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September 02, 2008

No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn: Fashion Week on the Brooklyn Bridge

Posted at 02:49:05 PM in Brooklyn nightlife, Current Affairs, Events, Fashion, Fashion Week, Shopping
by Melanie Berliet

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You have goals! Ideas! Ambitions! And a growing list of "Things To Do While Living in NYC," which you started with the best intentions but have since neglected in favor of a longer, more important list of Ways to Get Drunk in the City. Lucky for you, there's a fun, easy way to scratch "walk across the Brooklyn Bridge" off that dusty old list. Head over to the bridge at 6pm tonight for Fashion Indie's No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn fashion show. There you'll find a crowd of spectators eyeing the procession of models and previewing looks from labels like Love Brigade, Brooklyn Royalty, Mandate of Heaven, New York Couture, all of which will be featured during the next 8 days of Fashion Indie Week Brooklyn.

For more fashion-related news, check out our coverage of New York shops.

August 18, 2008

Boogy at a Benefit Concert at Santos' Party House

Posted at 02:13:19 PM in Big night out, Current Affairs, Events, Music, Soho nightlife
by Melanie Berliet

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Photo from the SFOTE organization.

You may be close to saving up for the vacation you deserve, but it's time to use some of your dough toward a cause even more worthy than achieving the perfect sun-kissed glow. For $30 you can purchase a ticket to the Laventille Bus benefit concert organized by the SFOTE organization, taking place tonight, August 18th, at 9pm at Santos' Party House in Soho. You'll see performances by Dragons of Zynth, Kaneng Lolang, the Brooklyn Jumbies performance troupe and more. Following the concert, you're welcome to stick around for the late night dance party beginning around 12am.

Go--if not so you can feel good about yourself for staving off skin cancer at least a while longer--because 100% of the door proceeds will be donated to SFOTE's 2008 Educational Initiative, providing free transportation to and from school for children in Laventille, Trinidad. In Laventille, where there's a free public school system, the lack of free public transportation forces kids whose families can't afford the daily round trip to drop out of school. Why not join the effort to educate children and enjoy some live music on a Monday along the way?

Lookin' for more places to booze? Check out Now in New York: New Nightlife.

August 07, 2008

Good Luck Courtesy of the Shanghai Tang Boutique

Posted at 12:34:43 PM in Current Affairs, Events, Shopping
by Melanie Berliet

Shanghai_2It pains you to admit it, but you're secretly superstitious. It's no accident that your significant other dumped you; you never would have been caught cheating were it not for that black cat that crossed your path. 

It's really about time you had some good luck for once, which is why you will make an extra effort to be one of the lucky 888 passersby on the corner of 57th and Madison Avenue tomorrow, August 8th, 2008, at 8:08am. There you will receive a red envelope containing one lucky Chinese dollar from a women dressed in a red silk dress, representing the Shanghai Tang boutique. Eight is the most auspicious number in Chinese culture, and not only will your dollar bring you well-deserved good luck, but its serial number might also entitle you to a shopping spree at the Shanghai Tang boutique in the amount of $888! To find out if you're that lucky, swing by the store up the block, at 600 Madison Avenue (between 57th and 58th Streets), and, whether or not you win the gift certificate, consider yourself lucky to check out the modern chic pieces by the luxury Chinese brand while there.

Then, because you're exhausted from all your new luck, treat yourself to a spa treatment. There are plenty of spa deals waiting to be exploited by lucky people like you.

Photo borrowed from Shanghai Tang

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