Thanks to The Skint for the heads up on a benefit shopping event today at Bloomingdale's in Soho! Shop all day to help support the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center and enjoy a cocktail party from 6-8pm, which will include drinks, passed hors d’oeuvres and desserts.

How do you feel about goody bags and open bars? I feel pretty good about them. Enter the Tribeca Retail Club's Fashion Night Out.

Fashion Night Out is an independent designer trunk show, shopping and beauty event. An underground fashionistas destination, it showcases a variety of independent designer duds, beauty products, and services. Admission is free, but a VIP admission ticket scores you an open bar plus the VIP goody bag valued at $150. VIP ticket holders can also take advantage of designer discounts and services all night!


TRIBECA RETAIL CLUB 2010
FRIDAY March 26

Chacala NY
394 Broadway, 4th fl
6PM - 11PM

General admittance: Free
VIP ENTRANCE : $15.00 gets you Open Bar & VIP Swag Bags. If you use the discount code “NYCDIARY,” it chops the cost down to $10 entry instead of $15. The code is good through MONDAY, March 22.

Click here to RSVP

Sponsors: -Butterfly Twists-Vaseful -Yagolicious Cosmetics: hosting the Beauty Bar -Derma Doctor -Sleek MedSpa -Sassimi

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You can get a free lip care item worth up to $7.50 at Bath & Body Works with ANY purchase through March 21 with this coupon instores, or by using the code STUDENT when you check out online.

Check out the coupon for the full details!

Code good through March 21st.

Get a free burrito in NYC from Baja Fresh on St. Patty's Day (March 17)!

From their FB page:
"For our Favorite Fans! Come Join us for St. Patrick's Day! Wear Green and receive a Free Burrito with the Purchase of a large beverage. Step 1- Open the picture with the offer, Step 2- Click account in the upper right hand corner of the page (make sure your name appears under account). Step 3 - Print the page and ENJOY! (please make sure your name appears in the top right hand corner of the Page.)"

Click here to redeem this promotion.


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The big question is - does the free coffee on Mondays from Dunkin' Donuts during March work in NYC, or not?

Since I forgot to test it last Monday, I dropped by the DD in Rockefeller Center with the promotional email printed, as back up. My friend Christa came along with me since she has an insatiable morning coffee addiction and was going there anyway.

DD Lady: What can I get you.
Me: Hi, I have I'd like to redeem the free Monday coffee deal. // I show her the printed email//
DD Lady: //confused look, spurts gibberish//
Me: Is it valid here?
DD Lady: //ignores me, finds a manager. he nonchalantly nods and waves her away//
Me: Hello?
DD Lady: Yes, you get coffee? Want deal? //points at 3.99 breakfast deal//
Me: No, just the free medium iced french vanilla coffee please, with skim and no sugar.

At this point, she takes my order and continues to talk to me about the promotion, but I have no idea what she's saying because of her broken English. Meanwhile, my friend orders her coffee and tries to use the "Monday Free Coffee" moniker as well, but they claim she needs a print out (which makes no sense, it does not say you need to print it to redeem.)

A moment later a hot coffee comes out, which is what Christa ordered and paid for. The woman I ordered from tells me it's mine, even though I ordered iced. The woman then says the coupon only counts for hot (um?) and that I should taste the coffee to see if it's mine, because Christa's had Splenda. I looked at her and said I was not going to burn my mouth on coffee straight from the sprocket to see if it had Splenda in it.

Then Christa's coffee came out, and we walked away. Mine was free, hers was not.

Moral is - it kind of works. Test at your own risk.

UPDATE: My coffee did have Splenda in it. Now lets say I tasted this coffee in front of them - would they have made both me and Christa a new coffee? Hm.



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If you're like me, you have a monthly Metro card as your sole source of transportation. Sometimes you wish you could drive to that elusive crab shack in Bayridge, to Target in Queens, or even Conneticut.

LO! Connect by Hertz makes it easy and cheap, because for the month of March you can rent a Smart Car from Connect by Hertz in NYC for $2 an hour with unlimited mileage. What's especially awesome, is that as with all Connect by Hertz cars, there are no fuel costs and no insurance charges.

Connect by Hertz March Promotion details:
--To rent the smart car for $2/hr, sign up for a Connect by Hertz membership.
--Once you’re approved, you will be able to log in and rent a car.
--The special $2 rates will be clear on the website – no code needed. Members need to log in, enter the dates and then sort by car model (“Smart”) to find the garages with vehicles available.

Membership packages:
--Connect Membership: $50 annual fee. Regular rates start at $10 per hour or $70 per day. Smart Car rates are $2 per hour or $48 a day for the month of March.
--Connect 50 Membership: $50 monthly fee, no annual fee. Regular rates start at $9 per hour or $63 per day. Smart Car rates are $2 per hour or $48 a day for the month of March.
--Connect 125 Membership: $125 monthly fee, no annual fee. Regular rates start at $8.50 per hour or $59.50 per day. Smart Car rates are $2 per hour or $48 a day for the month of March.

For all NYC locations, click here.

*Connect by Hertz is a client of my PR agency.

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Here's a great New York City beauty deal! Food, drinks and a gift bag at Salon Ziba's 20th anniversary party. When I rsvped there were only 40 spots left! Hurry up and rsvp

LivingFreeNYC tells me that West 3rd Common, the sister Restaurant to East Village’s Common Ground, is offering free garlic fries and a glass of beer or wine to celebrate their opening!

Just mention the code word “wheaten terrier” to the server! Promo expires March 31, 2010.

Thanks to Wisebread.com, I just found out that beginning today if you bring the April 2010 cover of Seventeen or a printout of the seventeen.com home page to any participating Nordstrom store, you get a full-size Lancôme Juicy Tubes lip gloss. It's worth about $18.

Downside? There's no goddamn Nordstrom in NYC - but my Westchester and national readers can delight. While I don't normally write about something you can't redeem within city limits, this is pretty cool. There's also a Nordstrom in RI, so my mom can go pick one up for me (hint).


Nordstrom
135 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY‎
(914) 946-1122‎

Giveaway ends April 12, 2010, or while supplies last!

Expires Monday 4/12



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Art opening alert! Sarah Small's quirky world is the place to be this Wednesday. Check it:

Sarah Small: The Delirium Constructions
Exhibition opens Fri, Mar 5 and runs through Fri, Mar 26, 2010

The Delirium Constructions is an ongoing body of work exploring disassociated characters brought together into the same space. Small brings models into improbable, close interactions to examine the social and graphic contrasts of youth and experience, hysteria and discipline, tragedy and hilarity and sexuality and desexualization. These scenarios are staged, but the emotions that result are born through improvisation, spontaneously captured and authentically experienced. Like an optical illusion, where the viewer shifts between opposing visual perceptions, these images reference emotional illusion, a rocking back and forth between projection and introspection, between darkness and hilarity.

Free reception on Wed, Mar 10 from 6-8pm. To honor the Delirium series, Sarah will be serving Delirium Tremens as the choice beverage at the reception.

92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street

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Found via Karen's Koupons, it looks like Dunkin' Donuts is giving away free hot and medium iced coffee every Monday in March! Seamless Web promo ends, Dunking begins :)

From the DD website:

Thanks to a heads up from the skint, via Wined and Dined (aren't we all just so connected?), I bring you word of Poco's first anniversary celebration!

For THREE HOURS, enjoy a complimentary open bar and passed hors d oeuvres! W&D says there's even "burlesque by the Dilettaunts, Goose the band & music mixed by DJ Eric Visa."

If I wasn't going to see Alice in Wonderland in 3d tonight, you'd know where I'd be.

Show up thirsty and hungry, because no RSVP is needed.

Poco
33 Ave. B at 3rd St.
7:00pm-10:00pm

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Constant business traveler Alan Danzis has the DL on a new Jetblue promo!

JetBlue is celebrating their 10th anniversary in style. If you need to fly one way to or from New York this Tuesday (tomorrow) or Wednesday, you can do so for only $10.

That’s in addition to the usual free snacks, the free DirecTV, more legroom, etc.

Full details can be found here, amongst other blogs covering this great deal today.

But you have to book by MIDNIGHT tonight. So what are you waiting for?


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Socially Superlative has details on how to get into the Grand Opening Party for 1834 Bar & Burger! With free drinks and tasty snacks, you don't want to miss this.

March 16
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
RSVP by March 12: rsvp@1834nyc.com

1834 Bar & Burger
62 Pearl Street
New York, NY

I know where crazybobby, one of Postabon's contributors, hangs out on Friday nights: hitting balls and hitting on the ladies at Chelsea Piers!

He posted this sweet deal, which I just had to share with you all: "Tonight (3/5) and the next two fridays, get unlimited golf balls at the range, and unlimited wine and beers, for 90 minutes for only $30 at Chelsea Piers from 6:30-8. You also get free instruction from the range pros..."

From the Chelsea Piers website:

WHAT: Enjoy an open wine & beer bar, light snacks while you mingle and rotate through the stalls during open hitting on the Driving Range with instruction from our top Teaching Pros

WHERE: The Golf Club at Chelsea Piers

WHEN: Fridays, March 5, 12 and 19 6:30-9pm

WHO: Singles, Couples and Groups are welcome!

COST: $30 per person, per Friday

Click here to RSVP or call 212.336.6400.

The Golf Club at Chelsea Piers | Pier 59 | New York, NY 10011

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Monday night Thrillist and Tasting Table kicked off one of their most brilliant ideas yet – Martini Week. When I emailed my friend Katherine to see if she’d join me for the evening over at Madam Geneva, she wrote back, “The martini gets it’s own week?! I’m in.”

When we arrived at Madam Geneva, ready for a martini (or five) we found ourselves behind a barricaded door. I quickly called Von from Socially Superlative and she told me that that I had to walk through the sister restaurant, Double Crown. It’s good to know people who know things.

Kristina Marino from The Downtown Diaries, Katherine Epstein from Citadel, Yvonne from Socially Superlative, & me.

At the event, no martini was off the table, but most guests sampled two of their signature drinks. First there was the Europa Martini, which is made with Bombay Sapphire Gin and tastes like the Cosmo’s butch sister. The other drink, which I enjoyed more, is the milky Green Angel Martini made with Grey Goose that contained little crumbles of pistachio. Delish.

Posing with the ladies

Martini Week actually runs for two-weeks, March 1 through March 14, at bars across Manhattan. Premium gin and premium vodka martinis, which I imagine could normally set you back up to $20 each, will be served for just $10 to those who whisper “Martini Week” into their bartenders ear from 5:30-8:30pm.

Martini time

Me and Nick McGlynn, with one of our drink tickets.

For photos and other recaps of Martini Week's kickoff, please visit:

Socially Superlative

Guest of a Guest

Random Night Out

Thrillist

NBC

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Sign up to receive emails from Warners (bra maker, not cable tv provider) and get a free E.L.F french manicure set! It's worth about $3.00 retail (hey, it's E.L.F, not O.P.I.) but by now you know not to argue with the free fairy.

Click here to ger your free E.L.F. set


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Guest blogger Alan Danzis on how to get free shipping from Amazon, when you're a few cents short...


I can’t tell you how often I buy something on Amazon for $24.99 and am one penny – no really a PENNY – away from free shipping. Of course, maybe that’s their goal: to get me to buy a $60 videogame so I get that elusive free shipping.

Well, my bud @richdemuro did me and humanity a solid when he posted a link today to a site called Amazon Filler Item Filler on Twitter today. Put in the amount of money you need to get to the magic number of $25, and it’ll spit out items you can buy.

So for me, looking for that extra penny, I could have bought:

A pencil sharpener for .25

A hex nut for .55

A book called The Lord’s Supper for .66

I will definitely be using this site in the future!

I personally would choose Emigrant Life In Kansas for .73 or the beautiful Inkology Cat Tales 2-Pocket Portfolio, Assorted Designs for .74.(1084128)(1000)

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Yum! This sounds like a nice addition to the other various Sunday specials around the city. Buy one get one hot chocolates at Chocolate Bar!

Blizzards. Ice storms. Bring it on! Alison Nelson’s Chocolate Bar fights the Winter blues with a smoking Sunday surprise: Two4One. Get it whipped with cream, fluffy with homemade marshmallows, or simply straight up! Every Sunday from 8:30AM-9:00PM until Spring arrives, a free steaming hot cup of award-winning small size cocoa for all! A meal unto itself, Chocolate Bar’s hot chocolate is rich and satisfying. Made with pure 65% Belgian Callebaut dark chocolate, never cocoa powder, and steamed to perfection. Chocolate Bar’s hot chocolate is made with with your choice of milk or soy (a truly dairy free, vegan treat.) Eight hot chocolate flavors include classic, spicy, peppermint, coconut, hazelnut, caramel, raspberry and white. Go on, drink your chocolate.

TWO 4 ONE:
HOT CHOCOLATE HAPPY HOUR

Chocolate Bar West Village
19 Eighth Avenue
bet Jane & West 12th Street

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