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A couple new restaurants to tickle your fancy..

Since one of the best parts of living in the New York City is all of the amazing restaurants all over the area. I have a couple restaurants that are just opening and definitely worth checking out this weekend!

Zoe Townhouse- From Thalia and Stephen Lofredo the people that brought you the delicious SOHO restaurant Zoe restaurant is this brand new bar/ cafe serving up some delicious contemporary American, California cuisine, as well as the recent opening of their Pizza bar. RSVP is definately recommended for this fine restaurant!

Zoe Townhouse
135 E 62nd Street
New York, NY 10065
more info: Click Here

Borough Food & Drink

Jeffrey Chodorow's new place he's opening with Zak Pelaccio is called Borough Food and Drink and it'll be a Best-of NY marketplace and restaurant. The best cured meats, perogies and other 'artisan products' from all corners of the five boroughs will be sold at retail and used in dishes the restaurant offers during meal services. Also many of the wines and spirits come from New York State. So If you are looking for a full New York state experience along with all the delicious food that the boroughs has to offer, this is the place for you!

Borough Food & Drink
12 East 22nd St
New York, NY 10010
More info: Click Here

Wines of South America Tasting

The Wine Workshop Presents Best of South America
Join the wine workshop for a mouth-watering cross section of the top superstars of Chile and Argentina.
$135 - 7:00pm
The Warwick Hotel
65 West 54th Street
Reserve a ticket at LocalWineEvents.com

Les Savy Ceviche

7-9PM
Tim Harrington Does Ceviche
@ The Brooklyn Kitchen
616 Lorimer
Williamsburg, BK
718-389-2982

To celebrate the release of Kara Zuaro's new book, I Like Food, Food Tastes Good, The Brooklyn Kitchen is hosting live in-store cooking demos with local rock stars who love to cook and eat. This evening it's Tim Harrington, front man for Les Savy Fav. Tim will be bringing the knowledge of ceviche. While you're there you can pick up some Deadly Squire aprons, oven mitts and potholders that they sell at the store.

Strategize Your Kitchen

6:30-8:30PM
Strategize Your Kitchen
@ Broadway Panhandler
65 E 8th St b/w Broadway & University
$25

Sip on champagne cocktails while learning how to pimp your kitchen and turn out an awesome little party at Broadway Panhandler this evening.

Cupcake Cookoff 2007

6:30PM
Cupcake Cookoff 2007
@ The Brooklyn Kitchen
616 Lorimer St
Williamsburg, BK
718-389-2982

It's kind of like a dog show, where you can eat the dogs, and the dogs are cupcakes. Participants bring cupcakes to be judged in one of three categories (Plain & Simple, Additions, Decorator's Delight) by "celebrity cupcake judges". All attendants vote for Best in Show. Then you eat cupcakes.

Viral Confections Tasting

7PM
Caitlin Berrigan presents: Viral Confections
@ Dorkbot
26 Greene b/w Canal & Grand

And I quote: "These delicious truffles do not carry hepatitis C."

Cognac Tesseron

5-7PM
Extraordinary Tasting: Cognac Tesseron
@ Bottlerocket Wine and Spirit
5 W 19th St
212-929-2323
Free

If Courvoisier is too pedestrian for you, check out some luxury cognacs while grabbing your pre-game potables at Bottlerocket this afternoon.

Kosher ChiXXX

9PM
Kosher ChiXXX Passover Style: Get Liberated!
@ Mo Pitkin ’s House of Satisfaction
34 Ave A b/w 2nd & 3rd Sts
$10

Passover. Themed. Burlesque. Revue.

Burgermania 2007

6-8PM
Burgermania 2007
@ The Brooklyn Kitchen
616 Lorimer St
Williamsburg, BK
713-389-2982
$50, pre-registration required!
BYOK (Bring your own Knife)

It's burger season! Whoops, I forgot, you're always showing everyone up with your fancy cooking - it's salmon dill burger season. Learn how to cook this and more at The Brooklyn Kitchen's Burgermania 2007 cooking class tonight, but remember to call ahead! Classes fill up fast.

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]

African Diaspora Film Festival

2PM, 4:30PM, 6:50PM, 9:15PM
The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY
718-636-4100
$10 per film

Catch the best films produced by the African diaspora - films produced by artists of African descent - at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through February 21st. This afternoon enjoy beautiful films about the Masai of Kenya, one of the seminal figures in the postcolonial studies, the 19th century Malcolm X, the legal implications of reparations or a young boy's journey to literacy. All films are with English subtitles or in English. A party follows the last film of the day. Read more on the film festival here.

Lunar New Year Flower Market

120AM-6PM
Lunar New Year Flower Market
@ Columbus Park
Mulberry St b/w Bayard and Worth
Free

When is a flower market not only a flower market? When it's the annual Lunar New Year Flower Market! Chinese families purchase auspicious flowers to decorate their homes before the new year to ensure that the families' prosperity and fortune will bloom along with the flowers in the Year of the Pig. Joining in the preparations will be performers - magicians, fortune tellers, dancers, pop and opera singers. Don't miss this!

Chinese New Year Spectacular

11AM, 8PM
Chinese New Year Spectacular: Myths and Legends
@ Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue
English: 1-888-260-6221
Chinese: 1-888-260-6223
$38-$180

From the NTDTV website: "New Tang Dynasty Dynasty Television Senior Vice President Samuel Zhou says, 'Ever since it entered into China, the CCP has wanted to wipe out Chinese traditional belief systems and replace them with Marxist and Maoist ideology. That’s the only way the leadership can maintain control over the Chinese people. They’re out to destroy a lot of things that are actually quite good.' Zhou quips: 'I think the CCP’s really upset because this year’s show is more than good–it’s great!'"

Steam Up Valentine's

8PM-1AM
Steam Up Valentine’s Night
@ Russian and Turkish Baths
268 E 10th St b/w 1st St and Ave A
212-473-8806
212-674-9250
$50

Just sweat it out, babies - it's the second-annual dance party at the legendary Russian & Turkish Baths! Whether single or coupled, straight or gay, you can have the most memorable Valentine’s night of your life as you soak in the steam baths, dance to gypsy music, drink free vodka and eat free pierogies!

Japanese Contemporary Dance

7:30PM
Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase
@ Joyce Theatre
175 Eighth Ave at 19th St
212-242-0800
$30

The Joyce Theater celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase in New York. This season features four of the most popular and talented companies from prior showcases and Japan's current dance scene.

Jello Wrestling

8PM
Amateur Jello Wrestling
@ Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton St
212-995-1652
Free for wrestlers, $3 for non-wrestling women, $7 for men accompanied by women, $15 for single men.

Folds-Up Folding Bike Ride

2PM
Folds-Up Folding Bike Ride
@ West 23rd St on the Hudson River Greenway
Free

F.I.T. Style

12-6PM
F.I.T. Style Mart
@ F.I.T.
E. Reeves Great Hall
7th Ave at West 28th St
718-501-1349

Twenty-two student designers were selected to sell their creations.

Ebony Presents Hollywood in Harlem

6PM Harlem Week's Ebony Presents Hollywood in Harlem panel discussion screening on Books to Film; The Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd.,
@ 135th Street.

Elizabeth Street

Elizabeth Street

Blue . Bag 266 Elizabeth Street TEL : 212-966-8566
Great Bags for the ladies. 11AM-6PM

Goferedo Fantini 248 Elizabeth Street 212-219-1501
FLY SHOES for MEN & WOMEN Gofreredo has the fliest shoes
from Europe.

Pillow Talk: Mogu 258 Elizabeth StreetT 212-625-2444 / 2443 Fax
All I can say Is that FLY ASS PILLOWS!

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Yeah!!!

10PM Thursdays @ Ruby Falls
609 W 29th St. 10/11th Ave. 1.212-643-6464

YEAH!!!!!!!!!! Just like Lil' Jon Would say.
SMAC ENT. Has done it again. VERY SEXY
And The ladies OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(this is the first missive from our new NYC flavors editor JS
who will be bringing some well, flavor with a series of posts
and sms blasts with a exclusive urban lifestyle editorial focus.)

(nice cross over move on alt.indy band !!! -ed)