Modern yet classic, artsy and urbane, the eclectic enclave Bar Pigalle feels like a gem you’d stumble upon in East Williamsburg or Dumbo. Then again, we liken to things what we experientially know. Founded by award-winning mixologist Travis Fourmont, and renowned Sommelier Joseph Allerton, its being ultimately inspired by one founder’s trip to the nightlife […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
Downward spiraling into the Covid-19 abyss, the human need for visual and figurative art magnifies. Lockdown may have stifled many artists’ desire to create, but it has intensified patrons’ hunger to appreciate and engage with the finer arts: Paintings, sculpture, photography, music, film, literature, design and cooking. Entrepreneur and curator Marina Dojchinov recognized this gap […]
