NYC: Wet Wednesday at Le Bain!

 

Mercury Night at Le Bain with DJK3 and Blu Jemz. Why don't you stop by? 

Money Making Jam Boys for 10 Deep

Our friend's at 10 Deep are throwing a party for their latest mixtape project with the MONEY MAKING JAM BOYS!!!

It’s party time in NYC, once again, on February 2nd, when we celebrate the release event at Hiro Ballroom with a live performance from MMJB (and whoever else they bring to the show).

RSVP: events@10deep.com

Just In Time For the Holidays: Cherry Bomb Mix by Nire!

Just released from one of our favorite NYC DJ's, Nire, the Cherry Bomb Mix is perfect for the holidays and the rest of your 2011. 

http://soundcloud.com/nire/cherry-bomb-mix

  CHERRY BOMB MIX by Nire

New Harmony Benefit Gala: You're Invited!

Come on out to this very special benefit event in support of two wonderful organizations performing critical environmental and human rights work in Guatemala.

This event is a cocktail gala and concert featuring Guatemalan musicians Tuco Cárdenas and Fernando Juárez, followed by a party with NYC-based bands and DJs. Be ready to shake it!

All proceeds go towards supporting Semilla Nueva's ongoing work in sustainable agriculture, and maintaining the various social programs offered by Nuevos Horizontes, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of the rights of women and children in Guatemala.

In particular for Nuevos Horizontes, the proceeds from this event will allow the daycare center to stay open in 2011. The daycare center is for children of working mothers/families living in poverty, and provides full-time childcare as well as nutritional, educational, and psychological services.

When: SATURDAY, December, 18th 7:00pm - 10:00pm (6:00pm - 10:00pm with VIP tickets)

Where: Club Soiree NYC | 199 Bowery, | MANHATTAN, NY 10002

Tickets: $35 General Admission; $100 VIP
REGISTER ONLINE HERE: http://www.semillanueva.org/event1210.php

Come out and support the farmers of our future!

CLAWS OUT! NYC 12/14

Ladies Lotto presents

Claws Out!

An evening with Graffiti Legend, Claw Money  + shop from Claw and other independent designers including Dirty Librarian Chains, sip holiday inspired cocktails and mingle with a creative class of influencers.

Tuesday, 14th 2010 7-10PM

Gallery Bar 120 Orchard Street New York

Complimentary Drinks provided by XANTE

RSVP REQUIRED!
RSVPNYC@LADIESLOTTO.COM

Holiday Gift Idea: ABSOLUT GLIMMER

In celebration of ABSOLUT Vodka's Limited Edition GLIMMER bottle, the company threw beautiful dinner for select ladies and gentleman.

We dined and drank with joy and after dinner, more ABSOLUT flowed along with special guest - CEE LO!!!

The limited edition GLIMMER bottle is available NOW for about $26 retail. Not too shabby, plus the crystal bottle is sure to put a little sparkle in anyone's eye.

Stylethirtheen x Hendrikka Waage Collection: NYC 11/19

Join StyleThirteen.com for an event celebrating Icelandic designer Hendrikka Waage Collections on November 19 at 8pm!

RSVP@STYLETHIRTEEN.COM

SPORTMAX Wine Tasting - Tuesday, October 26 (NYC)

Join SPORTMAX in tasting some delicious wines from Bodega Del Desierto!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

SPORTMAX, 450 West Broadway, NY, NY

RSVP to 212-674-1817 or MMSOHO@USA.MAXMARA.COM

Knitting is for Pussies - Yes, It is!

Yes, knitting is for pussies. Just ask artist Olek, known for her extensive designs, spontaneous and lightning speed crocheting skills. If you thought crocheting and knitting died along with the riot grrrl movement in the pages of Bust Magazine (which we heart), you thought WRONG.

Olek's work has been featured around the globe from NYC to the Venice Bienale, often under the radar but always well received.

Join Olek her very FIRST solo show at the Christopher Henry Gallery in Nolita, NYC.

Opening reception is Thursday, September 9th from 6-9pm. The exhibition runs through October

Christopher Henry Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street, Nolita NYC (between Broome & Grand)

Interview with Olek here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHq-ciqfWaw

Killer Kweenz

Ladies are at large and in-charge at GoldMoney's party for Kweenz Destroy's 2nd Collection Launch. Go ahead girls, drink a little something and shake a little more. Be sure to peep the collection before you head to the party.

TOMORROW, Thursday, July 22nd
10pm-4am
10pm-11pm, Champagne Open Bar
21+ to enter

Sutra
16 First Avenue
(Bet. 1st and 2nd Sts.)
212.677.9477

Featuring DJ's
Radio Rose
Lady Chellez
Bonnie Danger
Jasmine Solano

Hosted by
Funky Fannys
Cubannie Links
with special guest indie184

David Foox Art Party, June 25th, NYC

My friend, artist David Foox, is having an "aht party." Check it out:

Hall of Femmes

Hall of Femmes: Ruth Ansel is the first in a series of books highlighting leading female designers by producing books, lectures and exhibitions. This ongoing project was founded by Swedish graphic design duo Hjärta Smärta.

The first publication features the legendary art director Ruth Ansel, one of the first female art directors. In the 60's, when she was just 24, she and Bea Feitler became co-art directors of Harper's Bazaar, in the 70's she was the art director of The New York Times Magazine, and in the 80's Vanity Fair. Every time she was the first woman in the position she had.

Celebrate female creativity and leadership this Thursday at Danziger Projects in New York for Hall Of Femmes launch and book signing event.



Book Launch:
Hall of Femmes - Ruth Ansel

Thursday June 17

6PM-8PM

Danziger Projects

534 West 24th Street



www.hjartasmarta.se

http://halloffemmes.blogspot.com/

heart&feet - A Benefit for Drea's Dream

Photo via Analyssa Benedict

Join Ladies Lotto member, Jennifer Whitley at heart&feet: a dance exhibition, to benefit Drea's Dream, a pediatric dance therapy program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Jennifer will be joined by a host of dancers including Ladies Lotto's Elena Vazintaris and Krista Martins (Border Crossing Collective featuring the MarXman), Synthesis Dance Project and Vissi Dance Theater.

Andréa Rizzo survived childhood cancer only to be mowed down by a drunk driver. A spirited dancer, she always wanted to give back to children via dance therapy. Her passion has been realized by the formation of The Andréa Rizzo Foundation and Drea's Dream.

Help children with cancer find joy in dance by attending this event or supporting the foundation.


Thursday, June 3rd
8:00-10:30pm

Housing Works Bookstore Café
126 Crosby Street
NYC

Tickets are available for purchase at $50, $75 and $125 levels. Click here to place your order: http://dreasdream.org/events/


Sponsors include 44° North Vodka, Stella Artois, Santa Carolina and MotionWear.

Tonight in NYC: Grand Street Fire Benefit

Tonight you can dance for a cause. Head to The Wooly for the Grand Street Fire Benefit.

Friday, May 21st
10pm - ??

The Wooly
11 Barclay Between B'way and Church
NYC

$5 Entry donation
$5 Drink specials

RSVP to grandstreetfirebenefit@gmail.com

Click here to read more.

NYC - Shred for Your Life

This one is for all the headbangers out there. Witness the epic shredding contest that is SHRED FOR YOUR LIFE! Twelve contestants enter but only one leaves victor.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 17th
6:00pm - Doors
7:00pm - Performance by BYS
8:00pm - Battle begins

Webster Hall
125 11th Street
NYC

Guest Judges
Andrew WK
Jaleel Bunton
Justin Theroux

Those awesome photos on the flyer were taken by none other than Angela Boatwright.

Herstory: Emma Goldman

Goldman, above at an unemployed workers rally in Union Square NYC

Emma Goldman, born in to an impoverished Orthodox Jewish family in what is now Lithuania, emigrated to the US as a teen, has been described as—among other things—"the most dangerous woman in America". She was a staunch supporter of anarchism, a political philosophy most people know little about.

During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution. Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism.

As an anarchist, Goldman championed numerous human rights causes, particularly the issue of free speech. Widely persecuted for her advocacy of anarchism and opposition to World War I, Goldman was active in the early 20th century free speech movement, seeing freedom of expression as a fundamental necessity for achieving social change. Her outspoken championship of her ideals, in the face of persistent arrests, inspired Roger Baldwin, one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Goldman advocated passionately for the rights of women, and is today heralded as a founder of anarcha-feminism, which challenges patriarchy as a hierarchy to be resisted alongside state power and class divisions. In 1897 she wrote: "I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.”

Goldman was also an outspoken critic of prejudice against homosexuals. Her belief that social liberation should extend to gays and lesbians was virtually unheard of at the time, even among anarchists. As Magnus Hirschfeld wrote, "she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public." In numerous speeches and letters she defended the right of gays and lesbians to love as they pleased and condemned the fear and stigma associated with homosexuality. As Goldman wrote in a letter to Hirschfeld, "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life."

After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.

Read Emma's writings here: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

Via WIKIPEDIA

Lovers Rock New York Was Picture Perfect!

If you missed Lovers Rock NY this past Monday, you missed out on beauty and love that knows no bounds! Guests were captured by several photographers including Mel D. Cole. Besides having captured party-goers at LL's infamous 31 Under 31 photography show, Mel has shot a few people you may have read about or seen on the telly -- Diddy, 'Ye and Lil Wayne. The much buzzed about event took place at the gorgeous Norwood, a private art club in Chelsea.

Click here for a hi-res slide show.

Stay tuned for images from LL's open photo booth, manned by photographer Amber Sexton!

Just a Little Crush

Purple Crush is the husband and wife team of Isla and Jared. Since migrating from California to NYC, they've rocked many a party with their booty-popping electro beats.

LL's collective booties are feeling these tracks on HypeM. Click read full post to download the the songs.
Two of Hearts
Busy Boys
Get Digital

Check out Purple Crush's live performance at Lovers Rock LA at Bar Marmont on Wednesday, February 10th.

Swedes Got the Beat - NYC Annivesary Event

Flyer Designed By: Jenny Mortsell

Join The Swede Beat as they celebrate one year of bringing you the best in new Swedish music, fashion and art. LLadies love Lydia Kellam, the editor who has been a part of the Ladies Lotto team, and runs one of the freshest online magazines we've come across in a minute.

The Swede Beat Magazine: One Year Anniversary Party
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
10pm-2am

White Slab Palace
77 Delancey Street @ Allen
New York, NY
RSVP: editor (AT) theswedebeat (DOT) com

DJ sets by
Taken By Trees (Stockholm)
Korallreven (Stockholm)
Scribe (NY)

Birthday gifts for y'all brought to you by Labrador Records, Sonic Boom Records and The Swede Beat.

Drink Specials + Cake

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The Swede Beat Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to contemporary pop culture being produced by young Swedish creators.

Of Pimps & Pinups

After success with their acclaimed UK salon, Australian cousins Simon and James Charrison hopped across the pond and landed on the corner of Ludlow and Stanton in New York City's LES. While Pimps & Pinups is a sleek black box filled with luxe barber chairs and dressing room mirrors a 1950s pinup would die for -- it's not nearly as pretentious as it may seem -- and the staff is just as accommodating as the interior design is rich. The salon is well stocked with Kevin Murphy products and the fees for services won't break the bank.

Even if you can't stop in for a haircut you should pass by to check out the crazy cute staff. Shannon, John, Marissa, Michelle, Walton and Angelina are worth the trip. And, unlike other less awesome salons, all the stylists at Pimps & Pinups have the same rate. Hurrah; equal opportunity for pimps and pinups!

Tell them Ladies Lotto sent you and get a little something extra!