From the theater company that brought you last year’s award winning hit, Love in the Time Machines, (Audience Choice Award, Frigid New York, 2013) comes a brand new solo show, Drag Queen Stole My Dress. The autobiographical tale from Toronto’s Gillian English tells the story of love, loss, casino show girls, and a drag queen with kleptomania. In this one […]

Fashion week in New York is never complete without Nolcha Fashion Week. This season Nolcha Fashion Week exceeded our expectations. The presenting sponsor, RUSK, was joined by official sponsors: Smartwater, DonQ Rum, Air Europa, Defiant Whisky, Medical Aesthetics, Ono E-Cigs, Skinny Girl Sparklers, and Fashionmonitor.com. I attended the final show of the evening which featured five designers returning to Nolcha […]

Danish contemporary interiors retailer BoConcept, along with nendo, the Japanese design house led by Oki Sato, introduced fusion, a design collaboration that will arrive in BoConcept stores nationwide on April 1. The global launch event was held at the Scandinavia House in New York City February 6. Manhattan with a Twist was there to celebrate the launch. An amazing assortment of Danish and Japanese […]

  It’s that time of year again, New Yorkers. You know that thrilling time in New York when stylists, designers, bloggers, editors, models and showrooms come together for fashion week. My first fashion week invite was from exceptional designer Ann Yee. For fall/winter 2014, Ann Yee found inspiration in the concept of the modern nomad. A mix of textures represent […]

Where can you go in New York City for an audience interactive theater performance? Beertown, of course! Part civic ceremony, part theatric pageant, the show welcomes audiences into the 20th Beertown Time Capsule Day celebration, where every five years the imagined small American town unearths its beloved time capsule and ritualistically reviews its contents. That’s right, imagined! You heard correctly. […]

There are fragrance launches, and then there are fragrance launches. Without question, the launch of XOXO LUV, fell into the latter category. XOXO LUV is a new fragrance for today’s hopeless romantics, available just in time for Valentine’s Day. XOXO LUV has a blended scent of pink peonies and citrus, capturing those spellbinding moments of love. Decorated with red balloons, pink […]

Music and fashion are my two favorite things, which is why I became elated when I had the opportunity to chat with fashion stylist Kimberly V Gedeon. She has been responsible for some of my favorite looks on some of my favorite musicians. Kimberly V has styled everyone from Ne-Yo and Drake to late night shows like Chelsea Lately. Never […]

With the abundance of high-tech social media like Facebook, instant messaging and video chat, ways of keeping in touch with loved ones seem to be easier. Or is it? With so many ways to connect with people indirectly, are we losing that intimate, one to one connection with loved ones? Drawing from actual emails, chat transcripts, and text messages, We […]

Beer festivals have become synonymous with the summer season in New York City. But Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten decided to shake things up this year. Being the first biergarten of it’s kind in New York City, Loreley’s is giving us a taste of Germany with its first annual Winter Beer Festival. During the winter, Germans like to drink stronger, more […]

New York City has no shortage of Italian cuisine. One of the city’s favorite staples has been Dopo Teatro, a trattoria in the famous theater district of Manhattan. Dopo Teatro has been synonymous with fine Italian cuisine for many years and they decided to bring their extraordinary cuisine to the Upper East Side. Italian being my favorite food, I was all […]