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For all you NYC Cocktail Connoiseurs...

Ever been to a bar the size of a football field? Welcome to The New York Bar Show - the largest trade event for bar, clubs, and restaurants. Don't worry. You don't need to be in the bar business to enjoy this event as there will be plenty of spirit, beer, wine and food samplings to keep you happy. Other entertainment includes a cocktail contest where the winner goes to France for finals and the Big Apple Showdown Flair bartending competition. Cheers!

The New York Bar Show
Doors Open at Noon / $25 - $35
Sun. June 10 - Mon. June 11
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th St

Bringing the Building Blogosphere to Life

Postopolis!
at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Tuesday, May 29, to Saturday, June 2, 2007
97 Kenmare Street
Telephone 212.431.5795
Fax 212.431.5755
Email info@storefrontnews.org
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Closed Sunday and Monday

Featuring
BLDGBLOG (Los Angeles), City of Sound (London), Inhabitat (New York), and Subtopia (San Francisco)

Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers, from four different cities, will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face to face interaction.

@ The Javits Center

10AM

International Contemporary Furniture Fair
The Jacob Javits Center

International Contemporary Furniture Fair (Final Day)

National Stationery Show

Tattoo convention

4 p.m. to midnight

Tattoo convention; Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St.

NYTimes Travel Show

10AM-7PM
New York Times Travel Show
@ Jacob Javits Convention Center
11th Ave b/w 34th and 39th St
$15

Can't get into the sold-out New York Comic Convention? Fuck New York, anyway. You're already at Jacob Javits Convention Center in fucking midtown, so you might as well drop fifteen bucks for the New York Times Travel Show and figure out a way to get the fuck out of dodge. Shit. [Fair also open tomorrow, February 25th, from 10AM-5PM]

2007 Comic Con

4PM-9PM
New York Comic Convention
@ Jacob Javits Center
11th Ave b/w 34th and 39th St
$30 one-day advance, $40 day-of
4:30 meet Stephen Colbert

Sure, Saturday and Monday are sold out - but the Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert shows up on Friday @ 4:30PM! Sweet! Plus meet comic Stan Lee all day, and snatch up some copies of Lost Magazine at the show store at 4PM.

Dog Show!

8:30AM-6PM
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
@ Madison Square Garden
Seventh Ave at 32nd St
212-307-7171
$40

If you're one of those people who have to stop on the street to make baby sounds at every dog you pass by, then I probably don't need to tell you that the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is going down at Madison Square Garden through February 13th. For the rest of you - it is.

Comic Con/Zombie Survival Guide

10am-7pm
@ Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Ave at 33rd St
201-861-1414
Fr-ree

Tell me you don't want to go see angsty kids dressed up like Wonder Woman, Soupy Sales, Cochise from The Warriors - honestly, this list is ridiculous. If you want to have an entire high school experience in one day, hop across the street for the New York Titans LAX game when you're done here.

Tokion magazine's 2005 Creativity Now Conference

October 15 and 16
Cooper Union in New York City
Third Annual Creativity Now Conference
Twenty-six toweringly influential figures from the fields of art, music, advertising, journalism, film and TV will descend on Manhattan’s Cooper Union for this two day event, hosted by Tokion Magazine, a genre-defying publication focusing on creative individuals from all walks of life.