Thrillist New York
Emailed in a LIST on: Friday January 6, 2006The List
Services: Salon AKS
A haircut in New York either means wasting hundreds at a salon, or dropping $10 for some East Village Cossack to butcher you with the same rusty shears he used to snip pinkies off Chechen rebels. Instead, hit uber-pricey AKS' Tuesday discount deal, where a closely supervised trainee will trim you for $15 (over a $100 savings). Appointments go fast, so call well in advance -- or procrastinate and end up once again sporting the unsightly Moldovan Mullet.
Check outSalonAKS.comfor more info
Sports: New York National Boat Show
This is the last weekend for the 101st annual Boat Show, featuring over a thousand watercraft worth murdering for. The lineup includes five boats straight off the sets of James Bond films, our favorite being the "Tow Sled" (Thunderball) -- despite the fact that its engines were irreparably clogged with errant clumps of Sean Connery's chest muff.
Gorging: Samba-Le
Raucous Latin restaurants can be prime places to start your night -- unless you've got to bash through fifty raucous gringos just to quaff a Caipirinha at the bar. Hit Samba-Le, a just-opened Brazilian/Italian tapas joint in Alphabet City that hasn't blown up yet. Go immediately, before the place gets as jammed as other popular Latin spots, such as Boca Chica, Xunta, and Marc Anthony's bung.
Drinking: Liquor Locker
You'd rather die than share your holiday-gift liquor with anyone, so safeguard your stash with the Liquor Locker: a brushed nickel combination lock/stopper. Deploying it widens the plug to as much as an inch in diameter, wedging it snuggly into almost any bottleneck, from your 21-year old rye, to the trachea of your roommate -- who'll no longer be whining about your protective measures.
Pick one up atInstawares.com
The Rest: Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
DePaul professor Rachel Shteir's provocative lecture will cover more than a century of ladies lewdly peeling, while attempting to answer the underlying question of whether it's possible "for women to develop a sexuality that is not connected to male ideas of it". Even though you already know it's not, it never hurts to learn more about strippers.
