Weather got you down? Perk up.
Get this. The Daddy hooks you up with a free night's stay at the sexy Catalina Hotel in the heart of South Beach, no strings attached. We even throw in an open bar during the hotel's happy hour. (We know, we shouldn't have.) Also, you're also entitled to neighborhood-scented eau de perfumes from Bond No. 9.
There's never been a better time to express your love for the other white meat (other than maybe Porkapalooza '96). Try chef Tony Liu's Continental Ham Plate, Crispy Pigs Feet Salad with Pickled Chanterelles and Roast Suckling Pig with Salsa Verde.
In terms of below-the-belt style, you're more James Dean than Dean Cain (you know, back when he was wearing tights). Good news: Odin outpost Den has ousted the skinny-jeaned Cheap Monday collection in favor of classic and roomy Rag & Bone. Welcome back, blood flow.
Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester are up to 85% off. Any
more than that, and it would just come off as desperate.
411: Aug 22-26, 11am-7pm, 94 Grand (at Greene),
212-334-4964
Hermes
With Fashion Week looming like a
denim cloud, a sartorial spy tells us that Hermes is unloading men's shirts, sweaters, suits, shoes and
leather bags. Shh...
Musicians Feist, Grizzly Bear, Britt Daniel of Spoon and Jim James of My Morning Jacket perform to raise money to help kids write—or, as James puts it, "to help stave off the zombification of America." Exactly.
Celebrate the musical genius of perhaps the greatest saxophonist of all time—and definitely the greatest one nicknamed Yardbird—at outdoor concerts in two places he helped make cool, Harlem and the East Village.
