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Best Bets Daily: An alarm clock that displays local weather forecasts (pictured)
Brooklyn Based: Artist Robert Mars' paintings of Coney Island
DailyCandy: Banksy exhibition in Chelsea, a spirits auction at Christie’s
DailyCandy Kids: not updated
Juli B: Lingerie store Journelle, opening Friday
MUG: A talk about Hunter S. Thompson at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, Georges Seurat exhibition at MoMA
RareDaily: West Village bar Le Royale opening Saturday, THECAST's new LES boutique
Refinery29: not updated
Thrillist: The new AC Gears store on E 8th Street, opening Saturday
UrbanBaby Daily: A craft fair in Hoboken, "Santa" pays shop ModernTots a visit
VSL: Animated film Persepolis based on the graphic novel of the same name