This week, Perks is outfitting you for fall with a collection of shirts, shoes and accessories hand-selected
by our editors from Seize sur Vingt’s line of updated classics, all up to half off. To be clear: half off
the price. You’ll get all of whatever you order.
Maybe you never realized you wanted, needed or cared for a Sylvester Stallone Twitter feed. But when you get
the chance to read about BBQs with the Governator, workouts with Bruce and, um, curiously playful bantering
with Seacrest, you take it. You also take the occasional “Yo.”
Ah, Amsterdam. Home to a saucy red-light district. Curiously strong “tea.” And, of course, smartly made
cable-knit sweaters. Thanks to a new Dutch brand, at least one of those is now available online. No, not the
tea.
The Mayans foretold it. The Ancient Egyptians wrote of it. And we
gave you fair warning. 2010: a big year for s’mores. The latest development: they’re coming to that
most iconic of fall drinks, apple cider. Now mixed directly into your marshmallow, chocolate and
graham-cracker treat. We’re not sure what happens if you set this on fire, but it can’t hurt to find
out.
You’re in the market for a new car. A convertible. That will turn heads. Perhaps when you drive it around
your kitchen. Introducing a collection of drivable half-size cars that are modeled to recreate some of the
most famous automobiles of the 20th century. We’re pretty sure they had one of these on Silver
Spoons.
Alex P. Keaton. JFK. Those guys from Dead Poets Society. All have one thing in common: legendary
heads of hair. Also: they were preppies. Your field guide to the species: the legendary 1980 tome The
Official Preppy Handbook, which inspired the creation of J.Crew. Now, 30 years later, you get a sequel:
True Prep, with new rules on summer. Namely, that it’s still a verb.
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