BIRTHAYS + BIKES!!

Dear friends,

What an awesome week - Halloween at Vagabond was madness (see the Vagabond myspace and the New Times for pics), AND America elected Barack Obama as its 44th President!! After reading his detailed plan to help small businesses like us we can only say "Hell yes."

There is so, so much going on this weekend we're gonna blast right through it and as always you can scroll down to read more about everything below...

Friday at The Vagabond we not only welcome special guest DJs FRANKI CHAN and TOXIC AVENGER, but we're also celebrating JSIN AND MIKE DEUCE'S BIRTHDAYS!! Come out and give these guys a pat on the back and some birthday spankings. Next Friday, we've got 2 awesome bands from out of town!!

This Saturday is Gallery Walk night and also... the New Times' massive Thread/Unzipped fashion event at Soho Studios, Italian DJ duo CROOKERS in a rare Miami date at Heathrow, "Collision" at PS14, live jazz at Locust Projects, Contesta Rock Hair at Back Door Bamby, tons of art openings and...

...the HEAR MIAMI BENEFIT at Churchill's!! This show of shows features Miami luminaries like RACHEL GOODRICH, THE JEANMARIE, JESSE JACKSON, PRETTY PLEASE, THIS HEART ELECTRIC, DOWN HOME SOUTHERNAIRES, SIRENSANDSEALIONS, MATILDA LIGHTS, GORRIO & FRIENDS, EX-NORWEIGAN, and HUMBERT!!!! If you've been curious about local music then this is night to see what's up. The mere $7 cover also gets you a free CD!!

Sunday brings a super-awesome free community event brought to us by the city called BIKE MIAMI!! The city is going to shut down big stretches of Flagler St. and South Miami Avenue to car traffic so that Miamians can bike, run, walk, skate, and dance freely in the streets!! There are a ton of extra activities too - free yoga, public art, goodies and more so get Downtown early and stay for the day!! Full info and street maps at http://bikemiami.blogspot.com.

Next week we've got so much cool stuff going on in the shop so we'll hit you up Monday with the details of Music Movie Mondays, Casa De Ha-Ha 3, Origami Night, (((SHAKE))) and beyond... Have a great weekend!!

Cheers,
Lolo, Jsin and the Sweat crew