Can’t Afford Hamilton in NYC? Head For Its Evil Twin: Spamilton!
If you can’t afford to watch Hamilton in NYC, check out Spamilton–its uproariously funny parody on Forbidden Broadway that even Lin-Manuel Miranda laughed at.
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The Arbutus Corridor: Vancouver BC’s Chance at NYC’s High Line
Mayor Gregor Robertson calls the Arbutus Corridor “Vancouver’s chance to have a New York-style High Line,” the successful park on Manhattan’s West Side.
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10 Fun Things about Austin, TX, Now America’s Most Livable City
Austin does seem to have it all—good schools, great jobs, a diverse economy including booming tech, and fabulous outdoor living. Here are 10 fun things to see.
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Where to Celebrate Bloomsday 2016 for James Joyce in NYC and Dublin
Bloomsday, the world-wide event has been celebrated since the 1920s, commemorating the life of James Joyce as well as his first date in 1904 with Nora Barnacle
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In Dublin, Where to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary the Easter Rising of 1916
With the fastest-growing economy in Europe, and a young, educated population, the Irish are observing the 100th centenary year of Dublin’s Easter Rising of 1916
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NYC’s Fabulous Food Festival: What to See at 2016 New Taste of the UWS
Every spring the Columbus Avenue BID hosts a food festival celebrating the Upper West Side’s best. What to check out at 2016 New Taste of the Upper West.
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The Once and Future Seattle
Seattle is its own unique city, cultivating its cultural image at its own beat, but along the way has created buildings that are both loved and hated.
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Snubbed and Ignored for Decades, Black Artist Archibald Motley Gets Major Show at Whitney
The retrospective at the Whitney Museum, “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” covers the full gamut of social and class issues and throws in city planning too
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Building Art: The NYC Trials and Triumphs of Architect Frank Gehry
The tallest residential building in the Western hemisphere, New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street is a 76-story tower with a red-brick school below.
For decades Frank Gehry had been America’s most famous architect with no prominent presence in New York. “Ever since the painful moment early in his career when his designs for Christophe …
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The Top 10 Secrets of the New York Botanical Garden
If the New York Botanical Garden is the city’s greatest cultural institution you’ve never visited, you’ll want to rectify that immediately. Here are 10 secrets.
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The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Redesigned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The redesign of Lincoln Center for the Performing arts is captured in new book, from which we’ve pulled 10 secrets of the NYC cultural venue.
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10 Things NYC Can Learn from Seoul From An Urbanism and Architecture Perspective
Silicon Valley isn’t the only place in the United States that could learn from Seoul (as trumpeted by the New York Times Magazine in early June). So could New York City. Seoul, South Korea, is older by centuries than New York, but it is also younger. Devastated by the Korean War in which whole neighborhoods were demolished, Seoul …
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