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After a hectic week of tests, papers, and meetings with professors, I had quite an appetite for both a hot meal and a chance to sit down with some friends. Thursday night had finally arrived, and my friends and I decided to try the Hummus Place’s newest branch that opened up on 98th and Broadway.
Comments | Posted on February 7, 2010 | Categories: Dining, From the Blog, Uncategorized, Upper West Side
Every profession has its after-work scene that provides food, drink and therapy to ease the stress imposed by the stressful 9 to 5. But this ‘Work hard, Play hard’ mentality is by no means an exclusively American phenomenon. Tanuki Tavern introduces a new facet to New York’s daring trends in gastropub-culture, influenced by Japan’s nocturnal hot-spot for the sushi-serving industry, the Izakaya. By both New York and Japanese standards, Tanuki is one impressively executed boozing-and-grazing locale.
Comments | Posted on February 6, 2010 | Categories: Chelsea, Dining, From the Blog, Nightlife
What will you find at the Upper West Side Greenflea Market? Stuff–and a lot of it, at that. Greenflea, open Sundays year-round, features an enormous variety of swag for the fearless treasure-hunters. Those in search of antique international money, vintage glasses frames, hand-painted Israeli dishes, imitation snakeskin jackets for dogs, or deliciously spicy pickles, Greenflea has it all.
Comments | Posted on February 6, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Uncategorized, Upper West Side
Tucked into the seam between Chinatown and SoHo exists a doorway into a fantastically shocking space of recluse—the Bowery Poetry Club. Through an entrance way into a rather innocent-looking café, then through a darker hallway and bar area, under a thick velvet curtain and, finally, into a cavernous performance space, the journey to the Bowery hints at the transforming experience that is to come. $7 permits entrance to the 7:00 pm poetry reading, and included with admission is the opportunity to include your own name on the list of those to read.
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The audience is filled with an incredibly diverse range of people, with every age, ethnicity and background seemingly represented (to my right, a man from Seattle sporting a fantastically dramatic handlebar mustache and bright blue leopard print shirt; to my left a black, lesbian, native New Yorker). The crowd alone made it one of the most entertaining evenings money could buy.
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Comments | Posted on February 5, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Nightlife, SoHo
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Art After Dark: First Fridays at the Guggenheim: Have you ever had the dying urge to see what it would be like to party in a museum? Of course you have!
Comments | Posted on February 3, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Midtown East, Nightlife, Uncategorized, Upper East Side, Williamsburg
Before Chelsea’s club scene heyday, the obsession with cupcakes, and prohibition-themed speakeasies, there was Bongo. Nearly 11 years after the conception of Jeffrey Bell and Andrea Cohen’s 27th St. brainchild, they have reproduced a sister location on the periphery of the West Village that delivers the same mid-century modern ambiance, artfully-crafted cocktails and famed Lobster Rolls, all long-revered by their loyal patrons of the past decade, and hopefully enticing enough for some new ones.
Comments | Posted on February 1, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Nightlife
It was a freezing Friday night. I stood with my friend outside the humble façade of the Red Velvet Lounge on the Lower East Side, unaware of what it belied. Eager to be relieved of the cold, our discomfort was instantly averted by the scene that greeted us inside. This place had ambition.
And why shouldn’t it? After all, the Red Velvet Lounge has pedigree. For starters, it’s owned by the same creative minds that brought us the swanky cocktail lounge, The Eldridge. Additionally, the interior design—a modern twist on classic French Rococo style—was conceived by Steve Lewis and Marc Dizon, the same team that designed the nightlife-notables Webster Hall and Marquee.
Comments | Posted on January 31, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Lower East Side, Nightlife
It was a Sunday. It had been a very wet Sunday, and still, I trudged to the Lower East Side to one of New York’s Meccas of radical intellectual thought: Bluestockings Bookstore.
Comments | Posted on January 29, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog, Lower East Side
Enter The Slayer: an $18,000 espresso machine, one of only 20 in the world and the main selling point for my trek down to Tribecca for a cup of coffee at the newly opened RBC NY. Without a doubt, RBC definitely lives up to its reputation as “an exciting new ‘old world,’ tech-savvy, eco-friendly coffee house.”
Comments | Posted on January 28, 2010 | Categories: From the Blog
More lively than your average coffee-shop but in no way a traditional bar, Sip proves to be the perfect choice for an upbeat but low key Monday evening. We were drawn in by the eclectic decor and the irresistible daily special that boasts half-priced food on Mondays. Sip also offers two daily happy hours (5:00-7:00pm & 2:00-4:00am), as well as other weekly specials and an abundance of unique drink options for those over 21.
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Comments | Posted on January 27, 2010 | Categories: Dining, From the Blog, Upper West Side
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