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FROM: Thrillist
SUBJECT: Otabo Custom Footwear (1 West St at Battery Park Pl, suite 100; call
646-274-1306 for appointments)
MESSAGE: Made-to-order leather shoes
DISCARDED: "While remorseless technology helped Robocop clean up Detroit, without his underlying humanity, he never would've outmaneuvered the even more remorseless Dick Jones," "they'll soon consign craftsmen to a life of flipping soylent greenburgers"
FROM: Wingman Daily
SUBJECT: Ready Freddy backpacks
MESSAGE: Backpacks stuffed with everything you'd need to survive a catastrophe, available online at Ready Freddy.
FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: Key caps
MESSAGE: Playful monkey key caps, available at Patina, help you tell the difference between keys.
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FROM: Juli B
SUBJECT: Beauty picks
MESSAGE: Watsu flow massage at Cornelia Spa, the Star 50 Creve Coeur clutch at Ebags, the Holly Golightly sleep mask at Fred Flare, Ohm Spa wine tastings on Wednesdays from 3 to 7pm, healing neem and aloe vera tonic water mist from Sundari, and the Duwop eyes portable pallet from Sephora
FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide of reading events
MESSAGE: Bookish events at the Bryant Park Reading Room (42nd St between the NYPL and Sixth Ave, 212-768-4242) on Saturday June 23rd from noon to 1pm, a reading at Books of Wonder (18 W 18th St, 212-989-3270) on Sunday June 24th from noon to 1pm, CelebrateStory performances at the Hans Christian Anderson Statue in Central Park and the 76th Street Playground on Saturday from 11am to 5pm, and storytelling by Lou Del Bianco on Saturday June 23rd at 10 and 11:30am at the Players Theater (115 MacDougal St, 212-352-3101)
FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: Gerald Laing exhibition of at the Mary Ryan Gallery (527 W 26th St between Tenth and Eleventh Aves, 212-397-0669) through August 3rd, cheese eating contest in front of Smith & Vine (268 Smith St between Sackett and Degraw Sts, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn;718-243-2864; register at 718-522-7425) on Sunday at 2pm, and the Wiimbeldon Tennis Tournament
FROM: RareDaily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: Noodle parlor Ramen Setagaya (141 First Ave at E 9th St, 212-529-2740) opens today, the corporate beer pong challenge at Village Pourhouse (64 Third Ave at E 11th St, 212-228-4200), a sake tasting at Kyotofu (705 Ninth Ave between 48th and 49th Sts, 212-974-6012) on Monday at 6:30pm, Turntables on the Hudson at Hiro (371 W 16th St nr Ninth Ave, 212-727-0212) on Friday at 11:30pm, and 2 for 1 happy hour at Max Brenner (141 Second Ave at E 9th St, 212-388-0030) Mondays through Fridays from 4 to 8pm