TGIF - What to do, see and drink this Weekend....

Rough Week at Lola y Maria...between trying to update our new inventory system and stalking Duran Duran (yeah, you heard that right) it's been tough updating the blog this week.....well fortunately it's Friday and it's time to get our party on...here is a recap on some fun things going on the next couple of days.....

FRIDAY

IFC Open Road Rooftop Project (Grand & Essex)
Romantic short films about people committing their bodies, beliefs and lives for love
PLUS, Live Music and a Free Open Bar at Fontana's
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/show_07-romance.html

WILDSTYLE SCREENING at Powerhouse Arena
part of the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival
It all starts at 6pm. Check out the launch party for Charlie Ahearn's new book Wild Style:The Sampler. Then, walk over to the park (1 block away) and check out the official BHF screening of the film, some 25 years after it was first filmed. The flick starts at sun-down! Get there early to map out your spot, bring your blankets - they'll have plenty of popcorn on hand.
Word on the street is that Fab Five Freddy, Busy Bee, and some members from Cold Crush will be in the house!

SATURDAY

Tommy Guerrero plays THE KNITTING FACTORY
One of the all time best skators plays with his group this Saturday at the Knitting Factory...the music is layed back but no where near boring. PS this is an old pic of Tommy....Can you believe he is close to 40! If you want to get a taste of the music, you can check it out on ITUNES...his latest record, FROM THE SOIL to THE SOUL is fucking great...

MALA RODRIGUEZ CD RELEASE PARTY AT NACOTHEQUE
Be the first to hear tracks off her new album, "Malamarisimo"
in the basement at FONTANA's, 105 Eldridge St

Check out Mala on YOU TUBE:




SUNDAY



++SAENAI COLLECTIVE++ with association of STILL LIFE presents
"How to make a trunk show"
A live installation + retail concept store
Where: 77 Orchard street, NYC
When: 06.23.07- 06.24.07




THE PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE REMIXED
Clemente Soto Velez Arts Center
107 Suffolk between Rivington & Delancey
Concept:
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is the single largest public display of Puerto Rican identity in the United States. How have artists interpreted this parade in their art and what kinds of floats and public projects would artists contribute to the parade if given the opportunity to participate? Artist’s projects that seek to intervene in the representation of Puerto Rican identity at the parade, to portray what has been missing, excluded, or commercialized. This exhibition will display artists projects for the Puerto Rican Day Parade that we hope will be realized in the future.
Artists will present a collection of ideas, Drawings, Painting, Sculpture, Photographs, Collage, a fantasy, an installation or a collective project with an artistic vision for the Puerto Rican Parade.
A Blow Up of Puerto Rican Culture Icons (with a twist).