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Prep for Valentine’s Day with Our Ultimate Gift Guide

Prep for Valentine’s Day with Our Ultimate Gift Guide

The first day of February makes us think of the upcoming holiday…Valentine’s Day. Scrambling for last minute gifts for friends, family and lovers is no fun, so let us help! Whether you’re shopping for yourself, your galentines or even your pet, there’s a little something for everyone. For everyone:  It’s a no brainer to go with chocolate for Valentine’s Day. […]

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Celebrate Yourself With A Conversation With Walt Whitman

Celebrate Yourself With A Conversation With Walt Whitman

A few months ago, a young aspiring actress and director by the name of Pilar Gonzalez was standing in line (as many of us Manhattanites are very used to) waiting to get through security in a building where she was about to begin her work shift for the day. As she moved slowly towards the door, she found herself focusing […]

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Swipe No More: Online Dating Just Got More Enticing!

Swipe No More: Online Dating Just Got More Enticing!

Single in the city? We feel your pain. In this day and age, chances are you or a friend you know have tried online dating. From Tinder and Bumble to Grindr and Plenty of Fish, there are a ton of apps and sites that cater to the unattached. While their intentions me be good, a lot of them have become […]

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2015 Top Ten Off and Off-Off Broadway productions: A Celebration

2015 Top Ten Off and Off-Off Broadway productions: A Celebration

Yes! We survived the holidays!!!! They are over!! It’s the beginning of a New Year, but what a year was 2015 for theater enthusiasts! Outside the big shiny area with names  like “Hamilton,” or “Spring Awakening,” productions were wowing audiences. The festivals provided us with terrific productions from independent companies that have to hustle and grind to do what they love. […]

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“Noma: My Perfect Storm” is a Love Letter to a Culinary Genius

“Noma: My Perfect Storm” is a Love Letter to a Culinary Genius

Do you live in the city we cover? Manhattan and its five boroughs offer the most diverse group of people this side of the pond, and that includes cuisines. We are spoiled living in such a melting pot, that no matter where we go, chances are there is a bomb restaurant around the corner. But guess what? We do not […]

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“Once Upon A Mattress” is Forgettable but Definitely Entertaining

“Once Upon A Mattress” is Forgettable but Definitely Entertaining

The holidays are here once again my dear readers, what a grand time to be in the city. Crowded streets full of tourists that can’t walk for some reason and somehow without communicating create an explosive mess of our city in unison. The stores we love can’t barely be inhabited and every night Uber surges its prices. But the one […]

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Last Minute Holiday Gifts for Under $100

Last Minute Holiday Gifts for Under $100

Hawaiian Body Products Lip Moisturizer ($6) Global Wine Cellars Entertainment Collection ($100) Window Box Pussy Willow Wreath ($58.97) Bijouxx Jewels Freshwater Pearl Stud Earrings ($39.99) Essenza Soap Holiday Scents ($3.99) Squirrel & The Bee Chocolate-Chip-A-Holics ($8+) Beau Ties Ltd. Holiday Bow Tie ($45) Bittersweet Hair Tie Bracelet ($45-$85) Hynt Beauty Aria Pure Lipstick ($29) Brett Lauren B’s ($38-$100) Procrastination is […]

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A New York Kind of Christmas

A New York Kind of Christmas

We’ve got five awesome options for gifts for New Yorkers. Or former New Yorkers. Or to-be New Yorkers. Or non-Yorkers. All of the above. These are the New Yorkiest of gifts to give this holiday season.   If you have any tots in your life you need to dress, consider Wyatt Lily, a cheeky New York City fashion boutique. Both the […]

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“How To Get Into Buildings” Brings Absurdism and Love to The Brick

“How To Get Into Buildings” Brings Absurdism and Love to The Brick

  Crowd ready. Butts on their seats. Cell Phones off (hopefully.) An announcement to make sure everyone knows the etiquette of watching a theatrical production, and to ask for the audience to please follow it. Now the lights dim till there’s complete darkness. What comes next is pretty routine, the lights come back up and the show starts. Many with […]

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Uncomfortably Beautiful “The Pillowman” Playing at the Clarion Theater

Uncomfortably Beautiful “The Pillowman” Playing at the Clarion Theater

The ending of this play is what I’ll start this review with. Not a spoiler. I will not talk about the ending, but of the power of the ending. What a writer would do for his stories to survive. The idea that your work at the end will determine your worth. That family is second to your children, which are […]

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