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It’s the first ever Grand Street Restaurant Week from February 17 – 23, 2014! Fourteen East Williamsburg restaurants have signed up to offer three-course dinner specials for $25; several restaurants will also offer two-course lunch specials for $10. Click on the image for the map, and take a look at their website here.
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Do you want to look like a chic New Yorker, even in a sideways-blowing snowstorm? Do you know how to tie a scarf? Well, here’s something to do while you’re trapped inside: get ready to go outside by practicing your sartorial skills. Here are instructions, complete with gorgeous photos, to tie a snood, a french twist, and a shoulder wrap; face the world looking sharp.
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In honor of next month’s 25th anniversary of their debut album 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul are making their entire catalog available for free download for 25 hours on the group’s website. The download bonanza will begin on Friday, February 14th at 11 a.m. EST until Saturday at noon.
Me, Myself, and I
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best friend. Hope and I were flunking math class so we became speed freaks. This honed our algebra skills and we quickly became whiz kids. For about 5 minutes. Then, our brains started to fry and we were just teenage speed freaks.
Then, we decided to to seek gainful employment.
Lee Renaldo and the Dust at Union Pool with Steve Gunn on Valentine’s eve; treat yourself to a bouquet of pastoral psychedelic cool.
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust will be touring in 2014 in support of the Last Night On Earth album, released October 2013, the followup to 2012’s Between The Times and The Tides. Opener, Brooklyn’s Steve Gunn, is a sometime-guitarist in Kurt Vile’s Violators, and one-half of the Gunn-Truscinski Duo. Get thee to Union Pool this Thursday night.