by Dan Metz | Oct 10, 2021 | Art, Culture, Entertainment, Featured, NYC, Theater
`What would you do if you finally got your chance to shine? Maybe it’s your first chance. Maybe it’s your last. In A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, two writers and a diva get that chance when the diva, Regina Comet, hires two jingle writers to create a song for...
by Dan Metz | Aug 18, 2021 | Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Movies
Communication between teens and parents is notoriously tough. It has been fodder for hundreds of coming-of-age stories. CODA (2021), whose title is an acronym for “Child of Deaf Adult,” tells the story of a teenager whose parents and older brother are all deaf and her...
by Dan Metz | Jul 26, 2021 | Culture, Featured, Hotels, News, NYC, Travel
Not everything shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. While other businesses went into hibernation, Westgate began a metamorphosis. Over the course of the next year, they renovated almost all of their locations, set on a new and improved experience for the eventual...
by Dan Metz | Nov 4, 2020 | Featured, Living, NYC, Pets
SINCE MARCH, it has been raining cats and dogs at NYC’s Animal Haven Shelter. The tidal wave of COVID-19 cases that hit New York also flooded their system with abandoned or orphaned pets. To right their ship, Animal Haven launched its “Emergency Action Fund,” a...
by Dan Metz | Sep 3, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Health, Living
They take the kid out of the city, but Camping to Connect isn’t trying to take the city out of the kid. Instead, co-founders and facilitators Andy Isaacson and Manny Almonte are bringing the city kid into the wilderness, an experience they hope their charges can...