Rare Weekend 11.30.06

The Christmas Tree has been lit, now it’s your turn. Let the Holiday Party season begin!

SHOP
Enjoy free cocktails and 25% off all inventory at both Oak stores (designers include Band of Outsiders, Nicole Farhi, Rogues Gallery, Tsubi and their own new tee shirt and jeans line) on Friday from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at Oak : Williamsburg, 208 North 8th Street in Williamsburg (718) 782-0521 and Oak : Park Slope, 668 President Street, (718) 857-2080, www.oaknyc.com.

Score Filippa K, Nudie Jeans, Denim Birds, Acne Jeans, and Whipping Floyd at wholesale prices at the WANT Agency Sample Sale today (11/30) from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. at 435 Hudson Street, Suite 401, www.wantagencyinc.com.

EAT
Escape the approaching cold front by warming up at Kampuchea Noodle Bar, which opens today on the Lower East Side from former Fleur de Sel chef Ratha Chau. Create your own pho and slurp a variety of other Cambodian noodle dishes and stews that you won’t find elsewhere in town. Kampuchea Noodle Bar, 78 Rivington Street (at Allen Street), (212) 529-3901.

SEE
Still pissed that you didn’t “get” Mulholland Drive? Bring it up with director David Lynch at a discussion after the screening of his latest work, Inland Empire on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Plaza (at 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue).

Catch the multi-talented and gut-wrenchingly funny John Leguizamo read from his new book “Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends” that takes him from his Latino roots in Queens to the land of golden opportunity in Hollywood on Friday (12/1) at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, (212-595-6859).

PARTY
Peruse the pretty people and the pretty art at the Guggenheim’s First Fridays monthly soiree tomorrow (12/1) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. $20 gets you inside to enjoy the cash bar, DJ sounds of Telefon Tel Aviv & Deathlab, and of course, the collections. Become
a member and get in for free. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 88th Street), (212) 423-3500, www.guggenheim.org.