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New York<br />
NEW YORK<br />
GO SHOP<br />
THE MARKET NYC<br />
268 Mulberry St • no phone<br />
themarketnyc.com<br />
This weekend market, frequently referred to<br />
as “the young designers market,” is an indoor<br />
fair known for harboring up-and-coming<br />
design talent. That means you’re guaranteed<br />
to fi nd items straight from the designers (each<br />
set up in a 5-foot-by-7-foot booth), including<br />
“upcycled” blazers, dresses, purses, screenprinted<br />
tees, jewelry made from old records<br />
and fl ashy belt buckles.<br />
POSMAN BOOKS<br />
At Chelsea Market<br />
75 Ninth Ave • 212-627-0304<br />
posmanbooks.com<br />
This second location of the independent<br />
bookstore has much in common with its<br />
older sibling: The selection is unbiased, yet<br />
discriminating, the workers are self-described<br />
“book people,” and the hilarious, edgy<br />
greeting cards sets it apart from any other<br />
bookstore in the city. What’s more, there are<br />
monthly author readings and weekly children’s<br />
story hours on Sundays.<br />
GO SEE<br />
STEVE COHEN CHAMBER MAGIC<br />
At the Waldorf=Astoria<br />
100 E 50th St • 866-811-4111<br />
chambermagic.com<br />
Steve Cohen, the Millionaires’ Magician,<br />
performs old-time parlor magic, the kind of<br />
up-close maneuvers using common objects—<br />
mostly decks of cards—that are unbelievable<br />
because they happen right before your eyes.<br />
Dress to the nines, and head to this classy<br />
hotel, where Cohen will wow you with card<br />
tricks, mind reading and his signature trick,<br />
Think-a-Drink, in which he pours drinks of<br />
the audience’s choosing from a single,<br />
mysterious kettle. See website for schedule.<br />
DEAD APPLE TOURS<br />
From the Empire State Building<br />
350 Fifth Ave • 888-557-1313<br />
deadappletours.com<br />
A lot of people live in New York and,<br />
consequently, a lot of people die here. Native<br />
New Yorker Drew Raphael has seized upon this<br />
fact, offering “the living history of New York’s<br />
deceased.” Riding in back (but not the very<br />
back) of “Desdemona,” a plush 478 Cadillac<br />
Superior Crown Royale hearse, you’ll see the<br />
sites of some of New York’s most famous<br />
deaths, from mobster Joseph “Crazy Joe” Gallo<br />
to Founding Father Thomas Paine.<br />
GO MAGAZINE OCTOBER <strong>2010</strong><br />
— Peter Koch<br />
AU NATURALE BY RACHEL ROHINSKY<br />
Horsehair,<br />
bones, dried insects and<br />
weasel skulls—these<br />
sound more like ingredients<br />
for a witch’s brew<br />
than the stuff of high art.<br />
But the Dead or Alive<br />
exhibit features more<br />
than 30 international<br />
artists who’ve turned<br />
these and other organic<br />
materials—all of them<br />
once produced by or part<br />
of living organisms—into<br />
intricately constructed,<br />
hauntingly beautiful<br />
sculptures and installations.<br />
Their aim is to<br />
BROOKLYN BREWERY TOURS<br />
79 N 11th St, Brooklyn • 718-486-7422<br />
brooklynbrewery.com<br />
Brooklyn Brewery hosts free tours on the hour<br />
every weekend afternoon, and on Fridays it<br />
offers a happy hour, where guests pile into the<br />
tasting room and enjoy seasonal brews and old<br />
favorites while playing cards and board games.<br />
GO EAT<br />
SOUTH HOUSTON<br />
331 W Broadway • 212-431-0131<br />
southhoustonnyc.com<br />
There’s nothing formal about this newly minted<br />
Southern food joint, where the back wall is<br />
a chalkboard and full-length windows offer<br />
diners a view of a busy SoHo intersection.<br />
Warm up with the crisp, delectable cornmealcrusted<br />
calamari (served with a zesty chipotle<br />
cream), then try the signature chicken and<br />
waffl es, sweetened how you like it with maple<br />
syrup or peach Amaretto syrup. $$<br />
PERBACCO<br />
234 E Fourth St • 212-253-2038<br />
perbacconyc.com<br />
The traditional rustic décor—exposed brick<br />
walls and rough-cut dark wood furniture—<br />
at this tiny East Village osteria belies the<br />
strike emotion in viewers,<br />
addressing the transience<br />
of life and beauty of<br />
the natural world. From<br />
Sanford Biggers’ “Ghettobird<br />
Tunic,” made with<br />
exotic bird feathers, to Levi<br />
van Veluw’s self-portrait<br />
landscapes produced with<br />
diorama materials (pictured),<br />
this art will surprise<br />
you. Through Oct. 24.<br />
Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art<br />
At the Museum of Arts and Design<br />
2 Columbus Cir • 212-299-7777<br />
madmuseum.org<br />
experimentation that’s happening in the<br />
kitchen. Young chef Simone Bonelli<br />
takes traditional Northern Italian fare and turns<br />
it on its head. Take the ravioli stuffed with aged<br />
prosciutto, Mascarpone and dried cantaloupe<br />
and sautéed in a mint butter sauce. $$$$<br />
GO PARTY<br />
BARBÉS<br />
376 Ninth St, Brooklyn • 347-422-0248<br />
barbesbrooklyn.com<br />
Sure, this Park Slope spot has a full line<br />
of microbrews on tap, top-shelf liquor<br />
(specializing in single malt scotch, with<br />
more than 20 available) and decent wines,<br />
but that’s not what draws the crowds to this<br />
intimate, energetic space. Rather, it’s the live<br />
bands that play two times a night, six nights<br />
a week—which make the audience dance and<br />
sway to the beats of gypsy jazz, folk rock, Afro-<br />
Peruvian and other eclectic musical genres.<br />
FUN FACT!<br />
In 1993, Staten Islanders voted two-to-one to<br />
secede from New York City. The action failed<br />
because state offi cials wouldn’t grant them<br />
permission to form their own city without the<br />
Big Apple’s consent.<br />
COURTESY OF RONMANDOS GALLERY, AMSTERDAM
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