These days, it’s easy to think Times Square is all Olive Garden and Forever 21. But if you turn east on 44th Street, you’ll stumble across a piece of New York so authentic, you might rub your eyes and wonder if you fell into a time warp.
If you’re looking for a cheap drink in Times Square, you gotta go to Jimmy’s Corner.
Jimmy’s Corner embraces every definition of “dive bar”. It’s the one place in Times Square proper that you can count on finding a cheap drink.
I mean cheap. Not just “New York cheap” but even reasonably priced by tourists from Indiana standards.
The guy in this [Replay] post actually got engaged this New Years! Super happy for him. I’ve always remembered this one date we went on fondly, I think I always will. Originally posted in 2012.
Hair pulling, teasing, pinching, name-calling, tattling, insulting, fighting.
Oh boy, did we have a history.
Last week I went on a date with a guy who I COULDN’T STAND. Back when I was 7 years old, that is. He was my elementary school nemesis. Over two decades later…
(If you want a full background, you can read it here.)
We had a lot of ground to cover, both literally and metaphorically. It was the first day of my visit to San Francisco, his last. Both of us were hungry to take in our home town, the city where we had both been born and raised. First we were just hungry. So we headed down the hill to North Beach, San Francisco’s “Little Italy”.
North Beach, San Francisco
As with any trip in a city of your past, our walk was full of reminiscences and memories.
“Hey, that’s the tree where I saw my beloved pet parakeet for the last time”, and “See? That park is where I broke my arm 3 times” (I remember he spent most of third grade with his arm in a cast. I never signed it). More fun however, were the things we remembered from our mutual past in elementary school. Read More
Take a different walk from the subway to work in New York City and you might just stumble across some street art. That’s how I stumbled across this mural that appears so timely, you’d think it was painted at the end of 2017.
The title of this art is “For Those Who Speak and Those Who Have Yet To Speak”. It was actually painted in 2012, inspired by women’s rights movements across the globe.
The #MeToo Movement has given this work a metaphorical fresh coat of paint, if you will.
It snowed non-stop in NYC yesterday, but today you might never guess it.
I am always amazed at how quickly the city clears the streets after a blizzard.
Never have I ever shoveled snow. Or dug out a car from a snow bank. These are two of the beautiful things about spending winters in this city where most people live in apartments and don’t have cars. Many of the people who do shovel snow are pros. Literally paid to clear the path as quickly as possible.
Winter is my favorite time to visit museums. In honor of this, and the fact that NYC is currently being pummeled by a blizzard so I’m not leaving my apartment, let me share a museum visit from my holiday trip. Two days before Christmas, I visited the de Young Museum in San Francisco with my favorite tour company, Museum Hack.
A little California dreamin’ on such a winter’s day… This is the green, green, not snowy, court yard of the de Young Museum.
Remember Museum Hack? The renegade museum tour company whose motto is “MUSEUMS ARE F***ING AWESOME”? I’ve been on several of their New York museum tours and loved them so much I decided I had to check them out in another city!
I hadn’t been to the de Young since I was a kid and thought museums were b-o-r-i-n-g. So I was excited to visit with Museum Hack whose entire mission is to change people’s minds of exactly that notion. Read More
The magic of the holidays has come to an end and now here we are. Cold, gray, snowy NYC winter for at least three months. ‘Tis the season where it’s tempting to camp out in your over-heated apartment and avoid all the amazing things NYC has to offer (aside from great take-out options)… So what’s a New Yorker to do? Here are some ideas:
1. Complain about the cold.
Every single conversation I’ve had since coming back from California has included how cursedly cold it is. Winter has hit NYC with brutal lows in the single digits. You know it’s cold AF in NYC when the Bryant Park fountain becomes an ice sculpture.
2. Ice skate in Bryant Park.
Bundle up like a nun (see above) and hit the ice! The rink is open until (almost) spring – March 4th!
3. Use discarded Christmas decorations to perform skateboard tricks.
Every New Year’s Eve I sleep in, say goodbye to the past year, get kinda drunk, and party well past midnight. This year was supposed to be just slightly different: I had an invite to a party in a building bordering Times Square AND I knew who I was going to kiss at midnight. What could be better than that? I planned on a New Year’s Eve I’d never forget.
December 31, 2017 is certainly a day I’ll never forget.
This New Year’s Eve I forgot all about saying goodbye to the past year. It didn’t matter. All the political shit that happened during the year, all the jobs I had that weren’t quite right, the places I visited, the blog posts I wrote, the laughs with friends, even the wonderful man I met this year and wanted to kiss at midnight…it all seemed unimportant as I sat at the bed side one of the most inspirational women I have ever known. Read More
