195 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009 Boris and Horton has stolen my heart. As someone constantly on the hunt for the best espresso and/or cold brew in the city, I tend to bounce around to different coffee shops without returning to many. But Boris and Horton has something special that will keep me coming…
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Helene Wecker Goodreads Synopsis In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on…
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558 Driggs Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211 “Wait, but what about pizza?!” Since moving to New York City as a vegan, this question has become my constant companion. Without fail, people ask me about it every time my lifestyle comes up, which is understandable, since pizza is also a lifestyle around here. But those lifestyles aren’t…
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by Christina Henry Goodreads Synopsis There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to…
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As someone who has been through a veritable rollercoaster of health and fitness in the past few years, I’ve come to believe in one rule above all others: listen to your body. Through every manner of diet imaginable, from 60 lbs heavier than I am to 15 lbs lighter, from running sprints to lifting…
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I’m here to talk about some things that I love, like books, movies, makeup, and eating hummus. I spend a crazy amount of time ranting about what I’m currently reading and raving about the new coffee shop I just found in Brooklyn, so here’s my little corner of the internet where I can do just…
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