The New York City Traveler

Fashion has never appealed to the masses more since Project Runway came to television.  New York City is a fashion mecca from its Madison Avenue boutiques to Fashion Week twice a year.  It’s only right that New York City also have a museum dedicated to fashion: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
The Museum at FIT is a tiny slice of the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York.  The museum’s mission is to “collect, conserve, document, exhibit, and interpret fashion.”  The museum’s permanent collection includes over 50,000 articles and is divided into …read more

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Don’t worry if you see mobs of crazed-looking women on the streets of Chelsea.  It’s not the latest gentrification sweeping the city, its the semi-annual Barney’s Warehouse Sale.
This is your chance to get 50-75% off all of the designer duds that you had been eyeing.  Merchandise includes designer clothing, shoes and accessories for men and women, and gifts for the home.  We’re talking Manolo’s for $70 and a Marc Jacobs dress for $75.  New this year is the addition of children’s Halloween costumes which, oddly enough, I don’t recall ever seeing at the Madison Avenue store.     
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Having been featured in Sex and the City, Saturday Night Live, and The Devil Wears Prada, Magnolia Bakery has officially achieved cult status.  On any given day you can walk down Bleecker Steet in the West Village and see a line of people on the corner of West 11th Street.  Hordes of people, mostly non-New Yorkers, patiently waiting up to an hour for their moment at the case to pick out their “limit 12″ (as per Magnolia’s policy) cupcakes.
Word on the street is that after receiving so much press, Magnolia Bakery is starting to believe its own hype.  …read more

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I just saw this come across the wires and it is just so surreal that I had to share it.  "Long Island Lolita," ex-convict Amy Fisher, will be a Guest DJ at Retox Rock Bar in New York City.  Fisher will be joined by self-proclaimed "NYC Club Guru" JE Englebert.   
Amy Fisher rose to fame in 1992 when the then sixteen-year old was convicted of shooting Mary Jo Buttafuco, the wife of her former lover, Joey Buttafuco.  Fisher served seven years in prison and was released in 1999.
But it doesn’t just stop there!  Apparently she’s been busy since …read more

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I have meditated while in sauna-hot rooms and perfected my warrior position while on palm-lined beaches in the Caribbean but never have I posed downward-dog sans clothing. That is just what Naked Yoga NYC, the much buzzed about Manhattan yoga studio, has been encouraging students to do since they opened earlier this year.
The Vinyasa Hatha-style naked yoga classes are meant to liberate you from negative belief patterns, body consciousness and, of course, clothing. According to Naked Yoga NYC, naked yoga was created with the thought that
…by removing clothing we are forced to examine our bodies and our belief …read more

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