Shark Week has been a national phenomenon for years. The Discovery Channel pays homage to the misunderstood underwater creatures people find so fascinating in a weeklong programming special each summer. This year, it takes place earlier than ever and we are smack dab in the middle of it! Each year, Shark Week seems to get a bigger and better following, […]

They say that New Yorkers are always in search of their dream apartment. Well Instrata Luxury Residences are attracting new residents and charming their current ones, so you might want to think about hopping on the bandwagon. What’s so special about Instrata? Just about everything! The development company has three locations throughout Manhattan and a location in Brooklyn Heights. If […]

Oh, the good old days! I’m talking about the days when if you wanted to start a band, you had to provide the garage to practice in. You didn’t have Facebook, so to find the perfect bunch of misfits to partake in your rock star dream was a lot harder. But once everything clicked, those jam sessions were part of […]

There isn’t anything New Yorkers are more obsessed with than brunch. We brunch on Saturday. We brunch on Sunday, and if we weren’t the busiest people on earth, we would squeeze in a brunch or two during the week. So when I was invited to a brunch event at the Handy Liquor Bar, I jumped at the opportunity. This particular […]

When Daniel Echevarria set out to compose a production of “Othello,” he had a specific goal in mind, one that not only meant a great deal to him, but one that means a great deal to a wide community of passionate people. Though many are well aware of Othello’s story (he is, after all, a product of the overwhelming genius […]

Recently having had to cancel a much-anticipated trip to the New Orleans Jazz Festival, I was feeling a little bummed out. I had just envisioned myself, a nice bourbon on the rocks in hand, eyes closed, nodding along to the sweet sounds of the saxophones and trumpets, as the music flowed into my ears and through my brain, right down […]

Father’s Day is getting closer and closer. If, like me, you find shopping for your pop to be extremely difficult, you probably spend days googling gift ideas prior to the big holiday. Think a little bit outside of the box this year, with some of our great gift options for dad! For the beer loving dad, think a little outside […]

May is like January, a gate into so much of the year. Summer is about to start. The big blockbusters start coming out in the movie theaters and we willingly pay around $18 a ticket. Pools, parks, restaurants are about to start blossoming out of nowhere. Tourists start flooding our streets on a more regular basis, being somehow more lost than […]

Through Montage of Heck, which was showcased at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, we get an intimate look of Kurt Cobain’s life as if we were taking a peek through a key hole. The documentary is the first of its time to be created with partnership from Cobain’s family, along with Chris Novoselic (Nirvana’s band member), his first girlfriend, and wife Courtney Love, […]

A single light shines on a brooding man. Empty space feeds emptiness. Moonlight After Midnight, written and performed by Martin Dockery and Vanessa Quesnelle, appears as an exploration of a classic love story at first; but it quickly, miraculously, transforms into a journey of love, memory, and loss. Quoted as an “emotional kaleidoscope” by the Winnipeg Free Press, Moonlight After […]