Performa, a non profit arts organization, kicks off the opening of the The Metal Shop tonight, Thursday November 6th, at the Tribeca Issey Miyake.

The Metal Shop is a pop up store, organized by Performa, to outfit the guests for the The Metal Ball which will take place on November 15th. Metallic apparel, accessories, books and objects d’art by well known and independent designers have been especially selected and are available at special prices. A percentage of proceeds from The Metal Shop supports the Performa 09 Biennial.

Designers include Issey Miyake, Pleats Please, Shelly Steffee, Puma, Michael Kors, Tuleste Market, Darcy Miro, NUN, Dernier Cri, Paste, Made by Eugene, Laura Dawson, Love Brigade, Patrik Ervell, Yamak, Prismera, B Boutique, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Thayer Digby and Iona, Immigrant, Destination, Bario-Neal, Dahl by Alison Kelly, Alicia Alizadeh, Deka Ray and H Fredriksson.

The Metal Shop, located at 119 Hudson Street, will be open to the public through November 15th. The shop is open Monday through Saturday 11 to 7pm and Sunday 12 to 6pm. Tickets to The Metal Ball can also be purchased at the store.

To learn more about the The Metal Ball on November 15th, visit www.performa-arts.org.

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To celebrate this historic election, Daryl K is taking 50% off all Fall Merchandise. The sale started Tuesday and lasts until Sunday, November 9th.

55 DSL celebrates the opening of their concept shop in Orange County tonight. Music provided by Lykke Li, Bjorn and Dan Sena. Art by Greg “Pnut” Galinsky. This temporary retail pop up shop will be open November 6th until January 31st at the South Coast Plaza. The shop will have limited edition products perfect for the holiday season.

Tonight, our friend Kenzo Minami, invites you to sip champagne while he spins an eclectic selection of music at BEast. Rumor has it, Interview Magazine will be there taking photos for an upcoming shoot entitled “Sunglasses at Night” from 11:30-12:30 am. Dress to impress and you may be picked to be part of the shoot. Click on the flyer for more info.

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Hood By Air’s S/S lookbook is now online for viewing! Shayne and Raul are killing it, giving us piece after piece of interesting silhouettes and details. This Thursday, October 9th from 7pm-10pm Hood By Air celebrates the opening of their temporary pop-up shop at the A.S.S. gallery. Be there for a special live performance at 7pm. Visit www.hoodbyair.com for more info. Click on flyer below for more info.

Wednesday, October 8th- FADER, VP Records & HEAVYWE1GHT Sessions present The BUSY SIGNAL / LOADED official album release event @ Santos.
Edwin “STATS” Houghton (FADER) - MAX GLAZER (FEDERATION) - Weed Kalogne
Busy Signal scheduled to appear live via satellite! (Or maybe DVD) first 12 guests to make
themselves known will receive a free copy of the new LOADED LP from BUSY SIGNAL.
10pm - $5 at the door
LOWER MANHATTAN DANCEHALL SOCIETY happens every Wednesday at Santos Party House. 100 Lafayette

Also this Thursday, October 9th- Shop will be having a party at their 94 Orchard Street store with Siwy Denim. Michelle Siwy will be on hand to personally fit girls into the perfect jean. Drinks and cupcakes will be served. Click on invite for the details.

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Ricky Powell, Lush Life, SugarHead Quarters (SHQ), Proof 7 and Red Bull invite you to join them as Powell unveils work that has until now been sealed away from the public eye in his West Village apartment. Appropriately entitled “Apt. A,” the exhibition will feature Powell’s most personal, iconic photography to date.

Ricky Powell is a preserver of one of contemporary society’s most important cultural moments: the proverbial Golden Age of hip-hop. Powell’s ascendancy into hip-hop occurred as the culture was in its rebellious youth, born from his impulsive backstage raid of Run DMC and the Beastie Boys’ Raising Hell tour in 1986. As fate would have it, the Beastie Boys would bring Powell along to photograph their 1987 License to Ill tour shortly thereafter. It was then that Powell was first exposed to the wild underground universe of hip-hop superstardom that he has continued to document with unparalleled candor and sarcasm on film.

Indeed, Powell’s Apt. A collection presents a rare opportunity to look into the lives of hip hop’s original luminaries before the culture was being taken seriously enough to merit coverage in mainstream media. Having shot everyone from Slick Rick to Eazy E at their most candid and simultaneously histrionic, Powell has gone on to publish several books of his photography, launch a TV program and partner with Lush Life’s Ryan Sikorski to further immortalize his work through a streetwear brand that reeks of New York authenticity. Though his work has since taken him around the world several times, Powell remains aesthetically rooted in the streets of New York, anchored firmly to the environment that introduced him as a photographer back in the 1980s.

The exhibition will be on display from October 7th- December 7th. All pieces are signed and available for purchase at SHQ. Gift bags at the event courtesy of Lush Life, Akomplice, Proof 7, The Beatards and others to be confirmed. Apt.A is coordinated by SHQ and is the launch of the Ricky Powell World Tour 2009. Dates are still being confirmed for Tokyo and London.

The opening reception is Tuesday, October 7th @ 7pm at SugarHead Quarters located at 174 Rivington St.
After-party 9pm-midnight at Beauty Bar- 231 E.14th Street. Music provided by DJ Elle and DJ IXL.

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1- Complex Magazine and JC Cognac invite you and a guest to celebrate the album release for 77 Klash featuring a live performance and special guest DJs. At the Red Bull Space- 40 Thompson Street. 9:30pm-Midnight. RSVP(at)complex(dot)com. After party at Sutra.

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We’ve officially launched our debut Fall 2008 collection! This season our collection consists mainly of graphic tees, but Holiday brings our first cut and sew pieces that we guarantee you’ll love! Below is our official press release, make sure to let all your friends know!

Worship Worthy, the highly popular, street-level culture forecasting web portal, is launching “WW†”, a collection of street-inspired pieces geared towards their loyal audience of women with an appreciation of independent and avant-garde fashion. Available for the Fall 2008 retail season, the collection represents a natural return to founder Jennifer Wannarachue’s own design voice after years of focusing on forecasting and consulting. Creating this new offshoot of the Worship Worthy brand truly helps its audience grasp that the brand is not simply about editorial but the unique marriage of design and market awareness.

Consisting of t-shirts, sweatshirts, leggings and an outrageous, electrical tape-emblazoned dress, the premier, small run collection (entitled “Good and Evil”) employs empowered and bold graphics with a twist of sweet femininity to visually unite religious elements, an homage to Vivienne Westwood, sex positive lyrics, and the design roots of punk. Wannarachue specifically designed the dark, sexy collection with the intent to accentuate the tension between opposites: “…good and evil, sweet and salty, saint and sinner. It’s bold rebelliousness mixed with hints of traditional femininity”. Discharge and water-based print applications are utilized with the intent of preserving a soft and sexy feel to the collections graphics. The collection’s sophisticated-yet-playful color palette consists of black and white print combinations to resonate a feel of punk’s core roots, jewel tones paired with pastels, and a pop of neon yellow.

For its debut collection, WW† commissioned Amsterdam’s “calligrafitti” artist, Niels “Shoe” Meulman to create the gothic painted logo. “His calligraphy lettering is exactly what Worship Worthy is all about”, Wannarachue explains, “beautiful and organic but also dark, gothic and a little evil.”

The Worship Worthy Fall 2008 collection will be available at Reed Space and Bauhaus (HK), as well as online at Cultist Shop.

For more information visit: www.wwtnyc.com.

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1992 presents “STRICTLY FOR THE LADIES” PT.3
A night dedicated to the ladies of NYC.
MONDAY · SEPT. 29th · 11pm · 5$
@ HAPPY ENDING. 302 BROOME ST. (bet. Forsyth and Eldridge)
In the Lower East Side.
music by DJ ELLE , DJ JACLYN & DJ LINDSEY
hosted by us! THE WORSHIP WORTHY crew.
flyer by osclops & cleofus
font : Helvetica

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Tomorrow Night: Wednesday, September 24th
THE HOLLYWOOD MOON TOUR - NYC brought to you by: Good Peoples & Mean Red

featuring LIVE performances by:
KID CUDI (Fools Gold), HOLLYWOOD HOLT (Chicago), CHRISTIAN RICH (Atlanta)
DJ sets by: MILLION $ MANO, ELI ESCOBAR
supported by: Rocksmith * Worship Worthy * The Culture Of Me

LOVE. 179 Macdougal St (@ 8th Street)
18+ * 10pm Doors * $10
advance tickets *HERE*
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also tomorrow night:
In association with FADER Magazine & Santos Party House -100 Lafayette
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH 10pm downstairs

Lower Manhattan Dancehall Society presents
DEADLY DRAGON, RICE N’ PEAS & HEAVYWE1GHT

Mr.K - Queen Majesty - Scratch Famous - Selector JD
DJ Gravy - Weed Kalogne - DJ Maya & Micro Don
MAX GLAZER (FEDERATION) - Edwin “STATS” Houghton (FADER)

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“Once you start living downtown, it can begin to feel like a big kids high school. It’s like never never land, a place where one can stay young forever.” The taxis begin to feel like the school buses. The restaurants are like our cafeterias. The bars and clubs are like our school dances and the streets are like our high school hallways!

But if downtown NYC were really a high school, what would it look like and who would the school body be?

Inspired by both the traditional American high school yearbook and Ezra Petronio’s book “Bold and Beautiful” of Self Service, 15 girls were invited to partner as co-creators to make a downtown NYC yearbook through artistic collaboration. They were asked to highlight the young and creative people around them through Polaroid photography to act as their class photo and given spreads in the book to design in a way that best represented the lifestyle and creativity of those people. THE YOUNG AND THE BANGING provides a playful look into downtown NYC as if it were really a high school through elements that made those four years a unique, terrifying and memorable experience for all of us.”

-Heron Preston

The contributors include local favorites Tracy Antonopoulos, Sage Grazer, Rachel Smith, Philippa Price, Nicole Saldana, Louise Erhard, Laura Gerster, Katia Hakko, Kate Brien, Kathy Lo, Julia Tepper, Dana Veraldi, Carly Mark, Anna Skladmann and Amanda Merten - learn more about them here: http://www.lagirlsny.com/blog/our-work/

THE YOUNG AND THE BANGING. 2008 NYC DOWNTOWN YEARBOOK
BOOK RELEASE OPENING RECEPTION
September 4, 2008
8 - 11pm
255 Elizabeth Street - New York City
Presented by O.H.W.O.W. / LAGIRLSNY / NIKE SPORTSWEAR
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BLOWOUTS & STORE OPENINGS IN BABYLON:

Wednesday, Sept 3rd- THE HUMP : Your Favorite Jams from ‘88-’98. Special Guest DJ: Brainchild. Hosted by Mary Pryor. Resident DJ’s: DJ LINDSEY & DJ MYLES. $6 Specialty Cocktails and Well Drinks until midnight. RSVP to thehumpnyc@gmail.com. Blue Owl - 196 2nd Avenue (btw 12th and 13th Street) 10PM - 3AM FREE! www.grotesk.to (flyerdesign)

Thursday, Sept 4th- In God We Trust New Store Opening Reception. 6pm-9pm. 153 Ludlow btwn Stanton & Rivington.

Thursday, Sept 4th- Shop. 94 Orchard Street. In celebration of the recent move they are having a big grand opening party. Lots of cupcakes, champagne, gifts and giveaways. 5pm-8pm.

Saturday, Sept 6th- Following the announcement in February to cease production of Polaroid instant film, conceptual photographer Lynnette Astaire’s New Orleans inspired performance comes highly anticipated at this years Deitch Art Parade. In it’s 4th year, the annually curated event, sponsored by Deitch Projects, Paper Magazine and Creative Time, marks the beginning of the fall art season in New York City. The event is held on West Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. Past and current performers include Yoko Ono, Kenny Scharf, Scissor Sisters, and Steve ‘ESPO’ Powers. Lynnette’s piece, entitled “The Polaroid Funeral” is a live adaptation of a self portrait session produced earlier this year. Classically trained in dance and music, this marks her debut in the art world as a performance artist. The Art Parade is Saturday September 6th 2008 at 4pm on West Broadway between Houston and Grand Streets in Manhattan.

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CLAWMONEY Back to School Sale!!! click flyer for more info.
Shop at: www.clawmoney.com

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A dark, faceless figure shielding its head with a white bandana clutches a rifle, pointing it towards a giant McDonalds symbol that many often associate with obesity. Although the story behind this street art is unknown, female activists in Tehran going on hunger strikes for the violent conditions they’ve faced inside prison cells may be a possible clue. Graffiti artist A1One’s “Hunger from Tehran” is one of the many graffiti pieces featured at “Visual Slang 2008: The Modern Urban Imagination” displayed at Abrons Art Center on the Lower East Side. Curator Lois Stavsky unites artists from Iran to Tel Aviv in one exhibition where tales of survival, despair, and hope from the streets of their war-ridden homelands are revealed.

Immediately upon entering, visitors will be lured in by an “Autumn Venus” a series of enamel portraits based on the goddess of love by local artist Antony Zito. His giant voluptuous lady stares closely with large sad eyes as burning orange hair cascades down her golden beige skin. Smiling-Bag Productions shows a “Madonna and Child from Tel Aviv” where a young mother holds onto her son as they stare at each other against an azure backdrop, their faces covered with gas masks, shielding themselves from the scent of death. Barcelonan artist Pez is also featured with his cheery triple-eyed flying alien, bringing humor to the exhibit of brain-cranking political messages.

Visual Slang 2008 is proof that graffiti isn’t the enemy of a city, but its voice that some wish to prevent from speaking for fear of what it will say.

Visual Slang 2008: The Modern Urban Imagination is on view at the Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement til the end of this month. 466 Grand Street New York, NY 10002

Visit www.henrystreet.org for more info.

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ON A SIDE NOTE

Fruition relaunches their website! This season they have collaborated with Stussy, pulling out some of their deadstock that has been boxed up for years! If you’re in Vegas right now for the shows, make sure to stop by. www.fruitionlv.com

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Tonight is the last Big Bamboo party. Stop by to say your thanks to Linyee and Queen Majesty. Jamaican Ska, Rock Steady, and Rub a Dub and more! 8PM-Midnite! No Malice Palace and Garden. 197 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 27th- The Hump continues with a birthday celebration for Mikey. DJs Thanksgiving Brown and Barthelona, hosted by Jeru the Damaja, Aliya, and Mikey. at Blue Owl.

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Tonight, Tuesday, August 19th- LinYee + Queen Majesty invite you to celebrate the summer with BIG BAMBOO! TUESDAYS. Their 2nd to last party of the summer. A weekly rotation of special guests selecting Jamaican Ska, Rock Steady, and Rub a Dub and more! with special guest selector DJ Eddie Stats (HEAVYWE1GHT) PLUS 8PM-9PM Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s “Repentance” Listening Party. Every Tuesday, 8PM-Midnite! No Malice Palace and Garden
197 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B. No Cover.Backyard.DancingMood. Special giveaways for the early birds!

Wednesday, August 20th- MadeMe + WorshipWor†hy + Around the Way Girls present “Strike A Pose” Music by Ni** Sky & Radio Rose. MadeMe Fall 08 Video Lookbook Unveiling. 10pm-3am. photos by Cee the Photographer (Kicksclusive). Socialista // 505 West Street @ Jane. Open Bar 11pm-midnight compliments of 42 Below Vodka. Cocktail Specials All Night: First Floor: Beers $5, Well Cocktails $8, Tacate & Fofoquero Shot (Cachaca, Lime, & Simple Syrup)–DELICIOUS! $8. Second Floor: the Big Bird- Vodka, Soda, Pineapple Juice $10. RSVP: strikeapose{at}pitchcontrolpr.com

Thursday, August 21st- At the 55DSL store in NYC! Featuring amazing pieces of art crafted from recycled and found objects from the streets of NYC and special guest appearances by legendary DJs! Catch a sneak preview of 55DSL’s brand new Fall Winter Collection: LOW NOISE HIGH QUALITY. Lots of art, free booze, signed posters, sorbet, goody bags, and much more!

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