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Citi Field’s parking lot was recently transformed into a dream landscape for the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival. The two-day event brought together “kindred spirits” who share a passion for music and...
I thought I had lost my passion for illustration. Although I majored in fine art in high school, I completely stopped drawing in college. At the time, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. During my...
The New York City sewer system is home to a variety of critters, including rats, cockroaches and, according to one urban legend, alligators. In fact, the “sewergator” story has been around for dec...
FIGMENT came from modest beginnings. What originally began as a free one-day art event eventually transformed into a “forum for creation.” Since its launch in July 2007, FIGMENT has quickly grown i...
I don’t normally take advice from a bathroom stall, but the Irrelationship Group strategically stuck its sticker in my field of view.
Colin Ryan may be the most well known man in Greenwich Village. “I wouldn’t trade my age or life for anything in the world,” he tells me as he sits on a stoop with his toolbox.
I had unknowingly primed myself for the 8 o’clock show at the Comedy Cellar just a few minutes prior to the start of the event. Around 7:55 p.m., I coincidentally came across a sticker stuck onto t...
Here’s the machine used to detect gas recently released into the New York City subway system:
It’s only a two-hour ride from New York City to Philadelphia, but my sister slept through the majority of it. She woke up in a daze after the bus pulled into the station at noon. “You know…it’s r...
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