos of weed and dealing it in New York in 2004 and 2005. There’s been speculation that the August 24 raid of the Box and La Esquina was related to this, and we’ve heard rumors that Cordell was recently arrested again — but the Box’s publicist, Nadine Johnson, tells us neither of these things are correct (a check with NYPD turned up no recent arrests). She also describes Cordell as a consultant and not a partner in the Box, as reported in a recent观察者个人资料和其他地方：“我们决定称他为合伙人，但他不是盒子或拉斯基纳的真正伙伴或雇员。”约翰逊说，塞尔格·贝克尔（Serge Becker）直到十天前才知道科尔德尔（Cordell）的过去。她还代表Becker向Grub Street发表了强调声明，进一步拒绝了Cordell的所有权股份。
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La Esquina重新打开，但Serge Becker的景点仍然不清楚拉斯基纳（La Esquina）的地下室和盒子再次打开，但塞尔格·贝克尔（Serge Becker）的困境可能还没有结束。墨西哥报纸La Reforma的记者Alberto Armendarig告诉我们，上周六205年（另一个联合贝克尔盖上了邮票），他被一个保镖cho住，并从俱乐部弹出了身体，以至于他试图将袭击指控予以新闻。(cops didn’t find any marks on him and told him to brush it off and call it a night). Sounds like any other Saturday to us, but Armendarig says he’s now on a quest to close the club down. As it turns out, he may not have to lift a finger. 205 to be Eighty-Sixed?
