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COLLECTED AGENDA #5

What I did: Dienst & Dotter, SARA’S at Dunkensthalle, Knickerbocker Bar & Grill What you should do: Devil’s Workshop, TENSE, Blade Study, Jack Skelley Myth Lab Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. WHAT I DID Monday, June 24 I buy my mother a children’s book for her birthday at Dienst & Dotter in the West Village.

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What I did: Dienst & Dotter, SARA’S at Dunkensthalle, Knickerbocker Bar & Grill What you should do: Devil’s Workshop, TENSE, Blade Study, Jack Skelley Myth Lab Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. WHAT I DID Monday, June 24 I buy my mother a children’s book for her birthday at Dienst & Dotter in the West Village. The store is on a block I don’t visit often and the exterior is a little cold and a little vacant and a little reminiscent of a high end frame shop, but I’m pleasantly surprised inside. We’re the only people in the store and everything is all dark Scandinavian wood and tables from the Middle Ages and towards the back there’s a corner of paintings and chairs and a long rug that I want to preserve in exaction and transport to a home. The design feels liveable. Practical, almost, despite the mysticism engrained in the craftsmanship and the age of the pieces on display. The children’s book I buy my mom has a hard teal blue cover and a gold feather inside and an inscription and half the writing in English and then, if read from back to front, half the writing in French. I buy it because the illustrations remind me of my favorite book The Wind Boy which is the most beautiful book in the world, and also because fairytales are a more beautiful thing to collect than coffee table books in general. After, I’m at Lafayette Bakery because it’s empty on a Monday morning, although it’s not very good and so I don’t know why there are ever lines at all. Later, I’m at Le Dive for one margarita right before they close. In between, it’s so hot and everything is so slow and the hours are running circles and circles around each other. Tuesday, June 25 Too hot for steak, but I go for dinner at Knickerbocker Bar and Grill anyways. Knickerbocker is not the only steakhouse in New York , but it is the best. It’s better in the winter, but it’s good now too. Ordering: sea bream, salad, steak with creamed spinach and fries and onion rings. Bartering diet coke with my sister in exchange for promises to help move the dead trees off my roof. I’m making a list of restaurants that are actually special in New York because I hated Bar Pitti so much. My list is pretty small because I pretty much only like places that are cozy and that serve roast duck, but Knickerbocker makes the cut. Knickerbocker is number one. Wednesday, June 26 The heat wave is making everything languid and slow. I wake up at six and then again at ten and then I’m walking on the treadmill writing out MY AMBITIONS. I’m making sure my plans are very precise. Later, I’m sitting in Washington Square Park eating birthday cake kitkat, blueberries, diet pepsi. I’m feeling really into things like central AC and Stanley Cup tumblers and IHateIroning NYC pay-for-pick-up laundry lately. I’m quenching the heat with aesthetic decay. Thursday, June 27 I’m reading for Perennial NYC on Ellie’s roof uptown and I’m reading the same story I always read lately which means it’s probably time for some new material, but I like reading it here. Later, I’m driving back downtown to Strange Party #1 and then Strange Party #2. There’s another party after that is less strange and that is full of my friends, but I’m going home instead. Friday, June 28 I’m waking up ill but I recover by noon. Evening, I’m walking to SARA’S at Dunkensthalle for the opening of NADJA . It’s a group exhibition presented through the lens of the Andre Breton novel. I arrive after the performance element of the evening, but rumor has it there was blood. Dunkensthalle is small, and I really like how the exhibition fills the space - not cramped, not empty. I want to read NADJA now. Perhaps the best Surrealist romance ever written, it says on Amazon. After, I’m walking to The River (closed, private event) and then I’m walking to Time Again for the afterparty for SARA’S and also for two other galleries, although I’m not sure which ones. Time Again is packed and it’s illuminated red inside and I can see sardines on baguette being piled high on the counter, but when I order the sardines and a paloma I am told the kitchen is closed. That’s ok. I’ve never been here before and I like it. I’m sitting outside on a stool that it clearly made to hold drinks and not people. Someone brings me a chair, and so then I’m sitting in the chair. People are talking about Berlin and I’m tempted to say that this bar reminds me of Berlin but I don’t because it’s annoying, and also because I don’t know if that’s really true. I never really miss Berlin, but I do sometimes miss being alone in a city that is sprawling. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tonight: Monday, July 8 at 7pm - Ev Christensen celebrates the launch of her debut single “spectacularity” at 442 Broadway . Additional performers include Lea Jaffe , Kembra Pfahler , and Megsuperstarprincess . Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm - Lucky American Films x Uncensored New York presents the premiere of BRUTALIST COUTURE by Jonathan Rosado. There will be a Q+A moderated by Adam Lehrer (of Safety Propaganda) and a panel featuring Jonathan Rosado, Salomé , and Roman D’Ambrosio. After party at Home Sweet Home hosted by Label NYC , among others. Also Wednesday, July 10 from 9pm to late - Devil’s Workshop brings rock and roll to the club at Jean’s . Live performances by Beau , The Kindergarten , and The Lovinas . Lots going on this Thursday, July 11 : 6-8pm - Matt Weinberger presents his solo photo exhibition NEW YORK IS at The Sitting Room . There’s been a plethora of niche meme renditions of the exhibition flier to drum up buzz, so this should be packed. 7pm - midnight - Cracks in Pomo launches the zine vol ii with a party at The Rose . Discourse is banned - “only of dancing, drinking, and smoking”. Free Hestia cigs and Masa chips . From 6-9pm with a party to follow - Blade Study celebrates the opening of Em Aull ’s painting show Never Too Much . The party portion of the evening will feature a hot dog vendor and free Slurpees in honor of 7/11 Saturday, July 13 from 6-8pm - Artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache celebrates the launch of her poetry collection Goodnight Sweet Thing at Amant . Natasha Stagg , Hannah Baer , and Mara Mckevitt will also be reading on the occasion. Sunday, July 14 from 2:30 to 4:30pm and 7:30 to 9:30pm - Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research will showcase the final Act 1 Workshop Presentation of A Doll House . Open rehearsal workshops through the upcoming week will allow viewers to observe rehearsals, and engage in conversation with the director and cast. Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30pm - Anthology Film Archive presents a special screening of HOT TICKET by Zoë Lund. The premiere of the film’s new restoration follows a series of readings and performances of Lund’s early poetry and select scenes from her screenplays. The program will be introduced by Stephanie LaCava , Manon Lutanie , and Robert Lund . The readers and performers for the event will include LaCava, Dasha Nekrasova , and Diamond Stingily . Lots of literary happenings on Thursday, July 18 From 6:30 - 8:30pm , Left Bank Books celebrates the release of Love Poems by Rene Ricard (Editions Lutanie, 2024). Readings by Raymond Foye , Annabella Sciorra , and Rachel Valinsky . At KGB - Caitlin Dee is hosting a Meditations for Party Girls reading, featuring Caitlin Dee , Sophia June , Jomé Rain, Nicky Josephine , Emily Danielle , Toni Kochensparger , and a magic ritual by Sarah Potter (magic is the theme of the summer). From 7pm - New York Review of Architecture celebrates the launch of issue #41 with a party at DSK Brooklyn Friday, July 19 at 8pm - Beckett Rosset and TENSE are back at The Locker Room for a Sultry Summer Soirée . August Lamm , Nico Walker , Peter Vack , and Beckett himself, will be reading, accompanied by performances from Cassidy Grady and Johnny St. Grace , and a theater presentation directed by Beckett Rosset, Jonah Howell , Mia Vallet , and Noelle Franco . Jack Skelley is in town next week for a few events surrounding the publication of his new novel Myth Lab . Wednesday, July 17 - Jack will be at PowerHouse Arena in conversation with Whitney Mallett (of T he Whitney Review ) and Jillian Luft . Another event to follow on Saturday, July 20 at Old Flings , hosted by DIRTY MAG x PETIT MORT . More details forthcoming, but the lineup is fun, and Myth Lab is a very special book that calls for a very special celebration. Chloe Pingeon is a writer and arts publicist based in New York Inquires: chloegpingeon@gmail.com Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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