Years ago if you were a talented, but unsigned, musician, your best bet of getting your material out there was by playing local shows and mailing out a barrage of demo tapes. These days, with the help of YouTube and Facebook, and social media in general, a voice perhaps only heard within the confines… Read more »
Hi Megan here again. Last week I introduced myself as the Ask a New Yorker bride in waiting and now here’s more backstory on my big day to be. Now that we’ve properly met (the Internet counts, right?), it’s only appropriate to share my engagement story with you! After dating for just shy of a year and half (8… Read more »
Amid mounting tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world North Korean leader Kim Un has agreed to fly to Washington to meet with President Obama. He will also do a stop over in New York to visit Macy’s. The secret meeting was brokered by former President Bill Clinton, and also made possible by a Florida… Read more »
As the war against Jay Leno plays out in Hollywood and on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. Ask a New Yorker and they will tell you they would love to see ‘The Tonight Show’ move to New York but with Jay as the host. Yes, it is strange but true that while media critics… Read more »
Two years ago, on the day after Christmas, Thomas Dziarmaga’s apartment was broken into. The thief stole many possessions but amongst the most prized was his music. The music was stored on his MacBook Pro laptops. It contained over 10 years of music Thomas had recorded and composed. To listen to Thomas who goes by the… Read more »
Want to go Ivy League for a night out then this just might be the place for you. Ivy is New York’s newest hot spot for an after work cocktail, an intimate dinner, or a late night get together with friends. Located on Eighth Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets, the newly opened Ivy Restaurant… Read more »
Any notion that talk is cheap can be dismissed every Saturday night when Laura Smith takes to the airwaves for her Saturday Night Cafe on WABC radio. Indeed, if you want to be entertained then Laura’s show is compulsory listening. Laura takes talk very seriously which is one of the reasons her audience loves to… Read more »
As many New Yorkers may be aware, a mini-festival entitled Rendezvous with French Cinema is currently being held in New York City at multiple venues. Gallic star, Audrey Tautou, has crossed the Atlantic to “present” her native cinema, as she expressed prior to a recent promotional screening of the new French film ‘Populaire’ at the… Read more »
While many people only dream of being an award winning TV Producer, Dennis O’Brien accomplished that but still wasn’t satisfied. Instead, the New York photographer picked up his still camera to embark on a new frontier. O’Brien tells us:“After working with moving images for many years in television, I wanted to slow things down to… Read more »
It’s been a busy week in New York for movie and TV shoots and I have been there with the camera ready. So many streets were closed over the weekend in anticipation of various movies. Midweek it was Blue Bloods turn to create some gridlock on the West Side. Meanwhile, Quartet star Billy Connolly was… Read more »
