Thanksgiving Is a Time for Booze and Gravy: Your Handy Guide to Both

Thanksgiving Is a Time for Booze and Gravy: Your Handy Guide to Both

by Tana Tymesen Friendsgiving Pajama Jam, brought to you by the proprietor of Chateau de K, John K., will take place this year in a charming, cozy pre-war apartment in Jackson Heights with in-wall bookcases and plush couches. John works in television, and his girlfriend Monique, my best friend, and the dinner’s co-host, is a candymaker. Monique and I live together a few blocks away at Penthouse at The Burrow. We nickname our domiciles. It’s festive. The party this year…

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Women’s Work: Erin Khar and Gabrielle Gewirtz

Women’s Work: Erin Khar and Gabrielle Gewirtz

What happens when two strangers in different career fields interview each other about the work they do? Let’s find out. Erin Khar is a writer and editor in New York City. Gabrielle Gewirtz is a graphic and art director in Colorado. Gabrielle Interviews Erin Gabrielle: What type of writing do you do?   Erin: I write mostly personal essays covering topics such as parenting, mental health, addiction and recovery, relationships, and pop culture. I also have a weekly advice column. G:…

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Thankful

Thankful

by Lauren Jonik “Please carry this in and give it to Nana — carefully,” my mother instructed when handing me the aluminum foil covered cherry pie she had baked. Leaves crackled beneath my feet as I walked up the stone driveway, past my grandfather’s rose bushes now dormant, to the front door of the home he built. The combined scent of turkey, pumpkin pie and coleslaw greeted me as I entered. As a child, the last Thursday in November meant…

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Women’s Work: Dorit Elena Konig and Faith P

Women’s Work: Dorit Elena Konig and Faith P

What happens when two strangers in different career fields interview each other about the work they do? Let’s find out. Dorit Elena Konig is a New York City born and raised musician and dancer. Faith P. is an artisan and animal caretaker living in Maine. Dorit Interviews Faith Dorit: Are you happy? Is this the life and work that you want? Faith: I would say I am quite happy. There’s a rather worn old motto about blooming where you’re planted and I’ve taken that to…

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Say It To A Crowd: Florence + The Machine at Barclays June 14, 2016

Say It To A Crowd: Florence + The Machine at Barclays June 14, 2016

by Andrea Crowley-Hughes Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine was dreamily enthusiastic when she explained how performing “Various Storms and Saints” live led her to regard the song in a different way. To a packed Barclays Center on June 14, Florence said she initially wanted the song cut from the album she was touring to promote, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.” “At the time when I wrote it, I was still very much in the feeling of this…

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