by Sarah Strong | Apr 13, 2019 | Art, Chefs, Culture, Dining, Featured, Lifestyle, Living
Stephanie Nass, better known as Chefanie, has found a way to combine her loves of art, cooking, and matching through her catering company and inventive products, including Chefanie Sheets that let her easily decorate cakes to match any pattern. Chefanie also runs a...
by Grace Capobianco | Apr 5, 2019 | Art, Culture, Events, Music
On April 3, Downtown Magazine attended a live art performance by Nikolai Fraiture of The Strokes, and his brother Pierre, a New York City artist. It was a captivating evening. Jimmy Webb, Dara McQuillen, and David Godlis. The cool downtown crowd included leather...
by Sarah Strong | Mar 18, 2019 | Art, Culture, Featured
Patti Grabel and I disagree on how we like our matzoh balls. I don’t know what that tells you, but it tells me almost everything I need to know about a person. Patti was happy to share the rest of her story with me over two types of her homemade challah bread pudding,...
by Sarah Strong | Feb 22, 2019 | Art, Culture, Dining, Featured, Restaurants
Yes, Lexus actually runs a restaurant…well, with some help from Union Square Hospitality Group. Intersect by Lexus is comprised of a first floor cafe, second floor fine restaurant and lounge, and third floor exhibition space. Both the chef designing the menu for...
by Downtown Magazine | Jan 15, 2019 | Art, Culture
The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery and Donghwa Cultural Foundation in NoHo, New York is now presenting the CONFLUENCE Benefit Exhibition. This junction of talent is equal rivers merging culture, memory, and tradition with art innovation converging in confluence....
by Nicole Haddad | Dec 21, 2018 | Art, Culture, Design, Featured
Tribeca is a growing mecca for the art and design-minded. Over the last year an influx of galleries and concept houses have opened, not the least of them being Twenty First Gallery. When gallery founder Renaud Vuaillat decided...