BEEN AROUND THE WORLD: NYC
WHATS UP WHATS UP WHATS UP WORLD!
First of all, thanx to everyone who came out to our Cinco de Mayo party earlier this month! There was a fucking line down 19th st. to get into Beauty Bar… wtf?! We’ve never seen anything like that! The place was packed and bumping and wonderfully drenched in tequila. Yes, some rando chick with a chip on her shoulder threw a drink at us (we’ve never seen this girl before in our life!), but that kinda made it all the more awesome. Thanx Richie Panic for having us! Lets do it again soon!!
So, we are fresh off our trip to NYC and still reeling from how loco it was. It started out when Tiny Bones flew in at midnight on Friday to meet Emily Betty, who’d already been there for a few days flying solo. Not to hyperbolize or anything, but the reunion (and the rest of the trip for that matter) kinda went a little like this:
Our SF homegirl Cait Garvey was in town too, so the three of us teamed up and set out on a crash course in NYC nightlife: a rooftop house party at Ludlow & Rivington, the Girls & Boys party @ Webster Hall, a rock n roll party at Black & White where we were surprised to find one of our friends DJing, an underground (literally) dance party at Submercer. We ended up at 4am barely getting into Lit to meet up with our friends, before crashing the Redbull Loft (wtf was that place?) for the afterparty that we apparently left too early (despite the sun having already come up). Woah. Good first night.
Saturday night we found ourselves having a way-too-late-dinner at Fatty Cue in Brooklyn before going to one of our favorite NYC parties, FIXED! We left Fixed just in time to make a pitstop at our new favorite east-coast tiki bar, Painkiller (west coast fave: Smugglers Cove, obvs), before rushing over Panda to meet up with our friend Prince Terrence and his crew of graffiti artist friends. Here we met Mike aka - Mint, graffiti artist extraordinaire and 1/2 of the graffiti duo MERF (check out their website/logo here: www.mintandserf.com, the SVU reference is kind of blowing our minds). Mike herded the four of us (as we were now joined by our friend Shannon, former SF resident and current Jean-Georges pastry chef) into a cab to whisk us away to an afterparty in the west village. Along the way he told us about his stint in jail in SF, and offered his sociological explanation as to why San Francisco and New York are the best cities ever. Needless to say, we instantly fell in love with him.
We’ll finish the rest of our NYC re-cap later, but in the meantime… ladies & gentlemen, we give you… MINT!!!!
XOXO
TB & EB

