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pen and pencil club

you’ll have to schmooze your way in since it’s members only but they’ve got free hot dog. fun crowd, all industry, rlly old school

@lyssgia

Mar 1, 2024

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shameless Self promotion

if ur in nyc and looking for a collaborative shared studio / event space, my friends and i are starting up the cutest space in bushwick (fr cute) and gathering general membership ($325/mo) for it right now!!! pls dm me on ig if ur interested @p_pat00tie

@p_pat00tie

Jan 26, 2024

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Kaleidoscope studios in bk

Kaleidoscope is a really dope space that you can rent for studio space or community events. They also post about all the events they host so you can just pull up and experience something new & cool! Steph and I hosted a screening there earlier in the summer and genuinely met some great people & made some true friends :')

@luckymilk

Sep 30, 2024

Top Recs from @nate-freeman

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This insanely over-the-top “Gossip Girl”-themed bar in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Mexico City

I was walking to Chris Sharp’s fantastic Mexico City gallery Lulu in April 2021 when I came across a bar wall-to-wall devoted to the series Gossip Girl, which ran on the CW from 2007 to 2012. This was surprising, to say the least. Here, in the suburban sprawl south of Roma, all of a sudden there’s an obsessive shrine to a show that has nothing whatsoever to do with Mexico City, an otherwise unremarkable watering hole inexplicably plastered with images of Blair, Serena, Nate, Chuck and Dan. “YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME XOXO” is written on the walls and the mirrors. On Gossip Girl, Lily van der Woodsen has hanging in her apartment an Elmgreen & Dragset work related to their installation Prada Marfa—lo and behold, this insane CDMX establishment has a copy of that exact work hanging framed on the wall. The whole thing had me convinced I was having some kind of a psychotic episode, especially after no one believed me when I told them about it later on during Friday lunch at Contramar. But actually the place has a pretty legit Instagram presence, so I guess it’s real. It’s called Serenna, spelled like that. Just incredible.

@nate-freeman

Jan 20, 2022

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Stewart’s Shops

It’s this upstate chain of convenience stores, and I go on the way up to the house in Kingston, and the way down back to the city, and sometimes just because I drive by. My wife swears by the Stewart’s-branded ice cream, and we stock our fridge full of Stewart’s branded seltzers—and colas, and juices, and Arnold Palmers—in all flavors. Shit you not, the hot dogs are legit. And they carry this Saratoga beef jerky that is truly called Damn Good Jerky, and it is incredibly good if you pick the “Hot & Spicy” variety. Stewart’s makes its own jerky too, but I haven’t tried it.

@nate-freeman

Jan 20, 2022

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Meg White

The White Stripes aren’t like my favorite band, not by a longshot, but Meg White is certainly the best drummer in the history of rock and roll. Pushing tempo as keeping tempo, genius. She was always so, so much cooler than Jack, now more than ever, given the fact that she’s essentially disappeared off the face of the earth and Jack is selling vinyl in Nashville or whatever it is he does.

@nate-freeman

Jan 20, 2022