Just a few miles from East Hampton, Springs is a nabe that’s become renowned for many things in the East End. For locals, it’s where the artists live. For artists, it’s the only place in the Hamptons where they can concentrate and get away from the deafening wealth and celeb-fueled buzz a scant few miles [...]
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Local Celebrity: Top Chef Master Jody Adams and her life in Brookline, MA
When Bravo’s Top Chef Master Jody Adams isn’t busy running Rialto, her four star restaurant in Cambridge, Mass, or supporting child advocacy and hunger relief organizations like Partners in Health and The Greater Boston Food Bank, she comes home to the leafy community of Brookline to relax with her family: husband Ken, children Roxanne and [...]
On the Move: Brooklyn Heights walk-up to a spanking-new Williamsburg studio
Thirty-three year old programmer Paul Dix does a little bit of everything around his mastery of Ruby on Rails: he’s a coveted speaker on the subject, a soon-to-be-published author, and he’s most-recently founded a company built on the programming language. However, his computer background alone could not help him move from his 4th-floor walk-up in [...]
Local Celebrity: “Hey Rube’s” Sexy Frontman Lets Us Peek into His Busy Williamsburg Life
Charismatic and passionate, not to mention Playgirl-certified “NYC’s Hottest Bartender,” musician Jeff Palmiotti is enjoying every minute of his bachelor life in Williamsburg. When he’s not mixing drinks at Ten Degrees on St. Marks in the East Village, he’s got his hands full launching a food company, PhysEAT: Food to Feed Your Physique, and performing [...]
Local Celebrity: East Village’s Jessica Amason
Web trend maker-and-author Jessica Amason started ThisIsWhyYourFat.com while hopping between apartments in the East Village over the past five years. The former website and now accompanying book she co-authored are a photographic testament to over-the-top junk food porn. Jessica has started a gross food movement. She describes to us how her hip neighborhood even has [...]
Local Celebrity: Upper West Side’s Daniel Jenkins
Actor, musician, and artist Daniel Jenkins, recently seen as Mr. Banks in the original Broadway cast of Mary Poppins, and as Mark Twain in the Roundabout production of Big River, moved to the Upper West Side 16 years ago, around the time his wife was pregnant with their first child. We talked to him about [...]
