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Downtown Q&A: Celine Kaplan and Amy Focazio
Meet the fierce duo taking the NYC public relations world by storm. Celine Kaplan is a PR pioneer and founder of her own luxury boutique agency, CKPR. By her side is her managing partner, Amy Focazio; a maven in her own right. Focazio has over 20 years of public...
Fashion is Back: Try These Summer Pieces
It has been a tumultuous year and a half for many. (By many I mean everyone). It seemed as though the world was devoid of color. Now that life is accelerating toward normalcy, the celebration of fashion is at an all-time high. This summer, fashion is back and better...
The Bay is Framed by this Modern A-frame
IN A TOP-TO-BOTTOM RENOVATION of a bay-side A-frame home on Fire Island, Bromley Caldari turned a seasoned beach rental into a sleek, modern hide-out. Rethinking the iconic 1960s A-frame form, architects R. Scott Bromley and Jerry Caldari broke through the envelope of...
How Conversation Groups Can Boost Language Skills
Say you’re learning a language on a budget. You don’t have wads of money and a world of time to throw at a school, investing in what could be years of lessons. With language-learning apps, textbooks, podcasts, and online tutorials at our disposal, we’ve never been at...
As New York Edges closer towards mobile sports betting, should Atlantic City be worried?
As part of their annual revenue bill, online sports betting has been made legal by the New York State Legislature, meaning that with certain restrictions, mobile sports betting within the New York area will now be allowed. As other states have begun to open...
How to wear men’s Chelsea boots?
Men's Chelsea boots are a type of shoes that originated in Great Britain. Although the first models appeared already in the mid-19th century, they became a real fashion success in recent years. Check out how to wear this model and in which combinations it looks best....
Learning a Language as a Piece of Theatre
As Shakespeare once put it, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” And if that’s the case, why should learning a language be any different than learning a script? One Crazy Narrative After Another Early conversation practice at ABC...
Pronounce a Language — With Or Without an Accent
All of those myths we once faced towards speaking a language with the right accent and pronunciation are just that — myths. It turns out, being able to pronounce the words of a language correctly has nothing to do with a speaker’s native accent. Rather, it is a...
How to make your own aloe gel
As we begin to enjoy summer activities, we may also get something we don’t enjoy: sunburns. If you have an aloe vera plant, an easy way to relieve your sunburn is to use aloe gel on the burn. Benefits of Aloe Gel Aloe gel not only relieves sunburns, but it is also...