Shopping, Style and Beauty

23 May 2010

Your Ultimate Sunday: Fairs, Fests, BBQ and BUST

Normally we like to cover one must-see event and gush about how awesome it is and how your social life would plunge to great depths if you miss it, but there is just way to0 much going on today to just pick one. I hate to sound like a cliche

0
17 May 2010

PBS Shows = The Perfect Gifts

In the past few years I’ve been giving people in my family DVDs as gifts.  Whether it be a season of The Wire for Hanukah or a copy of The Goonies for a birthday, DVDs have seemed to be a pretty solid bet (especially since I’m not crafty enough to

0
14 May 2010

Cheap Mani/Pedis at Minna Nails

Minna Nails is my godsend. Normally, I don’t like to pay other people for my own personal cosmetic maintenance. I cut my own hair, I pluck my own eyebrows, I perform at-home Brazilians… you get the idea. I am an independent woman! However, there is one area of my body

0
12 May 2010

Kingdom Grand Opening with FREE Booze and Food

Admittedly, I have put back a beer to calm my nerves before shopping for annoying clothes items. (Annoying because jeans and shoes are more expensive than I want them to be). So Brooklyn Royalty’s new store Kingdom is the best idea I’ve heard in a while. Instead of opening a

4
12 May 2010

Celebrate Your NYC Birthday with a Shit-ton of Freebies

Twenty-nine years ago today, an angel descended from the heavens to bestow upon this earth a boy of unequivocal wit, humor and conceit. You should’ve seen him. Big, bright eyes. Rosy cheeks flush with innocence. A smooth, pinchable ass. And while those first two characteristics have evaded that boy in

5
10 May 2010

More Cheap Clothes in Union Square! Daria on DVD!

I’m really excited for two very different things happening tomorrow… 1. Daria comes out on DVD. If you were a fan of the show, you have also been waiting for eight years for the DVD box set. I would like to point out that you can order the Bachelor Finale

1
10 May 2010

Throwing a Birthday Party: Do’s and Don’ts

Birthday parties as a kid were the best. You got wolf down ice cream while presents were shuffled past you and if you acted like a brat you got put in time out. It was all very democratic. I distinctly remember go down a slide that extended out of the

1
07 May 2010

Limelight Marketplace Opens

So this is fucking weird.  And it makes me feel really old.  The very first ‘club” I was ever “up in” in my life has become a sort of haute-bourgeois foodie mecca and it opens this weekend.  The first place I ever saw real live drag queens and heard real

3