Email Scan: A New Turntable

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FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: The Ion Audio TTUSB10 turntable
MESSAGE: A turntable that helps you convert vinyl to MP3s or CDs.

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FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: Restaurant Back Forty (190 Ave B at 12th St, 212-388-1990) from Peter Hoffman of Savoy is now open, The Royalton's Brasserie 44 (44 W 44th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves, 212-944-8844) is opening next week, The Cancer Vixen fund is sponsoring free mammograms on Friday from 8:30am to 4pm at St. Vincent's Cancer Center (325 W 15th St between Eighth and Ninth Aves, 212-604-6009), and you can donate Halloween costumes for hospitalized kids through October 28th at the Four Points by Sheridan (160 W 25th St between Sixth and Seventh Aves, 800-368-7764).

FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: The Fall Kids Festival is at Madison Square Park (25th St and Madison Ave, 212-538-9310) on Saturday from 10am to 3pm, you can watch musical Polly Princess and the Penniless Fry Cook on Saturday at 1 and 3pm at the Impact Theater (190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn; 845-797-1320), storyteller Tom Lee is hosting a family workshop on Saturday from 2 to 2:30pm at The Museum of Biblical Art (1865 Broadway at 61st St, 212-408-1500), there's a dog costume competition at Carl Schurz Park (East End Ave and 86th St) on Sunday from 1 to 3pm, and the Bari Koral Band is performing on Saturday at noon at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, 212-614-0505).