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New York Wine Expo Is Back!

The 3rd Annual New York Wine Expo, February 26th – 28th, (28th for trade only) is an opportunity to swirl and sip wines from around the globe. French wineries and vineyards will have a significant showing this year, and as always, attendees can continue to look forward to Italian, German, Australian, and South American favorites. Not to be missed of course, local New York, Oregon and California wines. In all, the Grand Tasting offers attendees a chance to sample more than 600 wines from over 170 winemakers from around the world.  Attend the Expo not just for the sampling, but for the learning experience as well. To date, seminar presenters include Gloria Maroti Frazee and Leslie Sbrocco.  PRICE: Save on tickets purchased before February 19 Friday admission: in advance Saturday admission: in advance  TO PURCHASE: Go to: www.NewYorkWineExpo.com  Check web site for regular updates on Seminar schedules and special guests. Time: Fri., February 26th 6PM – 10 PM; Sat., February 27th 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM; Sun., February 28th *Trade Only 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Co-Chairs and Honorees (when applicable): Location: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City. Ticket Price: Save on tickets purchased before February 19. Friday admission: in advance; Saturday admission: in advance. Contact: Email:  Phone:  Website: Click to Visit

 

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Big Brothers Bash at Cipriani's

All proceeds raised at the event benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC's mentoring programs. With every $2,000 raised, providing the financial support a Big-Little mentoring match needs for one year. 

Tickets are available at: https://secure.entango.com/donate/GGQs5Phu7As

During the event from 9pm – 2am guests will enjoy non-stop entertainment including music from DJ Mode of Club One and Delicatessen in NYC and G Lounge in Philadelphia. There will be casino-style gambling, silent auction, a Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament, open bar and gourmet tasting menu. VIP guests can relax in the VIP Mezzanine lunge area and everyone that attends will leave with a gift bag. Event sponsors include Gibson and Dunn and Pioneer Alternatives Investments. 

Date: February 20, 2010
Time: 9:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Location: Cipriani Wall Street
Tickets: 
General Admission: $150 in advance ($165 at door)
VIP Tickets: $200 
Pre-sale tickets available for $135 (General Admission) and $175 (VIP)
For more information visit; www.ypcbignightout.com 
Location: Cipriani Wall Street
Address: 
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Get driving directions »
Website: http://www.ypcbignightout.com
E-mail: hollie_pantano@yahoo.com
Contact name: Roxanne Scher
Phone: hollie_pantano@yahoo.com

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Tour of Manhattan

We've picked 4 excellent master chocolate makers in SoHo and the East Village to visit and they're all close by. Purchase of chocolates additional. We'll meet at MarieBelle, top-quality chocolates are only exceeded by their beautiful silk-screen designs. Next is Kee's, one of the highest-rated chocolate shops according to Zagat, adding new intense Asian flavors. Third on our tour is Vosages, exceptional French chocolate truffles, often leading to lines out the door. And our last chocolatier is a surprise in the East Village, because this store is on a street with no sign, and the store has no sign either. Her specialty is a pretzel-covered chocolate shell encasing silky, creamy, sea-salted caramel. To help support the good work of Food Bank For New York City, a non-profit helping to feed the hungry, we ask for a .00 donation per person. 100% of all donations go to charity. Since December 2008 your donations have helped feed 50 New Yorkers for a month. We wish to thank all who generously gave. If you'd like to donate online, please go to PayPal at; http://www.paypal.com…. and send your contribution to; sales@walkingtoursmanh… Meet our tour guide with the red ball cap saying Walking Tours Manhattan on Sunday February 14, 2010 at 11am at; MarieBelle 484 Broome Street, (bet. West Broadway & Wooster) Tour lasts 1 1/2 hours. Walking distance is 1 mile. For additional tours visit; http://walkingtoursman… Location: MarieBelle Chocolates Address:  484 Broome Street New York, NY 10013 Get driving directions » Website: http://walkingtoursmanhattan.com E-mail: bruce@walkingtoursmanhattan.com Contact name: Bruce Scher Phone: 917-842-4319

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Phoenix House Summer Bash

For more than four decades, Phoenix House has been a beacon of hope, serving the most vulnerable men, women, and children-rebuilding shattered lives, reuniting families, and strengthening communities affected by substance abuse and dependency. 

On Saturday, June 26, Phoenix House will honor Tony DiSanto, President of Programming at MTV, and Lauran and Charlie Walk, CEO and Founder of CWE Media and Chairman of RJW Collective. 

This star-studded event will be held at the beautiful home of Margie and Michael Loeb and will feature the music of DJ Cassidy. Proceeds from this event will benefit our Long Island Academy for teens in recovery, and our East Hampton outpatient program. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click on the website listed below.

Location: At The Home of Margie & Michael Loeb
Address: 
1610 Meadow Lane
Southampton, NY 11977
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Website: http://www.phoenixhouse.org/national/nat…
E-mail: lbspro@optonline.net
Contact name: Linda B Shapiro

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Psycho Bunny's Trunk Shows

Psycho Bunny will be hosting two trunk shows this month at Nordstrom stores in Florida.  Stop by to receive a one-on-one consultation on men’s dressing for the season. You can receive with a gift with any Psycho Bunny purchase!  Hurry because supply is limited!

 

June 11th

Nordstrom in Aventura Mall

19507 Biscayne Blvd

Ste 15

GIFT WITH PURCHASE with a purchase of Psycho Bunny Polo

 

June 25

Nordstrom in Coral Gables

4310 Ponce de Leon Boulevard

GIFT WITH PURCHASE of Psycho Bunny socks with a purchase of a polo or necktie

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Seeking Arrangement Party – New York – May 4th, 2010

SeekingArrangement.com, the leadingsugar daddy dating website, and SeekingMillionaire.com, the leading millionairedating website, will be hosting an exclusive party for fans of the mutually beneficial relationship concept. Organizer Alan Action says the party will provide an understanding venue for wealthy men and the gorgeous girls they love to spoil to mingle.

Seeking Arrangement Party

 

To be held at Merchant’s NY, one of New York City’s only Cigar Bar, guests will be treated to a multilayer venue, featuring an extravagant array of settings to fit the taste of any sugar; including a wine room, restaurant, premium cash bar, outdoor patio, and dance floor.

Attendees are expected from all over the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sugar daddies and benefactors attending will include rich, wealthy, successful, established and generous men including lawyers, executives, politicians, professional athletes, investment bankers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and millionaires. Sugar babies attending will include beautiful, attractive and gorgeous girls including students, models, aspiring actresses, artists, and sexy girls next door.

“SeekingArrangement.com has been wildly successful as a sugar daddy and sugar baby online meeting playground since it was launched a few years ago” says Brandon Wade, founder and CEO of the website. “The Seeking Arrangement party will allow the rich and beautiful an exclusive venue to meet face-to-face with hundreds of like-minded individuals in an evening that promises to be discreet, playful and sensual.”

For more information, and to purchase tickets to this event, please visit the sugar daddy party website: SeekingArrangementParty.com

EVENT DETAILS:

Location: New York City, NY
Venue: Merchants NY: Merchants East
Time: Doors open at 6:00PM

 

    • Complimentary sugar baby champagne meet & greet at 6:00 PM

 

  • Complimentary full-size gourmet hors d’Oeuveres

 

 

  • Full premium cash bar – all top shelf liquors

 

 

  • Restaurant with full dinner menu

 

 

  • Cigar bar with cigar maker

 

 

  • Live music and entertainment

 

 

  • Cinco De Mayo drink specials at 12AM

 

TICKET PRICES:

Tickets for Men (Sugar Daddy):

  • $70 (purchased online)

 

 

  • $100 at the door

 

Tickets for Ladies (Sugar Babies):

  • $25 (online & at the door)

 

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OneLegUp: A Big Legdown!

If you're looking for a party where your date is attacked and mobbed by hostesses and go-go dancers looking for their next kill and you're left shocked by what just happened, OneLegUpNYC may have just that evening well planned for you.

 

There's lots of swing parties in Manhattan these days, but few claim to be that power-sexed and exclusive as OneLegUpNYC, a club-with-no-fixed-address, floated by a plump 40-something who calls herself Palagia (shown above). The outfit throws monthly "take out" and "eat in" parties for couples- and females-only and she goes a long way to emphasize that her parties are very upscale and not just for anybody.

 

Our team that tried two of her parties recently however came up a little short on that experience.

 

At two take-out parties (which ostensibly means you meet couples and then if sparks fly you get lucky and escort them to your home or a hotel) our team recently attended, we found couples few and far between from the image that Palagia had us present. 

 

Both parties were sparsely attended, even though Palagia claimed that "the action really doesn't get heated up" till later, by which she meant closer to closing time which is like 4 a.m. Well our team certainly didn't stick around that long because of "incense fatigue" as they called it. The party area was so heavily decked out with incense sticks burning everywhere that it cast a spell on our team which was comatose with eyes pierced – at the ceiling – waiting for some action to begin. Apparently, there was a hottub somewhere in the club, but we missed it!

 

The second party had fewer than a dozen couples and the space was too large which made things spread a bit too thin. And most of the sparse couples already seemed to know each other (a couple from DC was a regular bringing a retinue and not really mingling with other couples) which made carousing all that difficult. 

 

The highlight of the evening was a communal body rub – a la dirty dancing – with no free for all to follow. It was mostly gyrations – with pasties. Like a rite of passage of sorts.

 

And if you were not amused by that, you were being reminded by every other non-couple female in attendance that business was a pleasure. Our team got solicited by a woman trying to launch her body paint business, a Brazilian peddling her lingerie collection, and male and female lap dancers with see-through side pockets that could hold a twenty dollar bill, the going rate for a show. And of course it was cash bar.

 

This group charges an inordinate amount of money to join ($350) plus you have to pay closer to $100 each time you get invited to her parties. And you can't bring your own drinks which sucks because the club drinks are not cheap. So the question remains: Why would one pay so much money to belong to a group when you can go to any other swing club in town for a lot less and BYOB – not to mention that you have a lot more to pick from. (By the way, many local swing clubs have started to drop their attendance prices due to the recession).

 

From the team's two visits and gleaning by conversations with couples, this group is for the faint-hearted, the one's that tip-toe into the world of swing, or as they called it, soft swapping. A lot of kissing and huffing and puffing – but nothing beyond. 

 

At some parties you have to keep an eye on your drink. But here you may have to keep an eye on your date. If a friendly hostess starts chatting her up, or asks her if she wants to go to the rest room, or totally ignores you but has her tongue up your date's throat, you know someone is going to be a sore loser (meaning you) and someone a sore winner (your date). Only you won't be there to share the good times and the group may just be pulling your leg (down not up).

 

We'd keep our legs firmly in place for this group. Two thumbs-down.

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Red Carpet Screening of Edward Norton’s New Film on March 25

New York Red Carpet Screening: Leaves of Grass

Thursday, March 25, 2010

07:30PM

Sunshine Cinema 143 East Houston Street (at Eldridge Street)  New York, NY

After-Party: LEVANT EAST at THOR The Hotel on Rivington 107 Rivington Street (between Ludlow and Essex) 10:00-Midnight Gen Art invites you to the red carpet screening and after-party for “Leaves of Grass” directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Tim Blake Nelson, Melanie Lynskey, withRichard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon. * Ed Norton and Tim Blake Nelson are confirmed to attend.  Others expected.

This special screening is a part of the celebration of the15th Anniversary of the Gen Art Film Festival.  Tim Blake Nelson’s debut feature film “Eye of God” opened the 2nd annual Gen Art Film Festival in 1997 at a capacity filled New York Premiere. Tim has gone on to direct, and act, in many highly acclaimed films.  Gen Art is proud to be able to continue to work with and support great cinematic talent such a Tim.

At the after-party, complimentary beverages will be provided by Stella Artois & Menage a Trois wines. Synopsis: When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady (both played by two-time Academy Award® nominee Edward Norton), in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of Northeastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother’s death are greatly exaggerated, and he’s soon caught up in the dangerous and unpredictable world of drug commerce in the backwaters of the Southwest.

In the process, he reconnects with his eccentric mother (Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon), meets a wise and educated young woman who has bypassed academia in favor of the gentler rhythms of life (Keri Russell), and unwittingly helps his troubled brother settle a score with a pernicious drug lord (Academy Award® winner Richard Dreyfuss) who uses Tulsa, Oklahoma’s small Jewish community for cover.

Leaves of Grass follows a twisting narrative path merging crime drama, drug comedy, classical philosophy and sudden violence in pursuit of answering one of humanity’s oldest questions: What does it truly mean to live a happy and constructive lifeä

Leaves of Grass hits theaters on Friday, April 2nd. For more info on the film.

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Club Review: Brooklyn's Newest Swing Club Picks Up Where Club Casbar Left Off

Brooklynites have bitched and moaned – literally – after authorities shut down Club Casbar almost exactly a year ago when the New York Times ran a pictorial and long-winded essay on the on-premise club and local authorities used a vague sex ordinance that prohibits unprotected and anal sex soon thereafter to shut it down.

 

However, to the rescue come Jack and Jill, a well-known local swing couple that has routinely hosted both on- and off-premise parties in Manhattan, under the name of Adult Socials Lounge. The couple held a grand opening of a new on-premise swinger club near the intersections of Broad Street and Atlantic Avenue last weekend – and judging by the loyal outpouring, the club, called Club Amantes, reportedly is a runaway success with dozens of singles and couples frolicking to the new hideout.

 

Friday night was open to single men and couples – and as expected – the place was reportedly packed with single men oglers willing to pay 0 cover charge to attend (the first weekend attendees got free membership to the club for a year – priced individually at ) co-mingling with obliging couples. The ratio of single men to couples was reportedly healthy and not too overbearing for the club and the evening passed off without any incidents – except of the wild kind of course.

 

Saturday night was reportedly slower – or looked slower – sans the crowd of single men but the wide variety of various ethnic couples made the place a saucy and spicy place where variety was the spice of life. As expected, more black couples than usual were in the house, and there were some 'repeat offenders' from the night prior that came for sloppy seconds.

 

More about the place: It is hard to find (which could be a good thing) among the rough and tumble that is so desolate about Brooklyn and the only drawback is that you cannot walk to and from the Subway which is a long haul and not recommended in the area that could look a bit out of a Michael Jackson 'Thriller' album!

 

However, there are plenty of private cabs that are available should one travel on the Subway (Atlantic Avenue) but we suggest carrying phone numbers of some cab companies or private sedans that could be ready to whisk you away to the subway ( one way). For those who drive, there is plenty of parking in the area though one would hesitate to drive up in a Benz.

 

The inside of the club has been extensively redone (it used to host private adult parties before J&J took over the reins) and those who had attended parties there before reportedly expressed satisfaction at the renovations. As soon as you walk through the security entryway, there is a bar to the right and a dance floor beckons you. But you have to walk through the dance floor and the carousing couples perched in love seats to get to the coat check. Once you are done with that chore, the ushers and the club staff are extremely friendly and polite and will show you around the club and do all they can to make you comfortable. Jill is the one who has the requisite social graces to make this place shine not to mention the various stages of dress (or undress) you get to see her as the night progresses! She's also known to partake in some of the action – be it girl-on-girl or a select couple or gent who may fancy her calling. She does put on quite a show is what we were told! And the source was first-hand!

 

There is a bar right at the very entrance and the bartendress is one of the nicest and politest girls in the biz you will ever meet. She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver! Of course, the night is BYOB but the club does sell some hi-energy drinks by the can and offers free juices.

 

There are two sets of tiny bathrooms and one very small shower but that didn't seem to pose much of a hurdle as most of the action was in the playrooms beyond the dance floor and the snacks tables.

 

There are four private rooms cordoned by light see-through curtains and three large public play areas and enough sitting room around the place. There is also a smoking room.

 

The club is comfortable and cozy and can be a great romantic place for couples that want to re-connect  – with each other or other couples they may have met before or just laid their eyes on.

 

Did we just say laid?

 

Have fun.

 

[Check out the club's website at http://www.clubamantes.com.]

 

 

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