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CBGBs With Chocolate
03-29-05
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(press release) Winner of the 2004 Timeout
New York Eat Award for �Best Chocolate Store� and New York�s candy store
for grown-ups, Chocolate Bar celebrates CBGBs: Home of Underground Rock
with limited-edition products dedicated to saving Manhattan�s cultural
institution. For more than 30 years, the eternal downtown nightclub has
with ragged pride, served as the incubator for much of the punk and art-rock
which came out of New York over the last thirty years including The Ramones,
Patti Smith, Television, Blonde and The Talking Heads. Founded in 1973
by Hilly Kristal, the now grandfatherly 73-year-old converted a Hell�s
Angels hangout into one of the most famous venues for live music and in
doing so established a New York City landmark. Debuting this May, 2005,
Chocolate Bar, in collaboration with Hilly Kristal unveils two edible lines
of CBGB products including the CBGBs Punk Rock Box ($25.00); a 16 piece
truffle collection embossed with the pioneering history and iconic
imagery of CBGBs illustrious music scene. Served in a chocolate brown box,
hot-stamped with the venues famed logo, it comes complete with a postage-paid
petition to save CBGBs, a record-shaped biography, steel logo keychain
and a collection of CBGB stickers. CBGB Retro Bars ($3.00 each); Inspired
by those colossal flavors from late-night, post-show snack attacks, discover
pure 1970 nostalgia with two new retro flavors. Each is wrapped in a limited-edition
CBGBs keepsake, weighs an impressive 2.25 ounces and comes complete with
a postage-paid petition to save the venerable venue. Chocolate Bar is located
at 48 Eighth Avenue between Horatio and Jane Streets. Consumers can order
product for delivery anywhere in the U.S. by calling 1.800.481.2462 or
by visiting www.chocolatebarnyc.com.
antiTainment returns! now anti once again goes beyond just music!
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