May 2010
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We Made It Pop
Here’s some shots from the benefit we hosted last night in The Cleaners at Ace PDX. Everyone who played was terrific. Colin Meloy drank some red wine and played new songs from the upcoming Decemberists album. Where there would have been guitar solo, there was instead audience whistling. There were local cupcakes, homemade ice cream, and locally brewed beers, but a big treat was Colin’s...
April 2010
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WatchShepard Fairey and friends wheatpasted a plywood wall around Ace Hotel New York last night. Here’s a video of the installation going up and some pictures of the work. As you know, we have a package for Shepard’s exhibition at Deitch Projects — their final show ever. If you book today or tomorrow, it includes tickets to the afterparty for the opening May 1. It also includes a...
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Make It Pop
Tomorrow night, we’re hosting Make It Pop!, a benefit with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, at The Cleaners in Ace Hotel Portland. It’s a fundraiser for PDX Pop Now!, an organization that works to support and strengthen Portland’s incredible, diverse independent music community. We’re really honored to help.
They’re also raffling off a two-night stay at Ace...
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Art of Exchange at Ace Palm Springs
We just wrapped up a seriously amazing weekend with Karen Kimmel and The Art of Exchange at Ace Palm Springs. 90 kids and their parents and friends showed up to craft it up, eat s’mores and a fresh, organic menu of kid-friendly meals, make friends, and take home their amazing art projects. Some of our favorite shots are the fakin’ bacon, a sneaky Havaianas x Ace flip flop toe, and...
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Gormley & LaMousse
We’re sending Jana DeHart two drink tickets for the Ace NYC lobby bar so she can celebrate her Gormley fame this week. She’s our winner for Week 3 of the contest. Our new entries are up, too. They include a Gormley clone walking a poodle. Alma says of her photo: “That is my mini-poodle LaMousse, and being French, she loves men — all men!!!” (exclamation marks...
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Affordable Art Fair x Ace Hotel New York
The Affordable Art Fair runs from May 6 - 9 and has works from both newcomers and established artists you’ve heard of. All the art is between $100 and $10,000. Stay with us while you’re picking up some cheap art for your place. We have a special package that includes two private preview invitations and two day passes to the fair, two passes to the Museum of Arts and Design, and a Medium King...
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THE OUTDOOR CLUB
Ryan Huber of Context invited Cultural Engineer and Curator for Ace Hotel New York, Jou-Yie Chou, Andrea Westerlind of the Swedish Outdoor brand Fjällräven, Annemarie Ahearn of Salt Water Farm and his friend and Wisconsin native, Colin K. Hughes of The Institute of Transportation & Development Policy out to Madison this February to get a taste of winters in the Midwest and the local...
