Today marks a year and a day in my first big girl apartment in the city. If we’re to believe my horoscope, this week is the perfect time to take care of home, making the necessary improvements, make it feel, well, like, home. AKA spring cleaning. It...
I love this city, I hate it sometimes, too. In an effort to keep track of my feelings about the Big Apple during my time here I try my best to chronicle them in a letter to this crazy place. Welcome to Dear New York–a series posted...
“If you want to to be an artist, and you want to do and live off your art, then you have to take a stab at it, and paint in the best city in the world, which is New York as far as I’m concerned.” Graffiti...
I remember asking Bill Cunningham’s muse Tziporah Salmon about developing her eye for fashion. She paused for a minute, and then said, “you know, you’re a writer, so you read writing that inspires you. You delve into the craft as a consumer, a fan, which may...
My boyfriend talked through Selena once. If you know me, you know what a problem this is. Imagine your song comes on and someone insists on talking through your favorite part. That's how I felt. The whole movie. Don't worry, he won't know that I'm telling you this. He sensed...
I’m a marketer’s dream. I completely buy into stories. I’m looking for the perfect new scent. I’ve been looking for just the one that’s going to capture what I have to say. I know, I know. Scents don’t speak. But I want mine to. I’d love to be able to...
‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” So I’m...
It seems almost silly to post these photos considering the weather is actually nice today. New York is having some winter. Let me tell you. When I first moved here, a winter storm followed shortly after and everyone said this was the worst winter the New York’s experienced...
Here on The City, we are all about cultivating personal style, luckily, we can look to some of our favorite celebrities for a few style lessons. Eva Chen is one of those women I look at and wonder how does she do it? She is the editor-in-chief of...
Experts say it takes 21 days to form a habit. I want to test this theory, giving myself 28 days to form 28 news habits. Now that I'm newly 28 and all. My mother would call me hard-headed, but I think I just like to see things for...