$76,000 Birkinstocks Made From Actual Birkin Bags?
Warning: Neither Hermès nor Birkenstock has approved this product.
The MSCHF Birkinstocks are made from deconstructed Hermès Birkin bags, with gold vermeil buckles and actual Birkenstock cork soles.Credit.MSCHF
On the second Monday in February, the Banksys of consumer culture struck again.
MSCHF, the Brooklyn collective that created the “Jesus shoe” (Nike sneakers with soles filled with holy water), “88 Holes” (a Damien Hirst spot painting with all the spots cut out and sold separately) and MSCHF X (an “impossible collab” wherein the group chopped up T-shirts from 10 streetwear fashion brands and patchworked them back together) has dropped its latest piece of social media catnip.
If You Think Keeping A Restaurant Open During A Pandemic Is Expensive, Just Try Closing One
arrow Inside Counter restaurant in Times square, which closed when indoor dining closed, in December 2020 Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock
Blair Papagni closed her first restaurant, Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg Brooklyn, last July, making the 22-seat pub-style eatery one of hundreds of New York City dining spots that fell victim to the crippling forces of the pandemic forced shutdowns, bans on indoor gathering, and high rent costs.
“The most heartbreaking part about closing was having to lay off people that had worked for us for a decade and having to tell our three kids that we would no longer have the diner open anymore,” she told Gothamist.
TeleMATER: reaching out to Italian-speaking Catholics in the US
TeleMATER marks its seventh anniversary providing Italian-speaking Catholics spiritually enriching television broadcasts.
In New York the lights on Broadway will not be the only ones to be dimmed because of Covid restrictions. While struggling with many difficulties, even Christian communities will experience the difficulty of not being able to meet in person, and the preventive measures making it impossible to celebrate the Eucharist in the usual way. In addition to taking care of difficult situations and the most vulnerable people, the parishes of the metropolis are seeking new ways to bring the sounds and images of the Eucharistic celebration into peoples’ homes so as to offer them at least a virtual participation via technology.
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Dec. 14, 2020
As the pandemic continues, Otto s Tacos, based in New York, has pivoted into off-premise, digital-only sales â vacating its four brick-and-mortar locations, which closed in March because of COVID-19. We ve been building Otto s Tacos for seven years in New York City, but, unfortunately, we are one of the many restaurants affected by the global pandemic and had to shut down all our physical locations, Founder Otto Cedeno said in a company press release. We saw an opportunity to stay in the fight and continue to service customers who loved our tacos by re-launching our brand as a delivery-only model through our new partnership with Mighty Quinn s Barbeque.