A top chef has accused his longtime business partner of improperly funneling millions of dollars into side projects, including the revival of Williamsburg’s Kellogg’s Diner.Julian Medina says that Luis Skibar, who owns a fast-growing empire of Mexican-style eateries with Medina, has “unlawfully and systematically diverted, converted, concealed and misappropriated” funds for years, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan state Supreme Court.Medina is seeking damages of at least $10 million in the suit, which concerns outposts such as the popular Toloache chain on the Upper West and Upper East sides, Old John’s Luncheonette near Lincoln Center and Coppellia on West 14th Street.But the suit, which focuses on the precise stakes Skibar holds in jointly-controlled locations, is not expected to affect the operation of the restaurants, which have contributed to a wave of places offering haute Mexican cuisine in the post-pandemic era.“This is a fight between partners over profits,” said Robert Calica, a co-managing partner of the Long Island-based firm Rosenberg, Calica, Birney, Liebman & Ross and Medina’s counsel in the lawsuit. “We are hopeful that common sense will prevail.”Calica added that the legal action was necessary because Skibar has stonewalled efforts to share accounting information.Skibar downplayed to Crain’s the lawsuit’s significance while suggesting it could soon be settled. “There was a misunderstanding,” he said. A formal legal response to the... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2024-10-15 17:41:30 UTC ]
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This year's Booker Prize-winning novel, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, is to be translated into Turkish, Serbian, Portuguese and Arabic, following grants from the Publishing Scotland Translation Fund. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-19 02:04:43 UTC ]
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Operating under the Black Creatives Fund banner, We Need Diverse Books is partnering with Penguin Random House on a series of programs designed to get more books by Black writers published. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publisher Tribune has agreed to be sold to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting costs and eliminating newsroom jobs, in a deal valued at $630 billion Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2021-02-17 00:40:46 UTC ]
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Three Oxford-based groups of publishing workers are launching a survey to explore the experience of working from home and how work patterns might change after lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 17:30:43 UTC ]
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Founded five years ago as a home for entrepreneurial authors, Radius Book Group has published dozens of successful nonfiction books. (Sponsored.) Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has won a four-way auction for a “vivid and unexpected” group biography of four creative pioneers by Harriet Baker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 19:57:05 UTC ]
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Chicago’s only Black woman-owned bookstore opened in the summer of 2019. Over the past two years, Semicolon has served as a vital and vibrant cultural hub and gallery space. Last summer, as the coronavirus began to tear through our country and small businesses had to close their doors, Semicolon... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-12 16:25:48 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has pledged to work with the Woodland Trust for three years, following a donation the publisher made to sponsor a one-acre grove in Surrey. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 18:21:57 UTC ]
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Bluebird has released Nikesh Shukla's debut memoir Brown Baby with a campaign featuring innovative Facebook adverts which are said to be a first for UK publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 03:25:47 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has partnered with Open Door to find the voice of the unabridged audio edition for Kirsty Capes’ debut novel, Careless. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-05 17:16:14 UTC ]
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Journalist Martha Teichner tells the story of how she gained a pet and a friend. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-02-05 13:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s Friday, so why not look at some pictures of beautiful (literature-inspired) dresses that cost as much as pretty nice cars! Designer Kim Jones told British Vogue that his first collection for the luxury fashion house Fendi was inspired by the Bloomsbury Group, specifically Virginia Woolf’s... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-29 16:52:04 UTC ]
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Knights Of has partnered with children’s reading charity BookTrust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) to publish Happy Here, an anthology for middle grade readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 21:20:25 UTC ]
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Jon Yaged, head of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, has been promoted to president of all of Macmillan Publishers' U.S. trade group. Jen Besser has been named to succeed Yaged as head of the children’s division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter McGuigan, the cofounder of Foundry Literary + Media, filed a lawsuit against his former business partner, Yfat Reiss Gendell, on Friday. The suit claims that Gendell made illegal withdrawals of more than $860,000 from the former partners' literary agency. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Barrington Stoke has acquired The Great (Food) Bank Heist, a "heartfelt adventure" from Onjali Q Raúf that will offer a child’s perspective on the rapidly increasing problem of food poverty in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 19:46:51 UTC ]
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Veteran publishers' rep John Mesjak, who entered into a partnership with Abraham Associates founder Stu Abraham almost 10 years ago, has become the head of the Midwestern independent publishers rep group. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Blunt has been chief financial, operations and data officer for Hearst Europe. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2021-01-14 13:39:31 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has named David Drake, Scott Shannon, Kara Welsh, and Chris Jackson to new roles with expanded responsibilities, among others. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Maud Sepult will be promoted to group rights director at Simon & Schuster UK when Stephanie Purcell moves to Bloomsbury next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 01:49:37 UTC ]
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