by Hannah Kane | Dec 5, 2013 | Lifestyle
How do you wear yours? Illustration by Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten, http://www.thegryllus.com Recently, I read something called ‘Hair Part Theory’. It was postulated in the late 1990s by John Walter and Catherine Walter, a brother-sister team of Manhattan...
by Hannah Kane | Nov 28, 2013 | Lifestyle
It takes true grit, says Matthew Bryan Beck, to stick with a city like this Image: Michele Piacquadio via Depositphotos In Joan Didion’s brilliant and seminal 1967 essay ‘Goodbye to All That’, the then-Vogue junior staffer bade a forlorn adieu to New York City and...
by Hannah Kane | Nov 14, 2013 | Lifestyle
In the urban jungle, only the fiercest survive © Annalisa In a 1924 New Yorker essay entitled ‘The Confusion of Our Sidewalkers: And the Traffic Problem of the Future in the Erratic Pedestrian’, columnist M. B. Levick humorously and insightfully described...
by Hannah Kane | Nov 7, 2013 | Lifestyle
Would you like a shot of existentialism with that? Illustration by Viktorija Semjanova Buying a cup of coffee should be an average and boring transaction. But New Yorkers are neither average nor boring. Ordering an espresso at one of our coffeehouses requires...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 24, 2013 | Lifestyle
Matthew Bryan Beck pays tribute to the quintessential Brooklyn deli Nestled nondescriptly on Avenue S and E. 35th Street in the southeast Brooklyn neighborhood of Marine Park is Jackie’s Delicatessen. Down the street is Marine Park itself, a 798-acre public park...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 14, 2013 | Lifestyle
Welcome to the first instalment of weekly musings on NYC culture, fashion and lifestyle from PHOENIX’s man on the Big Apple street, Matthew Bryan Beck Every day of my morning commute, I see the same guy on the uptown R Train because we invariably get in the same...
