With high-tourist season about to begin, a New Yorker tells visitors how to navigate New York like a native. Or close enough. NYC has a love/hate thing with tourists. We need you. You stay in our hotels, you buy stuff, you fill the seats at Broadway Shows starring b-list celebrities. You go to Continue Reading
Here are some depressing facts: 25% of women will suffer physical abuse during their lifetime For Every Dollar a Man earns, a woman earns only 77 cents. While 7 in 10 Americans are pro-choice, only: 4 in 10 members of the U.S. Congress are pro-choice 3 in 10 governors are Continue Reading
Hello, my name is Ashley, and I'll be your server this evening. This summer, our chef has a season long special: WeinerSpitzle. WeinerSpitzle is an only in NY combination of hubris, stupidity, perversion, and blatant disregard for the law. We take a little bit of working class Continue Reading
Saw this at Toy Fair this week. Could it be more perfect for your tweeps? From Jay@Play Toys! Continue Reading
Costa Rica. The Canadian Rockies. South Africa. These are all places I’ve taken my kids. I have nothing against Disney World. I’ve taken them there, too. (Once.) But Disney offers a perfectly fabricated adventure – and they do it better than anyone – and I want my kids to know all about the Continue Reading
Recently, I went shopping at Duane Reade, the New York convenience store, and it made me think of Times Square. If you grew up in New York, or if you've been here more than 20 years, or if you've seen any Scorcese movie made in the 1970's, then you remember when Times Square was seedy. You Continue Reading
On average, I'd say my husband and I go to the theatre about 15 times a year -- maybe even a bit more. Our kids? Not so much. A lot of the time, New York productions skew either too old (inappropriate) or too young (can you help the Princess find her way home? Clap three times everyone!). We do Continue Reading
Techlicious, I think I love you. At the big CES show last year (thank you, Microsoft Windows Live) I felt that women were distinctly marginalized. I mean, booth babes? Seriously? But last week in NY it was Consumer Electronics Week here in NY, (CE Week) and Suzanne Kantra from Techlicious Continue Reading
So it's day four in Paris, and the kids have finally, thoroughly, shocked me: their favorite thing so far was not the Eiffel Tower, not the hot chocolate at Angelina's, not the patisseries or the bookinistes along the Seine. Nope. They're favorite thing was visiting The Louvre. Really? Not that Continue Reading
The other day, I had one of those “it could only happen here” kind of days. It covered all ends of the NY spectrum: complicated, surprising, diverse, friendly, and scary...all at the same time. Kind of like New York itself. I mean, this isn’t a city for the faint of heart. You have to be Continue Reading