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DIY: Goat Cheese, Onion and White Bean Salad
I basically never cooked anything for real until after college. I grew up in a take-out household, and when my mom did decide to cook it was usually “healthy”, aka dry and sans salt, seasoning, fat or anything else that gives flavor. So yeah, it was a few years of
Unhappy Ending? Sophie Calle at Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC
Art museums are great and all, but in NYC they are always mobbed and usually charge admission. But the truth is, any motivated broke-ass fool can cobble together a few quarters for the suggested admission at the Met or hit up the Free Saturdays at Brooklyn Museum. The real challenge
The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally
“How Much Is that Laser Removal, Again?”
By now everyone, living or dead, knows about our girl Kari the “Hipster Grifter” who parlayed the urban white males offensive fetishization of Asian women into big, big money. When the folks at Vice magazine met her they fell hard for that edgy haircut, childlike eyes and of course the
I Can’t Wait!: Cheap Footwear NYC
It’s hot out, y’all, and beautiful. On the streets of NYC folks are shedding layers like snakes on a rock, caterpillars emerging from their cocoons into butterflies, or beefy, red-faced roadies peeling off their flannel outer layers to reveal the sweaty, fetid Queensryche shirt beneath. It’s time to show those
Style Analysis: I’m Gay For Natasha Khan
Her music is weird and her style is weirder. It’s official: I have a total gay crush on Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes. Not a half-assed ‘girl crush” where I wish she was my BFF or something, but a fully sexual, gay crush. I would get with Natasha Khan
New Yorkers, Get Some Trim!: Bumble and Bumble Model Project
As promised a few weeks back, I did finally fight the fear and I headed over to TopsShop last week to check things out. The store itself is terrifying, with multiple levels, flashing lights, loud music and a sea of Long Island-looking girls dragging their bored, glassy-eyed boyfriends around by
No More Naked Walls: 20×200 and Charmingwall
In college I had some seriously embarrassing posters on my wall. One of those “My Goodness, My Guinness!” vintage beer ads (ha ha, get it? Sometimes I get drunk!) a corny, fake-introspective Van Gogh interior and some horrifically lame William Bouguereau abomination with frolicking cherubs so feminine it practically had
Fancypants Edition: Celebrity Castoffs
Thursday in New York, was a beautiful spring day, the kind that makes you remember why you moved to this town in the first place. It just feels like a picnic lunch, a dress and a light spring coat, smoking a joint on the fire escape overlooking the flowering trees