Tabare Restaurant

The exotic sounding Tabare is a Uruguayan restaurant in the Williamsburgh neighborhood of Brooklyn. Run by young expatriates from Uruguay itself, the place dishes out authentic fare to guests expecting something out of the usual. In fact, the ambience and décor are the first tings that may strike a visitor as unusual in the middle [...]

Latest Fashion Documentary will Feature Rag & Bone

It seems as though R.J. Cutler has caught the fashion bug. The director of last summer’s vogue-centric fashion documentary ‘The September Issue’ has chosen a new fashion forward subject, or rather subjects: David Neville and Marcus Wainwright, the two designers of Rag & Bone. The fashion forward documentary feature the designers as they prepare for [...]

26th Anniversary of Brazilian Day in New York

several DJ’s including Ray Briones, Rodrigo Vieira, Marcos Carnaval and guests whose sound blends Brazilian traditional house music and urban electronic and other surprises such as local bands, Brazilian drums and samba dancers.

The London Hotel

The London is one of Manhattan’s most recognizable and comfortable hotels, situate right in the midst of the glamorous district. The location of this Midtown West Hotel is virtually unbeatable: Fifth Avenue, the famous shopping district, is one block away; Broadway is a mere two blocks away; and Times Square and Central Park are nearby [...]

Wife to James Whelan

The Off-Broadway Mint Theater Company is known for fishing out and staging plays that have been neglected and lost for quite some time. This reputation is the effort of artistic director Jonathan Bank, and with Wife to James Whelan he has enhanced it even further. Teresa Deevy, the writer, was a playwright who achieved popularity [...]

A tree grows at Ground Zero

To many who have stared long and hard into that empty void that is the pit at Ground Zero the sight of these trees at the former World Trade Center signifies a rebirth ,a renewal a new life .”

El Quinto Pino

The El Quinto Pino in the Chelsea district of New York offers the city’s countless tapas bar imitators a lesson in authenticity. A tiny place with a high ceiling and hardly any width at all, it has no tables, it takes no reservations, you won’t find Sangria amongst its cocktails list, and the menu doesn’t [...]

Fashion-Forward Bar Codes to Eliminate Fashion Week Wait Lines

Bar codes have never been so trendy. As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week moves to the Lincoln Center, it turns to digital tools that will assist with the registration, invitation and check-in processes. According to WSJ.COM, Vice President of Strategy at technology services firm Control Group explains, ‘these new technology systems will transform the experience of virtually [...]

The Pod Hotel: Budget Traveler’s Delight

Budget travelers would approach New York with a good deal of skepticism, since the accommodation available in big and popular destinations such as this one is usually a trade-off between price and quality; both are rarely available together. However, there is one notable exception in New York – the Pod Hotel situated in Manhattan’s Midtown [...]

Shaken not Stirred at David Barton Gym

David Barton Gym’s new revolution may seem to be somewhat contradictory, inevitable, or perhaps even mandatory when the began hosting cocktail parties at its locations in Chicago, Miami and New York .