NYC Features
Don't Look Now But Fashion Week Is Back!
Bryant Park will once again be magically transformed into the "fashion capital of the world" when the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2009 collections are presented from September 5th-12th...
New York City: Like Visiting a New Friend
When I told a friend of mine that I was going to visit New York City, he poked at me a bit: “Oh, there’s nothing there but socialists and liberals.” I smiled and said, “Then it’ll be a refreshing change"...
Cocktail Confidential
Here's a list of 10 noteworthy bars, saloons, watering holes, etc. that are located in the vicinity of Times Square. Any of them is sure to satisfy the need for a stiff belt and maybe offer a little culture, history, or a glance at the ballgame...
Wi-Fi in Times Square
Times Square, with its high concentration of traffic, will have a free wireless internet connection available for the price of a brief advertisement...
Kathy Mattea Presents Her Take On Global Warming
Country singer star Kathy Mattea presented Al Gore's slideshow from "An Inconvenient Truth" with State Senator Liz Krueger and other environmental advocates discuss the issue of global warming...
A Lesser Fashion Week Concludes at Bryant Park
Decline in the majesty of the former illustrious Fashion Week. Fewer celebrities, mediocre presentations, and Peanuts characters visit Bryant Park...
The Race to Get an Interview With Nascar Legend Richard Childress
TimesSquare.com correspondent Oksana Kehoe takes a look back into the life and career of Richard Childress, a NASCAR driver/team owner, avid hunter, and budding wine entrepreneur...
Feline Fascinations
Matilda, the famous cat who has resided at The Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street for nine years, celebrated her 12th birthday recently with a fabulous cat fashion show and litter-topped birthday cake! ...
Songwriters Hall of Fame 2007
The 2007 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) Awards was a great success this year as songwriting heavyweights including Don Black, Jackson Browne, Irving Burgie, Michael Masser, Bobby Weistein and the late Teddy Randazzo was inducted into is Hall of Fame...
Furniture in the Fastlane
The 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair was held May 19-May 22 at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center--we were there to snap some photos of the exhibitions (and the exhibitors) ...
A Happy Holm: Broadway Baby Celeste Holm Celebrates her 90th Birthday
Celeste Holm, the once-and-always Ado Annie of Broadway's original "Oklahoma!" celebrated her 90th birthday in style at Tony's Di Napoli in April 2007. Among the many attendees were Mario Cuomo, Angela Landsbury, Elaine Stritch and Walter Cronkite...
Glitter and Glam: Night of 1000 Stars
The Met's Costume Institute Gala is a yearly hot ticket, allowing attendees to dress to the nines and hobnob with their favorite designers. Even if attendees didn't know quite who the subject of the adjoining exhibition "Poiret: King of Fashion" is, the Museum provided a classy crash course ...
Celebrating the History and Future of the Yellow Cab
With this month marking the 100th anniversary of the modern gasoline-powered taxi cab in New York, the future of the taxi is now. Mayor Bloomberg reinforced that sentiment by decreeing that the dates of the NY International Auto Show (April 6-15) would be Taxi Week, commemorated by an exhibit of prototype cabs and taxi-related films screening on weekends in April at the IFC Center...
NYC Condom Has You Covered
More than 20 million free condoms are now available to the public in an effort to support the fight against HIV/AIDS...
Beautiful Hearts
Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova stopped by the high-fashion jewelers Fortunoff's on Fifth Ave. this February 8 to sign posters for fans and to introduce her new jewelry line, "Petra's Infinite Heart Collection" (which is available in various prices and styles ranging from a sterling silver piece that sells for $95 to the diamond and white gold necklace above which sells for $675). Fortunoff's is donating 10 percent of the proceeds to Nemcova's Happy Hearts Fund, which "brings humanitarian relief to children who have suffered loss or hardships as...
Welcome to the City the Days After Tower Crashed
It's been several weeks since the Tower Records at Lincoln Center closed its doors for good. I guess it really hadn't fully set in until I beheld the surreal state of its empty shell, lifeless and darkened for the first time in its existence as a record store...
A Day In The Hamptons
Southampton, NY–It's not just the sprawling homes on acreage worthy of a golf course, the paddocks of shiny horses, or the $10 fudge for sale in the quaint town center that are a clue to the elite denizens of the Hamptons — especially Southampton. Attend a Hampton summer party and you really get a taste of how the other half lives...
A Quieter Fleet Week in 2006
This was New York's 19th annual tribute to the three "Sea Services," and several hundred young marines, most either veterans of the war in Iraq or headed there in the near future, joined a few thousand sailors on the streets of New York in pursuit of culture and those special joys that only the Big Apple can provide...
Is This A Dream, Or Did I Audition For "America's Got Talent?"
Julio "Cage" Martinez recounts his wild experience of dressing up like vintage Bjork, meeting the "human rug" and auditioning for Simon Cowell's newest talent competition...
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