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Okay, I know Bastille Day is over, but our party isn’t!
Tomorrow, Saturday, July 17th, join us at our Northampton or Amherst stores, or at our website, Shop Essentials, for savings and fun!
Need the details? Our blog, La Motif has the Bastille Day Rules.
Here’s some of the fun you can expect:
ESSENTIALS’ FOURTH ANNUAL BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATION!
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I wonder how much a last minute ticket to Tokyo would cost me so that I could spend May 15th and 16th at Design Festa. Billed at Asia’s largest International Art Event, the festival gathers nearly 3000 artists and crafters for two days of exhibitions, music, and food celebrating art. (via) The festival, which happens [...]

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My husband and I are both big fans of America’s Best Dance Crew and if we had the chance to go on the MTV show Made, we’d both become Hip-Hop dancers. (Okay-pathetic ones, yes, but we’d have fun.) Needless to say, there was no way we were missing the chance to see incredible Hip-Hop virtuoso [...]

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The Bento Battle has begun, and let me tell you people–IT IS ON!
April 10th, The Japan Society in New York will be sponsoring the j-Cation Taste Japan celebration, a day dedicated to the theme of Japanese food in its cinematic, musical, auditory, and sensory incarnations.
Can’t make it to NY? No matter. The real fun is the [...]

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If you are in the Princeton, New Jersey area tomorrow, don’t miss Too Cute: American Style & The New Asian Cool, on campus at Princeton University.

With a Keynote Address by Eric Nakamura, Publisher and Editor of Giant Robot, the conference “explores the relationship between style and race through the lens of ‘Asian cuteness…Participants will discuss [...]

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