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Seen a Burger King or Vitamin Water ad lately? Chances are it was taken by your boy. Not to mention countless other celebrity portraits, projects and a photo blog of the crazy life only an artist like this can lead
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Website:
http://KareemBlack.com
Twitter:
@KareemBlack
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A New York City fixture since 2003, Мишка (“Mishka,” or “bear cub” in Russian) clawed their own path through the often homogenous streetwear world, beginning humbly as a small t-shirt upstart and maturing into a full blown cut & sew powerhouse. Founded by Mikhail Bortnik and Greg Rivera, Мишка is synonymous in the industry with [...]
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Website:
http://www.mishkanyc.com/
Twitter:
@gregmishka
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Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic is a Designer, Calligrapher& Creative Director of the UK based label Earnest Endeavours. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lex is a graduate of both Pratt Institute and Temple University of Japan, and has lived and worked in New York and Tokyo. He has exhibited his artworks at galleries in NY, Tokyo, Paris, Miami [...]
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Website:
www.AEROSYNLEX.com
Twitter:
@aerosynlex
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Gabriella Davi-Khorasanee is the founder of MISS Omni Media – a family of websites including MISS, Lil’ Miss and La Chanelphile. She is also the founder and designer of Mama and has worked with the likes of adidas, New Era Cap, Montana Colors, Juicy Cosmetics and Bijules NYC on product design and brand development. Davi-Khorasanee’s [...]
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Website:
http://www.missomnimedia.com/
Twitter:
@MissOmniMedia
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RiotControl is the best mix show you’ve probably never heard of. The series began in 2006, inspired by internet radio like EVR or Rinse FM, and features Burt Fox DJing with host Sonny Noir as color guy. The show is spread by word of mouth, and has attracted a rabid core of listeners from around [...]
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Website:
www.RiotControlNYC.com
Twitter:
@burtfox
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Adam Saewitz is a brilliant director and videographer that just is too creative to give us a bio. But that’s ok. Sometimes the best way to express yourself is your art. Check out his website. You’ll get it.
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Website:
http://www.adamsaewitz.com/
Twitter:
@saewitz
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Joshua Prince, professionally known as Dust La Rock, is a Brooklyn based artist and designer. He is co-founder of and creative director for Fool’s Gold Records, serves as art director for A-Trak, and has his hand in a number of low-brow and high-profile projects at any given time.
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Website:
www.dustlarock.com
Twitter:
@dustlarock
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Want to know who’s behind it all? Meet Katie, your “Queen Bee” of the Good Peoples platform!
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Website:
www.Good-Peoples.com
Twitter:
@goodpeoples
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Matthew Waldman is a New York based artist and designer most prominently known for creating Nooka Inc., a lab dedicated to exploring universal communication via form, language and fashion. Founded in 2004 and best known for its patented timepieces, Nooka continues to provocate deeper thought on fashion and everyday objects. Matthew was born, raised and [...]
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Website:
http://www.nooka.com/
Twitter:
@nooka
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After spending 23 sun-soaked years in the valleys and on the beaches of southern California, Brooke Nipar broke for New York City. Reared at the hands of rock n’ roll parents, she brought with her a unique vision. Years of listening to her forebears’ records, crashing punk shows and fleeing to remote desert raves have [...]
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Website:
http://brookenipar.com
Twitter:
@brookenipar
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Good Peoples wouldn’t be where it is today without this guy. As the former Publisher of Beautiful/Decay, Fubz commissioned the yet-to-be named crew to curate monthly event experiences to mirror the magazine content. It was these very parties that put Good Peoples on the map. Now, an Account Exec at The NTWRK Agency, and a [...]
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Website:
http://theshitshowreview.com/
Twitter:
@fubzilla
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Dante Fried Chicken is a gem in cuisine and culture led by the chef, filmmaker, visionary and charismatic host, DFC. That’s Dante Gonzales, man and brand behind Dante Fried Chicken. The whole DFC team shares his cuisine with the world through signature events, pop up restaurants, an award-winning food truck and it’s very own homegrown variety [...]
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Website:
http://www.dantefriedchicken.com/
Twitter:
@kfcrip
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New York City based photographer Alessandro Zuek Simonetti was born in Italy and grew up parallel to the urban street cultures of the early 90′s. Developing his own distinct photographic language reflects his deep interest in young niche cultures. Quite often each project stretches beyond the photographic medium which serves as a sign of his [...]
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Website:
http://www.zuekphotography.com
Twitter:
@
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iO Tillett Wright is an artist whose work focuses on the leading margins of contemporary life and culture. Her photography is regularly featured on two blogs at the New York Times: Notes from the Underground and The Low Down. She had her first solo show at Fuse gallery in NYC in 2010 and exhibited her [...]
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Website:
http://www.darlingdays.com
Twitter:
@darlingdays
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Lauren Giambrone practices western herbal medicine with a harm reductionist approach. She believes strongly in the importance of self-care & the role herbal medicine plays there, and is committed to creating more just access to health services and education for all. In 2008, she apprenticed with 7Song at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine and [...]
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Website:
http://goodfightherbco.com
Twitter:
@
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Photographer Nick Rhodes, better known as Nicky Digital, captures the excitement of urban culture through vibrant photography, video, and online editorial content, portraying influential musicians, artists, and party-goers and reconnecting them on a digital landscape. Nicky’s mission is to ensure there is record of the energetic, wild, and fun time you had by creating a [...]
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Website:
http://www.nickydigital.com
Twitter:
@nickydigital
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The parties Matt Goldman throws under the moniker MFG connect with scruffy indie rockers, plugged-in remix junkies and young people who just wanna roll out and dance all night — in fact, as his party’s name suggests, if you want to dance, you’re at the right place. He admires local promoters like FYF’s Sean Carlson [...]
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Website:
http://mfgproductions.com/
Twitter:
@danceright
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We are an extended family of musicians and artists founded in Scotland, UK. Some of us are beautiful. Others are ugly. Let us tell you how it all started. LuckyMe / Music.Art.Parties started in Spring 2002 as a pipe dream to make hip hop in a place that was not on the map for hip [...]
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Website:
http://thisisluckyme.com/
Twitter:
@luckyme
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“Made in Taiwan, Raised in NYC and Perfected in Subculture” Born in Taiwan, Andy Shaw moved to the United States at the age of 10 with little knowledge of English or American culture. He grew up in Queens, NY, and graduated from LaGuardia High School (of Fame fame) studying piano and the oboe, after which [...]
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Website:
http://www.shawpromotion.com/
Twitter:
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In 2007, Erin Magee broke the mold to satisfy women looking for street-inspired garments made with quality and authenticity by forming the MadeMe label. Using traditionally masculine silhouettes with feminine fits and New York street sensibility, MadeMe is a collection defined by aesthetic and attitude. The MadeMe label is currently stocked in over 35 stores [...]
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Website:
http://www.mademeclothing.com
Twitter:
@mademe
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A self-professed “mixed-up kid” who’s a blend of crazy Latina, stubborn German and passionate Sicilian wrapped up in fair Welsh skin, Amylu Meneses was born to be a promoter, a trend setter, an idea maker, and a music junkie. By the tender age of 15, she was already a force to be reckoned with in [...]
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Website:
http://amylulita.blogspot.com/
Twitter:
@amylulita
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Whether deck or dinner plate, Jesse Tittsworth’s insatiable hunger questionably devours whatever is put in front of him. His food preferences veer past strange: his favorite meal is live octopus. His appetite was just as fierce in 2004, when the Chinese-American carnivore from Washington D.C. almost immediately leap-frogged from local favorite to international DJ headliner. [...]
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Website:
http://www.tittsworth.com/
Twitter:
@tittsworth
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Johnsville is an artist, illustrator and DJ in a blender. The Bronx native is a great sample of what New York creative culture is all about. By day he is creating politically charged artwork and crafting illustrations for clients like Southern Comfort and The Roots. By night he is spinning eclectic DJ sets all over [...]
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Website:
http://www.johnpdessereau.com/
Twitter:
@johnsville
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Heavily responsible for the grimy techno-soul of NYC’s Cubic Zirconia and the greasy bass of Drop The Lime’s live show, DJ and producer Nick Hook has been “twisting knobs” (self-description) for a minute now. He is no stranger to the dark underbelly of the late-night clubs, having played in some of the finest temples of [...]
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Website:
http://nickhook.tumblr.com/
Twitter:
@nickhook
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Warm, bright, and girly Elizabeth Raab is not a spoiled princess enamored with the idea of riding on the back of someone else’s bike. Her passion is the same that has caused the creation of countless man caves. Raab’s images are simple and complicated, precise and unwieldy, grimy and pristine. They contain a sensuality that [...]
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Website:
http://www.elizabethraab.com/
Twitter:
@elizabethraab
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The Frank Book ( http://www.frank151.com/book/archive) is a pocket-sized quarterly publication. Every chapter of the Frank Book is helmed by a special Guest Curator and focuses on a unique editorial theme.
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Website:
http://www.frank151.com
Twitter:
@http://www.twitter.com/frank151
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Texas started to take photos during the last year of CBGBs (2006) and covered bands such as Bad Brains, Underdog, Sick of it All, Lady Unluck and more. In 2007, she began covering the nightlife scene in which she met a roaring amount of tastemakers and talented artists. She was known as ‘That Kid Texas’ [...]
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Website:
www.KingTexas.net
Twitter:
@kingtexas
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A-Morir, the eyewear collection by Kerin.Rose, has become a much publicized favorite among fashion’s biggest trendsetters. Drawing inspiration from her time spent studying classical music as a child combined with her lifelong love of rock and roll she sets herself apart with her rebellious designs executed with an impeccably refined craftsmanship. Founded in the fall [...]
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Website:
www.a-morir.com
Twitter:
@kerinrose
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Telephoned was born one night in Brooklyn when DJ/producer Sammy Bananas and singer/party starter Maggie Horn decided to record their own version of T-Pain’s “Can’t Believe It.” Their track was neither remix nor cover – instead, the duo fashioned a postmodern take on both, warping the original beat into a hypnotic club track and bringing [...]
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Website:
http://www.1800telephoned.com
Twitter:
@telephoned
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A foot in the future, a foot in the past. This is where you will find producer and disc jockey Vin Sol. His goal is to subvert notions of what dance music is and what it can do. Throughout his career he taken a dynamic approach to dance music spending the past decade performing in [...]
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Website:
www.vin-sol.com
Twitter:
@vinsol
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You know the trusted friends you turn to when you need a solid restaurant suggestion? That’s these guys.
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Website:
http://www.immaculateinfatuation.com/
Twitter:
@immaculateinfat
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StudioBooth, founded by photographers Dustin Ross and Dan Eckstein, is a multi-disciplinary photography company that creates customized interactive photo experiences. Their signature product, the StudioBooth, is a mobile photo studio that lets your event photograph itself. Similar to a photo booth, but expandable for groups of any size, the StudioBooth uses beautiful fashion lighting to [...]
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Website:
http://www.thestudiobooth.com/
Twitter:
@studiobooth
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To be a professional light painter is a pretty esoteric thing, but these two lunatics have somehow made a business out of it. Formed in 2007, MRI Lightpainting is a two-person (professional photographer Michelle McSwain and professional “creative” Ryan Warnberg) crew dedicated to the art of long exposure photography, light painting, and light graffiti. Whether [...]
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Website:
www.mrilightpainting.com
Twitter:
@M_R_I
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DJ JayCeeOh is a rare breed of artist who combines turntablism and top notch selecting. A master DJ who can integrate everything from hip-hop, house, electro, disco, dubstep, reggae, funk, and soul seemlessly into his sets, JayCeeOh is a representative of the next level of party rocking. This January, JayCeeOh won 1st place at the [...]
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Website:
http://soundcloud.com/jayceeoh
Twitter:
@jayceeoh
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Tara is an experienced branding and marketing strategist with a passion for building and positioning brands through customized storytelling, creative thinking, strategic partnerships and innovation.
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Website:
http://inclinedtocreate.com
Twitter:
@taraleilani
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Jules Kim, the creator of Bijules, is unapologetically conquering the balance of art and aesthetics in jewelry. This makes her one of those rare artists who harbor the ability to create objects that mirror the beautiful and chaotic world we inhabit: with all its humor, tragedy, ambivalence, love and hate… To be in the company [...]
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Website:
www.bijulesnyc.com
Twitter:
@bijules
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It’s acid inflected pop music that hints towards a tradition of great new york loft parties and the vacious structure of punk bands like ESG and Liquid Liquid. But you know, Cubic’s music is more than that. It’s not trying to be anything else than Nick Hook, Tiombe Lockhart & Daud Sturdivant going in as [...]
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Website:
http://cubiczirconia.tumblr.com/
Twitter:
@@_cubiczirconia
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In the ether between wet dreams and nightmares you may visit the Ministry of Dreams. The brainchild of designer Theresa Dapra, the Ministry explores the space between experimental art and avant-garde fashion with a series of painstakingly-crafted accessories that are not for the faint of heart. Working in unusual and hard-to-find luxury materials—crystals, chain-mail, fox [...]
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Website:
www.ministryofdreams.net
Twitter:
@
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This ain’t your grandmother’s calligraphy. Paperfinger is a modern calligraphy, design and illustration studio based in Brooklyn. Bryn Chernoff, Pen & Proprietor, specializes in a wide range of contemporary lettering and calligraphy styles for invitations, events, weddings, logos, stationery, address stamps, custom projects and design. In any given week, projects are as varied as tattoo [...]
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Website:
www.paperfinger.com
Twitter:
@paperfinger
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DJ Synapse has been a constant figure in the NYC music lexicon for the past 15 years. He uses his fluency of multiple musical genres (pop, dancefloor jazz, hip-hop, funk and reggae to rock, dubstep and electro) to put forth his Cut & Paste style, garnering him the respect of the DJ culture’s founders, as [...]
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Website:
www.soundcloud.com/dj-synapse-nyc
Twitter:
@djsynapse
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As the world at large safely contemplates their existences online in front of computers and TVs, MeanRed Productions takes passion and activates it. We produce risk taking events, stellar shows in unexpected places, national activations with partners we love, and are not only the hardest working boutique production and marketing company on the eastern seaboard, [...]
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Website:
www.MeanRedProductions.com
Twitter:
@builtbymeanred
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Jessa Blades is a makeup artist, natural beauty expert, activist and women’s health advocate based in New York City. Tired of sacrificing women’s health in the name of beauty, Jessa ditched toxic brands in 2008 and founded her company Blades Natural Beauty, sharing her knowledge of beauty tips and techniques while calling attention to the [...]
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Website:
www.bladesnaturalbeauty.com
Twitter:
@jessablades
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Rose Garcia is the perfect amalgam of high and lowbrow brilliance. A fashion stylist in NY, LA, and Miami; her specialty is showing off the uniqueness and beauty of the human form in all varieties of shapes and shades. While bringing out the strength and confidence in the models and the celebrities she helps outfit.You [...]
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Website:
http://www.rosegarcia.com/
Twitter:
@radiorose
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Queen Majesty has been collecting reggae vinyl for the past 16 years and selecting it at various venues all around the world for over a decade. As one of the 4 members of NYC’s Deadly Dragon Sound, she can also be found bringing crates of 45s to their weekly downtown parties that showcase Jamaican music [...]
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Website:
http://www.queenmajesty.com/
Twitter:
@thequeenmajesty
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Seed is a digital distribution, marketing, and licensing boutique for independent labels/ artists, and brands. Do you love Fools Gold, Mad Decent, or Kitsune? This crew makes it available to you on iTunes!
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Website:
http://www.seedworldwide.com
Twitter:
@seedworldwide
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Seven years ago Liz quit her job and never looked back. Her years working in fashion design and product development brought her to realize her true passion: vintage clothing. Born into a family of antique dealers and collectors she learned the art of the hunt at a very young age. With this experience and love [...]
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Website:
http://www.gottagetthegoods.com/
Twitter:
@busyladybaca
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Heavy Bass Champions Of The World!
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Website:
http://troubleandbass.com/
Twitter:
@troubleandbass
TGIF as your favorite Friday rooftop party returns for its 3rd run! Your hosts Jules Kim (Bijules) and Katie Longmyer (Good Peoples) join The Standard Highline for the 3rd summer of this exclusive series. Select Summer Fridays herald curated music by notable DJ selectors, custom cocktails, and lunch and dessert crepes which compliment this exclusive afternoon party. [...]
