Thursday, May 30, 2013

BUSHWICK ART SCENE | Feature Story | Magazine | Artfinder

BUSHWICK ART SCENE | Feature Story | Magazine | Artfinder

BASSMENT NYC - Every Thursday!

BASSMENT NYC

UD | A Stunning New Tango Palace in NoHo. See It Now..


Tango Unchained
Three Ways to Use Malbec and Tango House
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Malbec and Tango House
428 Lafayette St
(between Astor and E 4th)
New York, NY 10003
212-419-4645
official website
 
Wine-cork walls. Tango-themed choking posters. Veal Milanese with foie gras. Passionate rhythmic bodily gestures. Guys named Tato. Flamed gin/brandy cocktails. Wine barrels. Singing human alarms.

These are the things that comprise Malbec and Tango House, an immense, bi-level lair of wine, Argentine deliciousness and furious dancing, now soft-open in NoHo. This is how you’ll harness its power...

Start simple, with dinner upstairs.It’s like being inside a wine barrel—some walls are treated wood, another’s made of 18,000 corks. You’ll start your date here (and yes, there’ll be a date) with some hamachi and a bottle of Argentine, oh, let’s say... malbec. Maybe you work your way up to the two-person cut of lamb.

Or skip that and hit the basement entrance.Down a basement stairway next to the main entrance, past a wine-crate wall, is a bar. Tato Giovannoni (the South American Sasha Petraske) did the cocktail list, so avail yourselves of that. Eventually, an a cappella singer will break into song to let you know the performance is on.

Oh, right, the performance.In a couple weeks, nightly tango theater will be the thing here. Beyond the downstairs bar, there’s a theater, complete with graffiti wall and curtained VIP balconies. It’s where the world’s best tango dancers (freshly imported) will put on stagings produced by a 25-time winner of the Martín Fierro award—basically the Emmys of Argentina.

Which makes him the Kelsey Grammer of South America.

Mister Saturday Night | Mister Sunday

Mister Saturday Night | Mister Sunday

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

From Musk till Dawn A New Zealand-y Date Spot in Nolita

Things you know about New Zealand:

—It’s got more sheep than people.
Lord of the Rings.
—The people are called Kiwis.
—And it’s responsible for your dinner tonight...

Specifically, the New Zealander at The Musket Room, which is just what you’d like to imagine a large, rustic, brick-and-wood dining room in New Zealand to be, opening tonight in Nolita.

Your chef here hails from NZ. And on his way here, he also did some fine work at Public and Saxon + Parole, where it appears he ruminated on the art of the flawless date spot. Hence: this place. You’ve got candlelit nooks with blue leather banquettes, garden views, walls of wine and... delicate plates of whole quail.

The power move here is the nook. Some people might try to sell you on the back dining room with all its sunniness and herb garden adjacency. (Those edible flowers with your scallops: they’re from there.) And... well, sure, that does sound pretty great. But go with the nook.

The nook’s just past that walnut-tree bar you passed on the way in. Just six cozy two-tops where you’ll get to know a fetching fellow human being over fried bone marrow with citrus and uni, bottles of sauvignon blanc and venison flavored with gin.

Note: it’s also okay not to pass the bar



The Musket Room
265 Elizabeth St
(between Prince and Houston)
New York, NY 10012
212-219-0764
official website

DANCE.HERE.NOW. | Cielo NYC New York's Most Legendary Club

DANCE.HERE.NOW. | Cielo NYC New York's Most Legendary Club

Saturday June 22nd - Underground Eats – Exclusive access to alternative dining experiences & events

Underground Eats – Exclusive access to alternative dining experiences & events:

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Free NKOTB/98Degrees/Boyz II Men Concert | pulsd

Free NKOTB/98Degrees/Boyz II Men Concert | pulsd

The Best Summer Beers: Five NY Brew Experts' Picks - Drink - Thrillist New York

The Best Summer Beers: Five NY Brew Experts' Picks - Drink - Thrillist New York

Don't Miss the AIA Virtual Convention

Don't Miss the AIA Virtual Convention

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Skingraft | Next Magazine New Shop in Nolita

Skingraft | Next Magazine

May 21, 2013 On Your Mark Waterfront Burgers and Beer at the Seaport

Technology being what it is, there’s a good chance you’re outside enjoying this glory right now.

But you could always be a little more outdoors...er.

Somewhere with beer and wood planks, perhaps...

Like Watermark Bar, a sunny patch of pier where burgers and beer and being outside are the law of the land, opening tomorrow at South Street Seaport.

This was supposed to happen back in November, but... Sandy. The silver lining: back then, you wouldn’t have been able to take advantage of the tens of thousands of square feet of Brooklyn Bridge–adjacent outdoor picnic deck where alcoholized snow cones, LaFrieda beef and margaritas remind you of the true meaning of summer.

You’re coming to Pier 15 with a group of be-sunglassed compadres. And you’ll all just gaze out at the bridge and the river and the deck chairs at the end of the pier. Then you’re going to cartwheel all the way there (walking: also acceptable). The last building you reach will be the place—essentially a glass house filled with nothing but a black-tile-and-brown-wood bar, a few lanterns and red industrial stools.

Which is all well and good, but you’re just going in there to pick up provisions and take them out to the deck, beyond the bar. Or, if you look closely, there’s a smaller deck with a patch of grass on the roof.

Summer’s the best.

Diesel Sample Sale | pulsd Today through Friday - up to 75% off!!!

Diesel Sample Sale | pulsd

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Saturday, May 18th at Stage #48 - John Blair Promotions, VIVA SATURDAYS Home

John Blair Promotions, VIVA SATURDAYS Home

Verboten New York - Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, and DJ Sneak - Friday at Highline Ballroom

Verboten New York

Cameo Gallery - Check out Calendar Events - Williamsburg

Cameo Gallery

Summer Tracks 2013 by tonybueno on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

Summer Tracks 2013 by tonybueno on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

Hill and Dale | NYC - Open!


Hill and Dale | NYC
... You’re right. All this talk about antique radios and stiff drinks is making us thirsty.

Oh, we weren’t talking about that?

Okay, let’s talk about that, then...

Welcome to Hill & Dale, an old-school-parlor-looking LES gastropub that throws you back to the days of analog entertainment. It’s now open.

This is from the guys who brought you the Brooklyneer. Just picture a time when incredibly handsome microphones and on-air signs and extremely plush couches and fireplaces were a part of everyone’s daily existence, and you’ve got this place. So long as you toss some rye-Carpano-Antica-Ramazzotti-and-orange-peel cocktails into the fantasy.

You’re coming here for end-of-week drinks and maybe some grilled wild-boar sausage amongst friends. (Nothing brings friends together like boar.) You’ll all want to breeze past the initial set of booths at the entrance—the ones surrounded by old record-making supplies. When you reach more booths and some accordion overhead lamps, breeze again.

Just keep moving until you’ve cleared the bar and its many musical accoutrements, and found yourself in a chandeliered living room. You’ll know it by its tufted sofas, the fireplace and its general living-room-ness. It’s here where you’ll take your coconut-rum cocktails and oysters Rockefeller.

Assuming you enjoy the sensation of being insanely comfortable...

May 16th - 6:00 - 9:00 Hendricks & Ted Baker Open Bar Shopping | pulsd

Hendricks & Ted Baker Open Bar Shopping | pulsd

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Valley Girl!


Sunday! May 19th AIDS Walk New York | AIDS Walk

AIDS Walk New York | AIDS Walk

This Friday!!! May 17th...LGBT Connections Night at Leo Bar (May) | New York | Asia Society

LGBT Connections Night at Leo Bar (May) | New York | Asia Society

Rooftop Films 2013 Summer Series | Underground Movies Outdoors In New York - Check Line-up!

Rooftop Films 2013 Summer Series | Underground Movies Outdoors

Friday May 17th at Cielo

LET’S PLAY HOUSE | Cielo NYC New York's Most Legendary Club

This Sunday!!! Williamsburg Brooklyn - RA Tickets: The Panther Room + Rooftop Grand Opening with Art Department & Thugfucker at The Panther Room, New York

RA Tickets: The Panther Room + Rooftop Grand Opening with Art Department & Thugfucker at The Panther Room, New York

james turrell at the guggenheim new york - June 21 - Sept 25

james turrell at the guggenheim new york

Greg and Tammy retrofit their vintage Admiral Tele-Bar to hold a 24" flat screen TV - Retro Renovation

Major!  This is awesomeness...........


Greg and Tammy retrofit their vintage Admiral Tele-Bar to hold a 24" flat screen TV - Retro Renovation