Exotic name and sleek day-spa packaging notwithstanding, Xoçai (pronounced show-SIGH) is a cousin of the humble Amway products, among the newest in a seemingly endless series of network-marketing ventures.
Seriously cheering news from the Paris front line is that the jewel-box minaudière evening bag (subtext: "my driver's outside") and the sleek minimalist day clutch ("I am chic and streamlined in every possible way") are well and truly over.
(Sulcas) Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal (Friday and Saturday) This sleek troupe of accomplished technicians comes to the Joyce with a sampling of international fare (a few weeks later than planned because of hurricane-related complications).
Cafe LaHaye, 140 East Napa Street, Sonoma, (707) 935-5994, a small but sleek storefront bistro, serves dinner Tuesday through Saturday and brunch on Sunday.
In the workaday harbor here, normally plied by tugs, tankers and freighters laid up for repairs, Le Levant offered a startling contrast on a recent day: a sleek French cruise ship disgorging 50 affluent American tourists.
12 30 p.m. 11) Hobnobbing with the Locals At Cristina's (520 2nd Street East, 208-726-4499) you'll be rubbing elbows (literally) with Sun Valley's locals who pack the tiny, sleek little room for Sunday brunch.
Of course, there are designers who make contemporary-looking clothes, like Olivier Theyskens at Theory, or Wes Gordon, a young New Yorker who has grown in ability and on Monday presented sleek separates, like pants and vivid scarf-print tops and a patent-leather coat in petrol blue.
(Rockwell) *PHILADANCO (Tonight through Sunday) These sleek, propulsive dancers are performing work by Ronald K. Brown, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Jawola Willa Jo Zollar, and Geoffrey Holder's seldom seen "Blues and the Bible: 'Genesis".' Tonight at 8; tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 and 7 30 p.m.; Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212 242-0800 or www.joyce.org; $36.
Open 8am-2am (4am Fri-Sat) FresHotelel With sleek interiors, and a rooftop swimming pool and cocktail bar, Fresh Hotel looks more expensive than it is.
Wearing Steve Madden thigh-highs and a sleek black dress during her Saturday appearance, the Bronx rapper on Saturday definitely looked ready to grace the next issue of Vogue.
"I get around," said Ms. Halliday, who still drives to work every day in her sleek, gray Cadillac.
