On September 8, Fashion’s Night Out – the after-hours music and cocktail-filled fashion extravaganza – will once again descend on the five boroughs.

For a complete list of events (including James Murphy at the VPL block party, Best Coast at Helmut Lang and Beth Ditto at M.A.C.), visit Fashion’s Night Out.

But to those of you interested in staying local, below is a listing of September 8 FNO events in Williamsburg:

Antoinette
119 Grand Street
6:00pm to 11:00pm
DJ Chris Love will spin house disco, funk and soul classics. Champagne served from 6-11pm. Customers who spend $50 will receive a free Antoinette shopping tote.

Artists & Fleas
70 North 7^th Street
6:00pm to 11:00pm
50 vendors will showcase new items from their Fall/Winter collections.
6:00-7:00pm: Fashion Blogger Preview & Styling Tips
7:30-8:30pm: New Line, New Designs: Fashion Show
DJ sets throughout the evening
Vendors include:
ASTALI
BiBi Doan
Churoncalla
Dusty Rose Vintage
FancySexyMe
Gypsy Nation Vintage
Handmade on Peconic Bay
High Horse
Moth 2 a Flame
Pigeon Be Pigeon
Rosee Brackeen
Shmata
SNASH JEWELRY
The Clasp of Isis and Oracle Vintage
The Greedy Seagull, Inc.

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Well, it’s Friday before a holiday weekend and we all know there’s only one option – go out, drink, get buckwild and nurse a mean hangover on a Saturday knowing work ain’t coming round the bend Monday AM. With Summer coming to close, the season of hazy, open-air alcohol-fueled evenings is drifting away… but not quite yet.

Here at BAL we’ve partnered with Exploding In Sound to provide a proper summer send off – an top-to-bottom quality evening of rock at the Cameo Gallery. Seriously, all 4 of these bands fucking crush. You can actually tell your friends to come, knowing that there won’t be a weak set all night.

On tap are NYC mainstays Me You Us Them and Grandfather (fresh off a 35 date tour). Joining them from Boston will be Grass Is Green and the inimitable Pile. This show will rule, come through!, come through!

From Brooklyn Paper

Greenpoint’s most seductive tree has given itself to the wrath of Hurricane Irene.

The so-called “Vagina Tree,” a decades-old London Plane in McCarren Park, toppled from the high winds of this weekend’s tropical storm, damaging an iron fence and a lampost as it fell.

The tree’s distinctive trunk, which looks like it has been around the block a few times, fully lived up to its nickname last April when someone anonymously pierced it with a five-inch metal ring.

The sexy neighborhood curiosity near Bedford Avenue and the McCarren Park tennis courts has attracted a Foursquare page and even hosts its own Twitter feed, @TheVaginaTree.

But Irene’s furiously swirling winds licked the tree forcefully enough to snap it just above its waist on Sunday. All that remains is a spent stump.

The Foursquare’s account is now “closed.” On Monday night, the tree Tweeted what might be its last message: “I am the stump formerly known as Vagina Tree.”