New York is a fat kid’s dream. There are pizza places and bagel shops every 1.5 blocks, as well as trucks waiting for you on the sidewalk when you suddenly crave a chocolate crossiant or flaffel. Normally, it’s totally worth walking a few extra blocks to find an ice cream

So, you’re in between pay periods, and you don’t necessarily want to spend tens of twenties of dollars trying to pick someone up at the Regal Beagle, but still want to have a date (or roll in the hay) on Saturday night?  Well, here are some ideas based on various

TODAY, Thursday, May 13th is the first day of The Deli’s Best of NYC Fest, which ends on Saturday, May 15th.  But guess what?  At precisely 9pm at none other than Public Assembly  in Williamsburg will a band called Midnight Spin be playing. Who is Midnight Spin?  Well, all you

Admittedly, I have put back a beer to calm my nerves before shopping for annoying clothes items. (Annoying because jeans and shoes are more expensive than I want them to be). So Brooklyn Royalty’s new store Kingdom is the best idea I’ve heard in a while. Instead of opening a

It seems like we’ve been living in the ‘œpost’ era for some time now.  Post-rock, post-sarcasm, people have even gone so far as to mention that we might be post-racism.  (Though I know a lot of us would strongly disagree.)  Anyway, tonight you’re invited to a Postpunk Anti-Prom.  Or Not

Today is a special day.  Cuatro de Mayo: the day before Cinco de Mayo.   We celebrate Cinco de Mayo because on that day in 1862 the Mexican army (against all odds) reigned victorious over French forces at the Battle of Puebla.  Bit of trivia for you:  Since that battle, no

When I was in high school, I used to write down what I wore to school on my calendar. Every outfit. Every day. This routine continued for four years, all the way up until I won the best-dressed category during the senior superlatives. Sure, my regimen was extreme (I probably

This is an excerpt from my NYC book Visiting the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. suddenly cheapened my entire childhood experience. Before that moment, I had thought that tying my blankey around my neck when I was a five year old and pretending I was Superman was cute and imaginative; now