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28 Sep 2009

"I Kill You, Scum": Clean the Bathroom

My bedroom currently has clothes strewn on a chair, on the floor, a stack of magazines perched precariously on the bedside table and a series of glasses which grows each day since my boyfriend simply must have a glass of water next to the bed at night but cannot seem

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25 Sep 2009

I Heart New York and Stuff

Few things are more iconic than the I “HEART” NY logo that has been emblazoned on shopping bags, T-shirts and virtually everything else imaginable and has spawned a billion imitators.  The designer,  seminal creative icon Milton Glaser has been honored at an SVA exhibition devoted to his work and this

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21 Sep 2009

Fuck Ray's: The Best Slices in Manhattan

Almost a year ago I gave up eating dairy. Obviously, since fire is hot, and the sky is blue and cheese is one of the best things in life, it really sucked.  Health-wise the difference has been nothing short of transformative but cheese is still amazing, and pizza in New

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18 Sep 2009

FREE: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend

Today marks the beginning of the long, sad farewell to Spring ’10 Fashion Week.  The white tents slowly collapse, the incessant New York Magazine Fashion Updates finally cease and a dehydrated and caffeine-addled Rachel Zoe flies back to Los Angeles and her hyperbaric chamber in which she will sleep until

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14 Sep 2009

High and Low: Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien

As a Broke-Ass who,  as my father has often put it, has “champagne taste on a beer budget” it has often been my belief that some cosmic error was made which placed this young woman in the financial situation that was meant to be mine, and placed me in one

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11 Sep 2009

New York Gypsy Festival

“ When you speak about “gypsy music” you are drawing from a diaspora of countries and ethnicities where centuries-old history goes hand in hand with new innovations.” – Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede NY Gypsy Festival Producers My freshman year of college I was complaining to a friend about how

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04 Sep 2009

Allen Ginsburg and the HOWL Festival

So this is it kids, summertime is officially over and this weekend marks the death rattle! For NYC people its been a bit of a weird summer: no sun until July, an extreme and very smelly heat wave and the death of like a billion public figures which of course

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