Williamsburg Weather, a Spring Teaser

January 9, 2012 Weekend in Images
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The New Year got off to a whiz-bang this Saturday with a tease of Spring and things to come on the horizon in Williamsburg. People were feeling the love all around – whether they were fueling up on the latest and greatest pop-up Brooklyn brunch spot to serve up fine fare our friendly confines (Good [...]

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Put a Knit on It: What’s New From Who

January 6, 2012 What's New From Who

A blustery start to the new year has knitting mavens of all stripes and colors and textures and patterns and styles coming out this weekend. It’s not just newbies knitting but also some vintage knits surfacing from across time and space. Yes Jess Knits is Brooklyn-based Jess love song to all that yarn can be. [...]

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2 Turntables & a Microphone

January 5, 2012 Events

Since Day 1, DJs have worked the market, spinning tunes to set the vibe and help shape the market experience. It’s not a club. But it’s not a lame soundtrack at retail. It’s fresh, live and real-time. As the Brooklyn and beyond obsession with classic vinyl has waxed and waned and waxed anew, so too [...]

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Chelsea Market: What Happened Was…

January 3, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Though we are huge fans of nostalgia and tirelessly on the hunt for stories, sometimes less is more. In the case of our Manhattan maiden market voyage at Chelsea Market that wrapped up late Saturday evening after a 2 week residence in the shadows of the High Line, the photos say it all. And if [...]

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That Market Feeling

December 28, 2011 In Case You Missed It
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Markets have always held an undeniably strong hold on my imagination. As a child, I have vivid memories of walking through the garage sales of suburban Chicago, the yard sales of Midwestern folk in Wisconsin and the markets (flea, food, and other) in Jerusalem’s Old City and Jaffa. They have driven me to corners of [...]

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You Always Remember Your First Time

December 26, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Far from a memorial or a rally cry — more a gentle reminder of the power of doing it the first time. We enter our final week at our inaugural Manhattan pop-up market at Chelsea Market today and could not be more thrilled for what the week holds. It has been years since everyone had [...]

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Last Minute Gift-Getting in Williamsburg … OPEN Friday & Saturday

December 22, 2011 What's New From Who
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Our Williamsburg, Brooklyn market is open this Friday (12P-7P) & Saturday (10A-5P)for limited, last-minute shopping so those of you uninterested in leaving the borough won’t have to and others turned off by the annoyances of long lines at the run-of-the-mill retailers can pop in and clean up. Jezebel & Toff gives remix a whole new [...]

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Morgan Spurlock’s The Failure Club

December 20, 2011 In the News
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Many know QP & Monty’s Ignacio Quiles as being the consummate bon vivant and man about town. Add to his latest credentials, one of the star’s of award-winning documentary film maker Morgan Spurlock’s The Failure Club. Spurlock’s spartan crew has shadowed Ignacio for the past several months as he seeks to grow his vintage emporium [...]

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Bumpin’ in Brooklyn, Rockin’ in Chelsea

December 19, 2011 Weekend in Images

‘Twas the weekend before Christmas and all through the boroughs, the shoppers were ducking in for warmth and not putting off for tomorrow that shopping that was needed, gifts were game on. The good times roll on throughout this week and next at our Manhattan holiday pop-up (corner of 10th Ave & 15th Street INSIDE [...]

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Super Saturday, Sensational Sunday: What’s New From Who

December 16, 2011 What's New From Who

If you’ve lived in a holiday-free zone so far, your little bubble is about to burst. There’s no avoiding the feeling in the air that the holidays are upon us. Pick your poison, there’s a lot to choose from. We’re making it pretty convenient for anyone with a Metrocard, an eye for people-watching on the [...]

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Chelsea Market Holiday Pop-Up Opens Today

December 15, 2011 Events
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It’s showtime. What better way to celebrate the final weeks of our 8th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn than to bring it all to Chelsea Market in Manhattan just in time for the holiday rush. Please join us. You can’t miss us. We’ve got 30 amazing curators of cool staking out their claim in a drop-dead gorgeous [...]

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Holiday Gifts for the Naturalists, the Naughty & the Self-Absorbed

December 13, 2011 Gift Guide
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You may have been called a lot of things this past year – hopefully it was everything but “the 1%.” Even that shouldn’t get you down. Some holiday gift ideas for those full of it – whether that’s spite or mirth or a wad of cash that they’ve stockpiled. Here are a few ways to [...]

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