Parties

Full Look at Design on a Dime

Last Thursday night, at the opening of Housing Works’ sixth annual Design on a Dime event-a kooky funhouse featuring 49 showrooms each by a different (clashing) designer-everything was for sale. We do mean everything. In Jaclyn Smith’s room, photographs of the Charlie’s Angels actress with her family from the 70′s could be purchased for $10.00. Read More

Word War

Bookshops McNally Jackson, WORD, and Housing Works Bookstore are relieving post-Christmas boredom by insulting one another on Twitter.

Ex:

Hey everybody, let’s follow @mcnallyjackson, purveyors of shiny new books, exclusive West-Coast coffee, and vicious prevarications.

The Huffington Post characterizes it as “a veritable war of words” with “tongue-in-cheek insults” aplenty.

Housing Works Chicken: GNYHA’s Raske Is Chicken

ALBANY—An advocate at Housing Works sent over this photo from a demonstration the organization put together today outside the offices of the Greater New York Hospital Association, which, along with union 1199 has been running ads decrying David Paterson’s proposed health care restructuring.
Housing Works is calling Ken Raske, GNYHA’s president a chicken for Read More