CitizenM Times Square Hotel: The brand’s first American outpost for the mobile citizen continues to shake up the outdated hotel industry

CitizenM Times Square Hotel


When citizenM announced they were opening their first American outpost in Times Square, we were a bit skeptical. After a stay, however, we were happily proven wrong—they’ve created an oasis in the middle of one of…

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DJ Spooky: Seoul Counterpoint: The musician spins a live Internet tale of two cities at NYC’s La MaMa this weekend

DJ Spooky: Seoul Counterpoint


When we last checked in with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, he was finishing up his year-long residency at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Seems like he hasn’t taken a break since: Miller was…

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Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?: Words and art combine to make up this bold, surf-centric exhibition

Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?


by Charlotte Anderson With characters and landscapes composed in stark ink, self-trained artist Raymond Pettibon’s style is a melding of images and text––reminiscent of William Blake’s illustrated poems––wryly focusing in on motifs of American life, literature, comics,…

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BHDM Design: The design duo create spaces that tell stories and their latest project—a craft beer bar called Hog’s Head—will open in May

BHDM Design


Since joining forces in 2008, Dan Mazzarini and Brian Humphrey have been conceiving and crafting eclectic hospitality, retail and residential spaces through their company, BHDM. Mazzarini (previously designing stores for…

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SOLS: Using 3D-printing technology to make the much-avoided subject of orthotics relevant and attractive

SOLS


In an age of technology during which eye vision can be corrected in 10 minutes, prosthetic limbs are breaking ground in sensory feedback and computers can be controlled by brains, we’re surprisingly lacking in the orthotics department—an area that’s in high demand but…

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Seasonal Cocktails at Henry, A Liquor Bar: Famed UK bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana delivers experimental drinks to NYC

Seasonal Cocktails at Henry, A Liquor Bar


In June 2013, world-renowned bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana (twice named “UK Bartender of the Year”) was brought in as the Creative Director for NYC’s Henry, A Liquor Bar, which is just above the escalators at the Hudson…

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Cool Hunting Video: Fire Island Opera: Reviving the classic artform in a provocative and accessible manner with open air contemporary peformance

Cool Hunting Video: Fire Island Opera


After ferrying over to the beach community of Fire Island last summer, we attended the inaugural Fire Island Opera Festival. With the image of the grandeur of traditional opera burned into our minds, we were…

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Cool Hunting Video: Juice Press: Behind the scenes with New York City’s juicing giant, brazenly bringing healthy drinks to the masses

Cool Hunting Video: Juice Press


In Manhattan’s West Village, Juice Press founder and CEO Marcus Antebi gave us an exclusive tour of the company’s juicing headquarters. Starting out as a small, neighborhood business in the East Village, Juice Press has…

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Bell Bullitt Motorcycle Helmet: Blending the old and the new seamlessly, a new powersports icon is born

Bell Bullitt Motorcycle Helmet


It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 60 years since the first polystyrene helmet was made by Bell Auto Parts owner Roy Richter—a man who had seen too many friends lost to auto racing, and decided to do something about it. And while…

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Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune: The filmmaker on his breakout documentary, about one of the greatest movies never made

Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune


by Charlotte Anderson Some 10 years before David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of the popular science fiction novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, Chilean-French filmmaker (and icon) Alejandro Jodorowsky was already penning his own screenplay. His goal was ambitious: to create a philosophically minded, aesthetically…

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