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Metric takes on Connecticut’s capital venue

December 28th, 2009 1 Comment

Photo Credit: Chion Wolf After completing a major Canadian tour and reaching the top of Billboard’s Heatseekers chart with their most recent release titled Fantasies, it seemed a little… quaint to have Metric at the Webster Theater in Connecticut’s capital city. Big names usually aren’t so common at the 70 year-old Webster and, for anyone […]

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A night of nostalgia and low-top chucks with The Pixies

December 2nd, 2009 No Comments

photo credit Barry Yanowitz When a friend offered me a ticket to the Pixies sold out show at Hammerstein Ballroom last Tuesday, I couldn’t resist. Even though I’m the most casual of Pixies fans, being able to identify two, maybe three songs at the most, I figured seeing them perform their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle in […]

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Recession Special: HUF & The Brooklyn Circus SF Black Friday Madness

November 25th, 2009 No Comments

Two of our favorite SF boutiques, HUF and The Brooklyn Circus SF, are having Black Friday sales it’d be criminal to miss. Both shops have been hard at work crafting new looks for 2010, and it shows in their respective lines. Go check out the fine new threads for yourself, and while you’re there, score […]

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London’s Monocle Magazine Meets J.Crew
worlds collide/decide they like it/throw swank party

November 23rd, 2009 1 Comment

Tyler Brule, Jenna Lyons, Frank Muytjens – image courtsey of Monocle Magazine Monocle Magazine, purveyor of all things cool, held a holiday party on November 17th at the J. Crew Men’s Shop in SoHo. It might seem surprising that a lifestyle magazine from London would hold a party in NYC, but for the listeners of […]

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RetroTalk: Vashtie Kola, New York’s “Downtown Sweetheart”

November 19th, 2009 6 Comments

Vashtie Kola. Not ringing a bell? Well it’s time to get familiar. New York’s “Downtown Sweetheart” has been hustling the mean streets of NYC for some time now. She’s been seen directing music videos for Kid Cudi (“Heaven at Nite“), creating her own fashion line, Violette, and organizing the wildly successful “

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“Your Message Here” Reception at Fred Flare

April 14th, 2009 1 Comment

Friday night, Fred Flare opened its doors for a party at their flagship store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The occasion at hand was a reception for the closing of “Your Message Here,” an installation that has been livening up their storefront for the past 40 days. Artists Shauna Alterio and Stephen Loidolt, otherwise known as “Something’s […]

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