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Snow may have "paralyzed" Paris in a "catastrophe" (CNN's words, not mine) yesterday, but some lightheartedly took to the streets in the first ever snowboard ride down Montmartre!
Like a stereotypical architecture person, I visited the Rodin Museum and remembered nothing except how beautiful the building was. But for those more interested in Rodin, the gardens contain all of his most famous works: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Kiss, Monument to Victor Hugo, Balzac and The Burghers of Calais.
High above the cacophonic streets of New York, 25 lucky people get to see an intimate performance of world-class musicians while drinking bottles of Vueve Clicquot to the backdrop of Lincoln Center.
We happened to discover this storefront on 666 Bond Street recently, for the fashion label e.vil. Clever gimmick or cool enough for the East Village, its namesake? The label has been around since at least 2001, favored by Madonna, Paris Hilton and J.Lo.
Over the past six weeks, I've been teaching the Bill of Rights to 16-18 year old incarcerated juveniles in the Rikers Island Prison as part of the Rikers Island Project, an advocacy and legal workshop run by Fordham Law School. .
With more than 40,000 people expected to queue up for New Orleans' legendary sandwich, I headed to the Po-boy Preservation Festival nice and early.
At stake in the East Village are two buildings with remarkably intact Greek Revival architectural details. But perhaps even more at risk are the rich histories embedded within. .
The line at Parkway Bakery and Tavern stretched 20 people long on NFL Opening Day 2010, but it only took ten minutes to get to the front and order a sandwich. “Regular french fry po-boy with gravy.” The guy taking orders looked at me. “That’s a big sandwich. You sure?”
When Korilla BBQ comes to Columbia University, it parks on Amsterdam away from the slew of other food trucks on Amsterdam. There's a great visual menu, an assembly line of workers, a mirror above to show you what they've got and an iPad rings you up.
Political activist and lawyer Janos Marton documents his movements through his upliftingly-named website, LivingtheDream.org. As a long-standing friend of Untapped, Janos has kindly shared with us his experience inside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York's mayors.