HANYC Foundation Hosts Red Carpet Hospitality Gala

The other evening I covered The Red Carpet Hospitality Gala which took place at The InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel which is located at 111 East 48th Street. The event had many luminaires and executives from the hotel and tourism industry. In addition, there were guests from Broadway and non-profit industries as well. This annual…

Fifth Avenue’s Easter Parade

On Sunday, March 31st, I decided to spend part of my day going to the Easter Parade. I’m someone who also loves watching RuPaul’s Drag Race so how could I resist seeing all this Easter creativity “in” real time. The parade which is officially called The Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival took place along…

Smashworks Social

The other evening I attended a fundraiser for Smashworks Dance. Smashworks Dance is a New York based dance company founded and directed by choreographer Ashley McQueen. The company dances to advocate for women’s empowerment through the performing arts, educational programming, and community outreach. They make dance accessible and inspire audiences to take action through their…

Amman Jordan

I arrived in Amman, Jordan on a tour, 2 days before the war between Israel and Gaza broke out. You can imagine the shock that I was in when I got news of it. But, I decided to continue on the tour and I was not about to turn around and go back to the…

Hudson Yard’s Electric Lemon

I met a group of friends this past weekend to have brunch and then visit The Amory Art Show at Jacob Javits Convention Center. Our first stop was brunch and it was out Electric Lemon which is located at on the top of the five star Equinox Hotel in Hudson Yards. The rooftop bar has…

The Mermaid Parade

Last Sunday, I took the N Train to the last stop, Stillwell Avenue and met some friends to witness The Mermaid Parade. I’ve been wanting to do this what seems like forever but somehow I just never got there. I was determined to get there this year and I did. The Mermaid Parade is the…

The Leopard at Des Artistes

The other evening my girlfriend and I decided to celebrate just for the sake of celebrating and went to The Leopard at Des Artistes which is located at 1 West 67th Street which is right off Central Park West. It’s a really classy restaurant, yes pricey but truthfully I really enjoyed the low key, old…

Miami’s Petralunga Experience

It was my last night in Miami and I wanted to take my sister-in-law to a very special restaurant for being such a great hostess. So she suggested Petralunga which is located at 7601 E. Treasure Drive, Unit Cu-21 in North Bay Village and off we went. Petralunga is an Italian brand that specializes in…

Sip & Savor Spain’s Great Match

I found this interesting event online. Not only can you learn more about Spain now that traveling is getting easier but you can also prepare yourself for a trip to Spain by tasting their food and their wines. You can watch their live cooking demos and there will even be a live art installation. So…

Williamsport and Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon

It was time to head out of Dodge this past weekend and so I took an adventure to Williamsport, Pennsylvania and then headed to Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon. On the first day of this overnight adventure we went to Williamsport. Williamsport is a very quiet, almost eerie type of town where there wasn’t a soul on…