Blooming flowers and the proliferation of shorts means it’s now safe to head outdoors and embark upon the first of many warm weather adventures. While Brooklyn’s Red Hook presents some challenges during the winter months (a lacking of transportation contributes to both the atmosphere of an untouched enclave as...
Read moreThese days, being a multi-hyphenate is simply part of the game, where young men and women carve a space for themselves as well-branded and well-dressed quadruple threats. Their talents and interests span outward, expanding and limitless. Case in point: Zara Martin. The model and TV host works double duty, posting...
Read moreLeave it to the globetrotters to know where the best spots to shop are. Jetsetting the world over, Kristina Bazan, the young woman behind the popular fashion blog Kayture, cultivates and refines her taste with every trip, finding the best shops and stores in between meetings and sidewalk snaps....
Read moreBrooklyn-based artist B. Thom Stevenson trades in appropriation, altering the visual languages of the past to create something new. With a swath of paint and an airbrush compressor, he manipulates everything from No Fear slogans to pre-Internet punk flyers. His neo-pop expressionist works are a purposeful cultural blasphemy where...
Read moreFrom the below-the-decks sheen of Lure Fishbar to the swank ‘70s influences of El Toro Blanco, restaurateur John McDonald creates unique, 360 atmospheres that elevate the dining experience. They are specific without kitsch, well-designed but never heavy-handed. Luxurious and refined, McDonald provides Manhattan with the types of places where...
Read moreIf the downtown hotels packed with celebrities and cinefiles are any indication, Tribeca Film Fest is upon us again. In its 14th year, the Manhattan movie-going set is about to have its fill of socially minded documentaries, indie sleeper hits, and more. The schedule–running April 15th through the 26th–is...
Read moreElisa Marshall and Ben Sormonte are a team in practically every sense of the word. Partners in love and business, the charming couple are the pair behind SoHo’s chicest new bakery, Maman. A light and airy space where the brioche and chouquettes runneth over, the cafe and bakery offers...
Read moreSucculents are practically synonymous with Southern California. The spear-like points of agaves, the green bloom of aeoniums, the red floral spears rising from aloe. Whether you’re at a backyard LA BBQ or in the middle of the Mojave, these plants are like familiar friends, as ubiquitous as palm trees...
Read moreThe floor is littered with open tubes of paint, half-empty aerosol cans, pliers, protractors. It is a horizontal chaos, the aftermath of an artist’s process just before the work is moved from its messier origins and placed on a clean gallery wall, all the spills and sweat left on swaths...
Read moreIn just three short years, LA native Kelsey Harper, the eyes and heart behind Flower Girl Los Angeles, has created something of a floral dynasty on the West Coast. Her bespoke arrangements and beatific crowns (no dynasty is complete without one, surely) have made their way into the halls...
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