I spent the evening visiting a friend in Brooklyn, and we ordered dinner in from ChipShop. All I can say is, WOW! Highly recommended if you find yourself hungry in Park Slope. It's definitely yum-yum deluxe.
Please advise: is this frock one of those things that men hate and women adore? It's hard to tell but its extreme cuteness is sending me into a state of fashion-y intoxication [Christian Joy "Florida Bean Dress," $75].
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST.
Mass Culture has forced the majority's subconscious into accepting a monotonous mindset pervaded by ignorance and inaction. Our aim at Riottt is to engage, enable, and organically-align you with other like-minded cultural movers: those who already have an agenda, those who will not settle, those living to make a change, those inciting independently-spurned righteous dialogue. I heart RIOTTT
Just as Godard's hyper-kinetic visuals exist alongside more ruminative,
careful images, his humor and cultural allusions mingle with an abiding
existentialism. "I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free,"
Seberg says, "or I'm not free because I'm unhappy." [culturespace on breathless]
"I have to say that these things are
hideous!" adds Jay Escobara, cofounder of New York-based design
collective Saenai. "Crocs personify the 'eclectic' person who really
isn't all that different from the Kmart shopper but pretends to follow
the trend in hopes it might place him among a group of people and/or
lifestyle." ["clog jam" @ radar]
The next few days downtown promise to be a blur of excitement and thrilling cultural mash-ups. To wit, I've got four events to attend to, and attend. But I simply cannot wait! And best of all, they're all FREE.
FRIDAY: "Borrow" a blazer, fill your flask, and drag a comb through that hippie
hair, because you’re all invited — just this once, of course — to the National Arts Club for the season opener of the PAGE reading series, featuring Katharine Weber (whose latest novel, Triangle, I’ve had the pleasure of publicizing), Ken Foster (The Dogs Who Found Me) and Kym Ragusa (The Skin Between Us), which promises to be a perfectly sparkling, New York evening. 7:00pm, FREE.
SATURDAY: At jen bekman, join style and fashion bloggers and friends for "Fall Into Fashion," an afternoon of gossip, art, notebooks, booze, experimental literature, sexy indie rockers and more. 4 - 6pm, FREE.
SUNDAY: On Sunday, MetaxuCafe.com presents The Exquisite Party, celebrating Laird Hunt’sThe Exquisite (Coffee House Press), which Rain Taxi describes as "both a response to 9/11 and a paean to Manhattan
—especially to its seedy, shadowy, cramped, and unhinged Lower East
Side, where anything can and does happen. . . . Here is an
extraordinarily intelligent, goofy, pained, energetic, gorgeously
written work that insists on letting the existential unsteadiness that
defines our era shape its very rhythms, warps, textual flexures.” And
it’s Sunday so happy hour at Lolita lasts all-l-l-l night. 6 - 8pm, FREE.
TUESDAY: Join us for the next edition of Barnes & Noble's Upstairs at the Square!
On Tuesday, September 19th, at 7:00PM, Dito Montiel, buzzed-about director of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
(which dazzled audiences at the Sundance Film Festival and opens in New
York and Los Angeles on September 29th) and author of a companion
memoir by the same name that inspired the film, and his good friend,
downtown singer-songwriter Jesse Malin, whose latest album is The Heat,
read and perform their work. Journalist Katherine Lanpher will again
host the program. At B&N's Union Square location. Admission is FREE, and no tickets are required.
