Last night I went to hear Julie Powell read from her new memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, at one of my favorite indie bookstores, McNally Jackson. Julie Powell was shockingly down-to-earth for someone who wrote a bestselling memoir, Julie and Julia, and then had Amy Adams play her in the movie [...]

Dear Blue Note Jazz Club, When patrons have purchased tickets for a specific performer in advance, it is customary to alert said patrons if your line-up changes. This is especially true when you have sufficient notice of the act change to print out new programs for the month that include the new line-up. When said [...]

A friend of mine recently told me about a lap dancing class she took at S Factor. We discussed it for awhile and she asked if I wanted to join her at the Introduction to Pole Dancing at the same spot. I figured I should live a little, so off we went yesterday to the [...]

Yesterday I attended the New York Philharmonic‘s Open Rehearsal at the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. I am not a big fan of classical music. I want to preface this post with the fact that I know next to nothing about composers and classical music history. That being said, listening to classical music can [...]

On the last day of the year my husband and I decided to use our MoMA memberships one last time and go see the Tim Burton exhibit. We were so glad we had the membership. For a yearly fee of $120, two people get a “dual membership.” You get admission to the Museum of Modern [...]

We watch 200 Cigarettes almost every year around New Year’s. It is a great, little-known, independent movie that takes place in New York City in the early 1980s. The entire movie is set on New Year’s Eve in the city. The movie has some great shots of the City and it is fun to picture [...]