November 2008 Must Haves:
Music: Belle and Sebastian BBC Live Sessions. 
This 2 disc album includes 4 previously unavailable songs is in stores November 18th.
Fashion Scene: Textured, Decorative Tights!
Movie ticket: Gardens of the Night in theaters November 4th.
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Book: No One Belongs Here More Than You, short stories by Miranda July. The New York Times calls it “funny and insightful, offering moments of utter heartbreak through deeper, more sophisticated storytelling”.
Hot Ticket: School of Seven Bells opens up for M83 at Webster Hall November 14th.
December 2008 Must Haves:
Music: Cat Power’s Dark End of The Street 
You can find her newest album of cover songs in Stores December 9th.
Fashion Scene: Headbands in all shapes and sizes, colors and fabrics were seen on the Fall/Winter runways. I’m especially liking the braided look.
Movie Ticket: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in Theaters December 25th.
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Book: 
The Reader is an award winning novel by Bernhard Schlick, a german law professor and judge. The story deals with the generation following the holocaust told through the eyes of Michael Berg at three separate times in his life. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star in the up-coming film adaptation, of the same name, in theaters December 10th.
Concert Ticket: The Walkmen and The Dodos play at the Brooklyn Mesonic Temple on December 16th. Tickets are $20.
January 2009 Must Haves:
Music: 
Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavillion
In Stores January 20th. The album is a dreamy mix of indie rock-freak folk.
Concert Ticket: Department of Eagles
Check out this heavily folky band at The Bowery Ballroom on January 19th, 2009.
Movie Ticket: Stellet Licht in Theaters January 9th.
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Book: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by Andre Jordan, 
in stores January 6th.
Full of drawings and prose from the author this collection of pieces is a good reminder of how tough life can be and just how funny it all is.
February 2009 Must Haves:
Movie Ticket: Two Lovers in theaters February 13th.
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Album: Asobi Seksu LP Hush in stores February 17th
12 tracks of pure dream pop sure to remind you of the shoegazing era from the late 1980′s.
Ticket: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Chairlift @ Brooklyn Academy of Music February 13th. Two Brooklyn based indie rock bands, one hot ticket. Get yours now!
Book: Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction David Sheff writes one of the most heart wrenching accounts of addiction ever to be published.
Theater: 33 Variations opens up for previews February 9th.
The story of Beethoven and his obsessive composing of “Diabelli Variations.”
March 2009 Must Haves:
Album: The Decemberists 
Hazards of Love out March 24th
Book: Voluntary Madness By Norah Vincent. From the author of Self Made Man comes another look into the human psyche, this time Norah checks herself into a mental institution and explores the world of mental health.
Movie: Check out Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in this hilariously moving film about two sisters just trying to get by. Sunshine Cleaning is in theaters March 13th
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Concert Ticket: Akron/Family at the New Museum March 27th
Theater: Opening March 12th ticket holders to Impressionism will be witness to Tony Award winning actors Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen on stage performing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The story follows the two actors as their characters, Thomas Buckle and Katharine Keenan, discover “that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.”
April 2009 Must Haves:
Album: 
Metric‘s Fantasies hits stores April 14th, currently available on itunes today!
Book: “Bodies” by Susie Orbach takes a look at how bodies are shaped by culture, how they are looked at as something to be worked on and reworked on, and how this may be the last 
generation to “inhabit bodies that are familiar to us.”
Concert Ticket: Youthgroup @ Pianos April 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. Only $8!!!!!
Theater: Next to Normal, a new musical from Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, 
opens April 15 at the Booth Theater. The story follows one family in their strife to maintain “normalcy.”
Film: Gigantic, in theaters April 3, 2009.
May 2009 Must Haves:
Concert Ticket: Dark Was The Night Benefit Concert @ Radio City Music Hall with Feist, The National, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors and more. May 3rd, 2009
Movie Ticket: Rudi y Cursi in Theaters May 8th, 2009
Book: 
David Cullen sets out to shoot down(no pun intended) the myths that revolve around this horrible day, and also attempts to answer the question: why did it happen?
Album: Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin in stores May 19th, 2009.
Theater: 
Check out David Hyde Pierce Accent on Youth.
June 2009 Must Haves:
Movie- Year One, out June 19th
Album- Dirty Projectors 
Bitte Orca, comes out Tuesday June 9th
Theatre Ticket- Leslie Ayvazian’s play, Make Me, at Atlantic Theater’s Second Stage in NYC
Book- “Road Dogs” by Elmore Leonard, is the story of a bond between three men who met during their time serving in prison. Leonard is a master of storytelling, especially those of the noir comedy sort.
Concert Ticket- Young Love, Tigercity @ Bowery Ballroom June 2nd, 2009.
August 2009 Must Haves:
Album: 
Anna Ternheim‘s Leaving on a Mayday is set to be released August 11th.
Movie: Julie and Julia in Theaters August 7th. Amy Adams and Meryl Streep are back together on the big screen in the tale about Julia Child (Streep) and Julie Powell (Adams). The film tells two simultaneous stories one Julia Child’s journey to a world renowned cook, and Julie Powell’s struggle to find her niche.
Theater: Burn the Floor opens tonight August 2nd at Longacre Theater. 
Check out this “passionate drama of dance” now the show closes in October.
Literature: That Summertime Sound, debut novel from Matthew Spektor
Concert: Cat Power, Julliette Lewis @ Central Park Summer Stage August 10th.
Here’s a new way to switch up your wardrobe without spending even a penny and it’s all the rage. Grab your girlfriends for a night in and throw a clothes-swap party. All you do is have each person bring the pieces from their wardrobe that they no longer wear and let the economic exchange begin. You never know what you’ll get and besides the fun you’ll be having, there is no time like the present for austerity. 
Cork Accessaries- No, we aren’t wearing wine bottle corks on a necklace chain (although we may be on to something) but clutches and shoes with cork detail are all the rage!
Cropped pants are no longer just for the girls or for the boys that clam dig. 
Not so buttoned up- It may seem a bit 70′s disco-esque but it’s time to loosen up those buttons, the lower you button the better. Also, you’ll find more mens cotton T-shirts in a much lower cut V-neck. Let the chest hair blow in the wind!
Shoe Patches- Time to brush up on your cross stitch. When your shoes begin to wear this year grab the needle and thread. Patch away! Apparently the economy is in rough shape or something.
Henri Bendel’s boutique
FYI: Henri Bendel is now exclusively selling Lindsay Lohan’s line of leggings called 6121 (it supposedly has something to do with Marilyn Monroe’s birthdate).
