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This month our new Mobile Spinach website is launching and may I just say that I am really impressed. The site has mad flow and the deals are right up in your face and easy to find. I think that’s the most important part. If the deals are convoluted and difficult to comprehend people will just skip over them and that will be the end of it. The deals are really taking off and I’m proud to be a part of it. Keep checking up on www.mobilespinach.com for deals in NYC! I’m working on it…

I met my fellow Mobile Spinach-ian Tastemaker “Love to Eat” the other night and, like all Tastemakers, she’s a sucker for good times and sharing the wealth. Needless to say we got along. So she let me in on a little party that is going down after-hours at Webster Hall.

We are both big music fans and MSTRKRFT is the perfection when party music is getting dropped on yo ass. MSTRKRFT’s DJ duo will be holding a special after-hours performance tomorrow night so get your tickets now if you can! There must be some way to get MSTRKRFT on the future Mobile Spinach Recording Label!!

Drinks at My Little Secret (Sorry no website yet…the sign of a true speakeasy) are a must this week. The place is in Little Italy, where I haven’t spent much time and I’m ready to have some Sambuca and check it out. It’s almost disappointing to send this place up the flag pole via Mobile Spinach but damn it the public has a right to know about these things. I will try my best to bring the speakeasy world of My Little Secret to the speakeasy world of Mobile Spinach members.

Recently I’ve been asked my multiple women (Not just Mom and Grandma) about what I might want to Christmas. Lately I’ve been in a strange mood that seems defined by not actually giving a flying hell what people think of me; especially on nights and weekends when I don’t have to be on point professionally. This mind set has lead me to wear certain items that, if they were worn by other people, I may have laughed at in the past. No longer. Sagalicious (www.sagaciousny.bigcartel.com) is a jewelry maker for men and women. The pieces they design could be exactly what I am looking for. I believe we have, low and behold, Mobile Spinach discount with Sagalicious too!

This week all the Mobile Spinach Tastemakers are writing about our home base of San Francisco. Where Mobile Spinach started and the deals are really in flux. Here are just a few:

• Kipling offers 15% discount on full price merchandise (not valid with any other offers).

• Lemon Twist offers 15% discount on in store purchases.

• Lombardi Sports offers 20% discount on any one non-sale item.

• Dottie Doolittle offers 10% discount on spectacular children's retail store, babys to size girls 16

• Bae Home and Design offers 20% discount on purchases of $100.00 or more in store. (Not valid with any other promotions or sales).

• RAG CO-OP offers 15% discount on entire shop of Bay Area designer's clothing and accessories.

• Saks Fifth Avenue offers 20% discount on purchases. Some restrictions apply.

New after work spot has been brought to my attention, Rye House (www.ryehousenyc.com). The descriptions I’ve read seem a little Wall street and stiff to me but your after work hours are your own and no one is gonna tell me what not to wear after Labor Day. The food sounds flat out incredible mixing down home recipes with delicacies you’d find at The Plaza.

I like bars that advertise their simplicity. Bar Henry says it all in the name and it seems they don’t have a website; even more timeless and one dimensional. No specialty cocktails here, well at least not ones colored to match a Hello Kitty backpack.

New razors are cheap, until you have to buy the blades that cost about four times more than the razor. What a serious rip. But just found out that if you buy the Gillette Fusion MVP razor you can win a luxury NFL skybox with five friends complete with an old fashioned shave while you watch the game. I want to get entered more times though if I buy the refill blades….bastards. (http://www.gillette.com/en-US/#/products/fusionmvp/en-us/index.shtml/?campaign=fusionmvp)

Tipsy Parson (http://tipsyparson.com/) opens this week. I’m looking forward to the Southern flair of the dining. Also, the Crosby Street Hotel is happening these days. The bar in the lobby has after work drinks seemingly etched into the oak floors. (http://www.firmdale.com/index.php?page_id=31). Also, what’s pretty damn cool about the Crosby is they have a screening room. I’m pretty sure I can sip a scotch while watching exactly what I want to watch in their theatre…for a price of course.

Booths are just conducive to good conversation and an occasional dance off on the table in the small hours of the morning. I just saw a picture of the booths at Juliet in Chelsea and good god I already feel like I’m in A Clockwork Orange…with Belvedere instead of Moloko Vellocet. It opens this Friday and getting a res is going to be a mission.