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Email Scan: Trash Cans And Button Downs

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We scan the inbox so you don't have to. Today, two items of note:

FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: Oxo Good Grips Angle Can
MESSAGE: A sleek white trash can, available at J&R, that looks like it could have been designed by Apple. And that's a good thing, because these days, everything Apple touches turns to gold. Gold!

FROM: Thrillist
SUBJECT: Wolf-Rayet
MESSAGE: Shirts from Seize Sur Vingt that are perfect for nights out; the line is available at their Nolita shop (267 Elizabeth St between Houston and Prince Sts, 212-343-0007).
DISCARDED: "sidle bar-ward in your office button-down and look like a cubicle escapee, or throw on a "club shirt", and look like a disco ball snuck into the matter transmogrifier with you"

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FROM: Juli B
SUBJECT: August picks
MESSAGE: Two of the new limited-edition Bottega Veneta Forgessa Maxi bags have landed in NYC, pre-orders for Steamline luggage are now being taken, there are only 10 limited-edition Jaguar XKR's in NYC, the Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi exhibit will be on view at the Noguchi Museum (32-37 Vernon Blvd, 718-204-7088) in LIC in September, and Thom Browne's Black Fleece collection for Brooks Brothers will be in stores soon.

FROM: RareDaily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: The Town Tavern's (134 W 3rd St at MacDougal St, 212-253-6955) Long Island & Jersey Girl Appreciation Night is tonight from 7 to 10pm, cafe Sanctuary T (337B West Broadway at Grand St, 212-941-7832) is open in Soho, Rosa Mexicano's Ice Cream Festival is taking place through September 4th, and Amalia (204 W 55th St at Broadway, 212-254-1234) is hosting a La Tomatina Festival with special tomato dishes from August 29th through September 1st.

FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: There will be a giant sand Mandala at the Rubin Museum of Art (150 W 17th St at Seventh Ave, 212-620-5000) through September 3rd, a blogger-hosted charity-fundraising party featuring nine bands is taking place on Saturday at 1pm at Studio B (257 Banker St between Meserole Ave and Calyer St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn; 718-389-1880), local musicians jam for charity on Sunday from 7:30 to 9:30pm at The Living Room (154 Ludlow St between Rivington and Stanton Sts, 212-533-7235), and Nuevo Mexican restaurant Toloache (251 W 50th St between Broadway and Eighth Ave, 212-581-1818) opens today in the Theater District.

FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: There's a screening of the animated film Madagascar at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park on Friday at 8pm, a dance party is taking place on Thursday at 6pm in Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Brooklyn Children's Museum's fall fun party takes place on Friday from 11am to 2pm, there's a dinosaur event at the Scholastic Store (557 Broadway between Prince and Spring Sts, 212-343-6166) on Saturday at 3pm, and you can board the Ambrose lightship currently docked at the South Street Seaport for a book reading on Sunday from 1 to 4pm.