Ame Ame Opens First Boutique

Woman-owned functional fashion brand Ame Ame is opening its first boutique in the East Village on Wednesday November 16. Founded and run by a Queens resident, Ame Ame was until now, a Web-based retailer of rain gear, from Wellies to trenches. Celebrate hump day with a jaunt in the East Village and support a woman-owned [...]

Why We Love Showtime

What Showtime does is to glamorize the failures of contemporary commoners skirting the edge of normalcy. Nurse Jackie has a soul but serves her own kind of justice while she works doubles in a NYC hospital, fueled off an affair and a little nose candy. Californication chronicles the love and mistakes of those individuals that [...]

Bond No. 9 Releases New Fragrance

Maybe boutique fragrance house Bond No.9 is indulging in a little nostalgia with its latest release, Madison Square Park. The press release says “Madison Square Park was the height of fashion in the Gilded Age.” I guess I didn’t know the area then. The area around Madison Square Park includes Flatiron and Gramercy Park, as well as [...]

Free Spring Cleaning Downtown

I wish I lived in ATL now because I’d kill for a free Brazilian. If you don’t have the desire to at least try the Brazilian bikini wax, you probably aren’t getting any. That’s a shame because sex, safe of course, is a great way to alleviate stress. Back to the matter at hand. The [...]

New Product Review: Natural Fruit Soda

Corn syrup-free fruit sodas are nothing new but this brand might help bring the trend outside of the treehugger demographic. The brainchild of Portland, Oregon-based David Yudkin and his family, HOTLIPS is a line of “natural fruit sodas” made from produce picked from the Pacific Northwest region. HOTLIPS is not the family’s first foray into [...]

Glasgow Gets Swanky Budget Hotel

This fall marked Dutch hotel group citizenM’s first opening outside Amsterdam. The hospitality house opened its third location, in Glasgow, Scotland, further expanding its offerings and marking its place in the “affordable luxury” hotel business. The company, whose name refers to the concept “mobile,” introduced the new 198-room hotel in what was once a troubled [...]

Hip Gifts

Among New York City’s best graffiti artists is Toofly, a Queens, NY, native and one half of the female team behind art collective The Younity. This year, Toofly is lending her name to a great indie shopping event in Lower Manhattan. On December 11, the Lower East Side’s The Panda NYC will host an “art [...]

Beverage Trend: Spicy Cocktails

Last year elderberry cocktails were all the rage. Apparently, this is the season of spicy drinks. Every other restaurant I visited in the last few weeks had a chili or jalapeno cocktail on the menu. The upscale Thai restaurant housed in downtown Manhattan’s 60 Thompson hotel, Kittichai, was my first introduction to spicy alcoholic beverages. [...]

Sample Sale Alert: LA & NYC

New York City and Los Angeles residents have two great sample sales to look forward to this month. Going on in NYC through this weekend, Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion hosts a sample sale for the cult denim company Rock & Republic. Meanwhile, in a few weeks, LA fashionistas can stock up on everyday staples such as [...]

Love, Music & NYC

Everyone knows dreamers don’t marry for they are already married–to their dream. When you are young, the kind of love you will have with a dreamer is intoxicating and powerful. You think you are lucky to have met such a person, to have that movie kind of love, to realize that it is possible to [...]

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