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FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: A champagne flute
MESSAGE: This glass, available online, keeps your beverage cool.
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FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Borough Food & Drink (12 E 22nd St between Broadway and Park Ave, 212-260-0103)
MESSAGE: Jeffrey Chodorow and Zak Pelaccio's eatery
DISCARDED: "The new restaurant and market, opening tomorrow in the old Caviar & Banana space (hex broken!)," "ack, hunger pains are blinding"
FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (97 Commercial St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 718-349-2506
MESSAGE: Second outpost of the Dumbo-based ice cream shop
FROM: Thrillist
SUBJECT: Mid-week list
MESSAGE: Thai Select (472 Ninth Ave between 36th and 37th Sts, 212-695-9920), Radio Free Steve showing at 7:30 and 10pm at MonkeyTown (58 N 3rd St between Wythe and Kent Sts, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), USQ (140 Fourth Ave at 13th St) Free Wine Tasting on Saturday from 2 to 5pm, S'MAC (345 E 12th St between First and Second Aves, 212-358-7912) Birthday Deal (nosh-sized portions are only a buck) on June 26th, Smith Street Fair (Smith St from Bergen to Union) on Sunday from 11am to 6pm
FROM: VSL
SUBJECT: The work of photographer Chris Jordan
MESSAGE: "By compiling thousands of small pictures into large, seamless images of disposable goods, he’s created elegant, monumental depictions of staggering excess."