BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The walls of a new coffeehouse located on a marquee corner of Chelsea are providing patrons with a window into the world of LGBTQ+ activism, as documented by the disciplined, discerning, empathetic eye of Donna Aceto. The lead photographer for AIDS Walk New York (as well as Los Angeles and San […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | When you walk into Le Zie Trattoria, it is immediately clear why the Venetian restaurant is so popular among those in the neighborhood, and you get the feeling that you are about to settle in for a cozy and familial dining experience. Le Zie (172 7th Ave. btw. W. 20th & […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | Remember when you were younger and you agonized over the perfect poster to hang in your bedroom that would signify both how effortlessly cool and exceptionally deep you were to all who entered? There will now be a museum in New York City that is going to give you extreme poster […]
BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | “I didn’t know that make up could be a job,” said makeup artist James Vincent, at a preview of The Makeup Show. Mr. Vincent is the Director of Education and Artist Relations at The Makeup Show, an industry convention which took up four floors of the Metropolitan Pavilion, (125 W. 18th […]
Before there were the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, or Abbott and Costello, there was Weber and Fields—the largely forgotten comedy team who made all of them, and many others, possible. The famous roughhousing German dialect comedians were not only the most popular funny men in the country at the turn of […]
In an age when “Retail Space Available” signs occupy storefront windows for years—delivering food for thought about the future of mom-and-pop shops—this morning’s message was easy to digest. “We are finally open,” read the sandwich board standing sentry outside of 170 West 23rd St. (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) on Thurs., May 2, as the […]
Chelsea Guitars, after 30 years in business here at the Chelsea Hotel, received, right around the Christmas holidays last year, a notice from the new owners of the hotel that stated they needed us to vacate in six months. The Chelsea had just been passed to the new owners (the fifth set of owners in […]