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  • Things to boycott: Michael Jackson pub crawl

    Posted in Eat Out by Jordana Rothman on July 1st, 2009 at 11:47 am

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    City Winery’s Michael Dorf may have been quick on the trigger with his controversial MJ tribute event, but the question of taste seemed to have at least occurred to him. The same can’t be said of the Village Pourhouse group, which fired off an e-mail chockablock with hee-hawing Jacko references this morning about its upcoming King of Pop pub crawl. This is parasitic gutter PR at its most vile.

    Read the entire e-mail after the jump—at peril of encouraging any undue patronage, we’ve redacted the locations of the crawl. Read more »

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