Tag: art

Jamie Beck, whose sumptuous romantic photography is featured on her site From Me To You, earned a special honor this year at New York Fashion Week. Jamie was one of five fashion bloggers chosen to ride in the Mercedes Benz Fashion Ranger, which is traversing the city to find great ...

The Groggers, a pop-punk band from Queens, just came out with a new album, and on it is one of the catchiest, funniest songs about the Upper West Side I've heard. The song, Upper West Side Story, is basically about being an Orthodox Jewish player on the Upper West Side: ...

With record rain having already fallen on New York City over the weekend, and more to come, it's time to take off our pants and hang them up to dry -- and then pause and reflect in our underwear. That feels better, doesn't it? Above, check out a picture that ...

Lincoln Center finished up its 23rd Midsummer Night Swing season last night, and posted a bunch of pictures of the action. We put a few of our favorites below, along with some flickr shots, and you can check out the whole gallery here. The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival ...

By Harriet Flehinger On Wednesdays this summer, sling a folding chair over your shoulder and head out of the house. Come to Richard Tucker Park (66th St and Broadway, across from Lincoln Center) for live world music from noon until 2 p.m. Performers range from the Metro Brass Quintet to ...

Project Nim, a documentary that won raves at Sundance and is coming out in New York theaters this Friday, tells the story of Columbia University graduate student Stephanie Lafarge, who tried to raise a chimpanzee as a child in her Upper West Side apartment as part of a professor's experiment. ...

July 22, 2011 Weather: Thunderstorms, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: The photo above was sent to us by Upper West Sider Paul Katcher of a woman playing piano on a pier off of Riverside Park as part of yesterday's Make Music NY Festival. News: An Upper West Side physics professor ...