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Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Sip, Savor, Repeat: The Perks of a Wine by-the-Glass Program

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red wine marquee signage on table
Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com

Hey there, wine enthusiasts! If you’re a regular at your local watering hole, you’ve probably noticed that an increasing number of bars are jumping on the wine by-the-glass bandwagon. But what’s the big deal? Why should you care if your favorite spot introduces a wine by the glass program? Well, my friend, we’re about to uncork the benefits and pour out the details on why this trend is a game-changer for both wine lovers and casual drinkers alike.
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Arts and Culture

Jean Shin’s Floating Maize at Brookfield Place

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jean shin installation photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

Fans of this blog will know that I am way into repurposing and recycling items that would otherwise end up in a landfill into both functional items and aesthetically pleasing works of art, so when I read about Floating Maize, artist Jean Shin’s new public art installation at the Brookfield Place mall, I braved the subway to get down there to check it out.
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Design and Innovation

String Lights Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles!

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Recycled Bottle Lights
All Photos By Gail

In the first week of December, I was invited to a fantastically fun Tree Trimming Party at The Norwood House, a private Arts and Culture club located in a multi-story townhouse on West 14th Street in Manhattan. The club is filled with beautiful contemporary artworks, rare collectibles and antiques, and eye-catching oddities throughout its many rooms. While I was exploring, I spotted this string of large, irregularly-shaped colored lights, which were  draped around a bust nestled on a stairway landing, and they grabbed my attention right away. Because, colored lights.
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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Untitled (Night Train) By David Hammons

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Night Train
Photos By Gail

This Sculpture / Installation, Untitled (Night Train) (1989) by African-American artist David Hammons had just been re-rotated into display from the permanent collection at MOMA when I visited earlier this month, and I think it’s really terrific.

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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Elad Lassry Nailpolish

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Elad Lassry Nailpolish
Photo by Gail

Elad Lassry (born 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. His chromogenic color prints — still life compositions, stock images, photocollages and studio portraits of friends and celebrities — never exceed the dimensions of a magazine page or spread and are displayed in frames that derive their colors from the dominant hues in the photographs. I love how this photo looks so much like an ad, and thus succeeds on the same level as the work of Andy Warhol to elevate commercial images to the realm of fine artwork.

Nailpolish (2009) is a new acquisition to the photography collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.