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Grandlife Interviews: Empellón’s Alex Stupak

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Music

12 Years Of DFA Records

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All

The Best Little Block In The World: Bank Street

Posted 4 days ago

In many ways it was a dump. The floors creaked, the house leaned, the bathrooms were pre-Pearl Harbor and the windows...
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Parties

Soho Grand Dog Park Opening

Posted 5 days ago

On Friday, May 10th, The Soho Grand unleashed something a little out of the ordinary: a Dog Park. For 16 years the...
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Dining-nightlife

NYC’s Best Dim Sum: Our Top 5 Picks

Posted 5 days ago

Last fall, Lucky Peach, the literary food glossy from David Chang and McSweeney’s, released its inaugural Chinatown...
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Fashion

The Look: Daisy Buchanan

Posted 1 week ago

I was lucky enough to attend a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby adaptation last night, after waiting...
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Arts-entertainment

A Sophomore Success Story: Frieze

Posted 1 week ago

Not too long ago the phrase “the art world” was a bit of self-glorifying nonsense, a term of sociology that tried...
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All

Introducing: The Soho Grand Dog Park

Posted 1 week ago

On Friday, May 10th, The Soho Grand is unleashing something a little out of the ordinary: a Dog Park. For 16 years the...
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Fashion

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Posted 1 week ago

She literally created you. She carried you in her womb for nine months. She was delighted with your first words, first...
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Dining-nightlife

Something Old, Something New: Lafayette

Posted 1 week ago

Andrew Carmellini’s gracious French cafe and bakery has a long history… and a future as a game-changer for...
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Arts-entertainment

Studio 54 Hits The Auction Block At Christie’s

Posted 2 weeks ago

Located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, the nightclub was founded by four equal partners, Steve Rubell, Ian...
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Music

Now Appearing: Tatiana Eva-Marie

Posted 2 weeks ago

We take a special pride in being able to showcase interesting and exciting music here at GrandLife, so it is with great...
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Dining-nightlife

Behind The Grand Bar: American Craft Whiskey

Posted 2 weeks ago

When you sit in the Grand Bar in the Soho Grand Hotel and scan the bottles of American whiskey on the soaring shelves,...
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Arts-entertainment

A Sophomore Success Story: Frieze

Posted 1 week ago

Not too long ago the phrase “the art world” was a bit of self-glorifying nonsense, a term of sociology that tried...
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Arts-entertainment

Studio 54 Hits The Auction Block At Christie’s

Posted 2 weeks ago

Located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, the nightclub was founded by four equal partners, Steve Rubell, Ian...
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Arts-entertainment

Mesmerized Monday: The Making Of A Daguerrotype

Posted 2 weeks ago

Daniel Carrillo is a Seattle-based photographer focused on antique methods such as Daguerreotypes, Wet Plate Collodion...
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Arts-entertainment

Galleray: When Art Meets Tech, Everybody Wins

Posted 3 weeks ago

The art exhibit has been slow to traverse from the traditional cobblestoned gallery to the internet era of today....
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Arts-entertainment

How Long Will The Ziegfeld Theatre Last?

Posted 3 weeks ago

The Ziegfeld Theatre has been to New York what the Chinese Theatre is to Los Angeles: the most opulent, most...
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Arts-entertainment

Behind the Scene: Caveman

Posted 3 weeks ago

Caveman navigate the sonic drama of space and time. Based in Brooklyn, the five-piece recently released their second,...
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Arts-entertainment

Classic New York: The Paris Theatre

Posted 1 month ago

The movie business begins with the Société Pathé Frères—four brothers who incorporated in Paris in 1896, and who...
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Arts-entertainment

What To See: The Short List 2013

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Tickets to the Tribeca Film Festival’s 217 films went online this morning, and will be shifting fast. Seats to many...
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Arts-entertainment

Born Again: The Judd Foundation SoHo

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This June the Donald Judd Foundation will open its doors to 101 Spring Street, the former studio and apartment of the...
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Arts-entertainment

Art & Technology: A Digital Love Affair

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It’s not easy to find a time in history when art and technology weren’t inextricably connected. The charcoal...
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Arts-entertainment

Under The Radar: Brooklyn Art Library

Posted 1 month ago

“I’m like the Santa Claus of sketchbooks,” said head librarian Chris Heuberger of the Brooklyn Art Library as he...
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Arts-entertainment

GrandLife Interviews: Artist & Naturalist Steve Quinn

Posted 1 month ago

It’s not often one spends his entire career at a single company. But then again, not everyone manages to land a dream...
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Dining-nightlife

NYC’s Best Dim Sum: Our Top 5 Picks

Posted 5 days ago

Last fall, Lucky Peach, the literary food glossy from David Chang and McSweeney’s, released its inaugural Chinatown...
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Dining-nightlife

Something Old, Something New: Lafayette

Posted 1 week ago

Andrew Carmellini’s gracious French cafe and bakery has a long history… and a future as a game-changer for...
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Dining-nightlife

Behind The Grand Bar: American Craft Whiskey

Posted 2 weeks ago

When you sit in the Grand Bar in the Soho Grand Hotel and scan the bottles of American whiskey on the soaring shelves,...
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Dining-nightlife

In Conversation: Ray Pirkle, Director Of Food & Beverage

Posted 3 weeks ago

The hotels’ new food & beverage director talks authenticity, American whisky, and the best beach party this side...
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Dining-nightlife

Speakeasies Worth Speaking About: Our Top 5 Picks

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Prohibition was repealed 80 years ago this month, and when it finally happened, it was repealed with great fanfare. In...
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Dining-nightlife

Tartare Worth Talking About: Little Prince

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Just when you thought SoHo had reached maximum capacity for cozy spots that’ll serve you Tartare de Bœf, The Little...
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Dining-nightlife

Introducing The Soho Grand Cocktail Program

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There are certain sounds that that ring with exhilaration, regardless of what language you speak or where you are in...
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Dining-nightlife

GrandLife Interviews: David Bouley

Posted 3 weeks ago

If you’ve spent any time eating in Tribeca lately then you’ve got David Bouley to thank. His Montrachet opened in...
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Dining-nightlife

The Grand Central Oyster Bar Turns 100

Posted 4 weeks ago

The trek from the office in Manhattan to the home in the suburbs has been a well-trodden path for generations. Since...
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Dining-nightlife

Checking In On Indochine

Posted 1 month ago

More tableau vivant than actual restaurant, 1980s hotspot Indochine is still open for business on Lafayette Street,...
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Dining-nightlife

NYC’s Most Legendary Bartenders: Our Top 5 Picks

Posted 1 month ago

A New York bar is a cathedral and the bartender is its priest. That was not a metaphor. The person pouring drinks...
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Dining-nightlife

Coming Home To The Odeon

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I came home to The Odeon the other day and slowly sipped a Sazerac. In 1920s Paris, “home” for Hemingway and...
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Travel

Gatsby’s Guide To The Hamptons

Posted 1 month ago

I have never felt more like Nick Carraway than the summer of 2010. I was attending a summer soiree hosted by chef Katie...
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Travel

Anna Wintour to Downton Abbey: The Country House Weekend

Posted 1 month ago

A country house. Sunny days with friends. The epitome of summer. The east end of Long Island, near unprepossessing...
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Travel

5 Luxe Luggage Brands You Need to Know

Posted 1 month ago

It’s time to upgrade to first-class—and we've got our top choices for luggage companies that pair style with...
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Travel

First Class: Grand Hotels

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Eloise may have lived in New York’s Plaza, but I lived in Vienna’s imposing Imperial. Abandoned by “mummy”,...
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Travel

First Class: The Age Of The Expense Account

Posted 2 months ago

It was the era of the bottomless expense account and Sam White was a legend in his own lunchtime. “Meet me at The...
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Travel

Classic New York: Rockefeller Center

Posted 2 months ago

Oil made America, and made it great. And such is the size and scope and variety of the Rockefeller Center, that...
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Travel

First Class: A Travel Memoir – Part Two

Posted 2 months ago

Editor’s Note: It is with great pleasure that we are able to bring the voice of Peter Foges to our pages....
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Travel

Classic New York: The Brooklyn Bridge

Posted 2 months ago

Among the many essentials for the New York City visitor—and something New Yorkers should do at least once a...
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Travel

First Class: A Travel Memoir – Part One

Posted 2 months ago

Editor’s Note: It is with great pleasure that we are able to bring the voice of Peter Foges to our pages....
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Travel

Travel Essentials: Leigh Lezark

Posted 2 months ago

Just because Leigh – the widely regarded queen of black – is now rocking a shock of blonde hair, that...
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Travel

In Search Of: The Luxury Steamer Trunk

Posted 2 months ago

By the early 19th century the advent of regular rail and steamship travel had taken much of the danger and difficulty...
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Travel

Travel Essentials: Elettra Wiedemann

Posted 3 months ago

We asked the world traveler what she considers to be her must have, whether she hops in a plane or a cab and her answer...
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Fashion

The Look: Daisy Buchanan

Posted 1 week ago

I was lucky enough to attend a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby adaptation last night, after waiting...
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Fashion

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Posted 1 week ago

She literally created you. She carried you in her womb for nine months. She was delighted with your first words, first...
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Fashion

The Look: Audrey Hepburn

Posted 1 month ago

Her beauty is legend. Her grace, inimitable. She is the most celebrated style icon of our time. British actress and...
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Fashion

The Look: Tennessee Thomas

Posted 1 month ago

It’s not just her name, an alliteration that begs to be repeated, or even her full proper name, Tennessee Jane...
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Fashion

The Look: Gloria Vanderbilt

Posted 1 month ago

Gloria Vanderbilt has lived many lives, six that we can count: Heiress – The only heir to railroad tycoon Reginald...
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Fashion

The Look: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

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Minimalism continues to reign the runways, and will do so as long as Pheobe Philo continues slinging out hit after hit...
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Fashion

Behind The Scene: Giles & Brother

Posted 1 month ago

Courtney Crangi is magnetic. It isn’t one particular trait that solidifies this magnetism, although you’d be...
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Fashion

The Look: Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Posted 2 months ago

Hot mama. Yummy mummy. Other shudder-worthy terms – you’ve heard them all before, because the media is...
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Fashion

The Look: Natalie Joos

Posted 2 months ago

My first introduction to vintage clothing was in the fourth grade when I went as a hippie for Halloween. At the time, I...
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Fashion

GrandLife Interviews: Bibhu Mohapatra

Posted 2 months ago

Bibhu Mohapatra is the rare fashion designer who came to the United States and lived elsewhere – Utah! – before...
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Fashion

The Look: Lauren Santo Domingo

Posted 2 months ago

There are certain movies I’ll always watch when I stumble across them late at night while channel surfing, no...
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Fashion

The Look: Jenna Lyons

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10 Things I Love About Jenna Lyons: She started at J. Crew fresh out of Parsons as assistant designer in menswear, and...
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Parties

Soho Grand Dog Park Opening

Posted 5 days ago

On Friday, May 10th, The Soho Grand unleashed something a little out of the ordinary: a Dog Park. For 16 years the...
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Parties

Alix Brown DJ Set

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Parties

Cinema Society & Jaeger LeCoultre Present: The Host

Posted 1 month ago

Stephanie Meyer, the mastermind behind the Twilight Saga continued on her warpath of cinema domination with a special...
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Parties

Valentino: Camouflage

Posted 3 months ago

GrandLife popped by Jeffrey the other night to support our team member Steven Rojas as he DJ’d the launch of...
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Parties

This Is New York F/W ’13

Posted 3 months ago

For nearly a decade, “This Is New York” has been our way of reminding all of our friends just how much we...
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Parties

Backstage at NYFW with Sonny Vandevelde

Posted 3 months ago

If there’s a bright light blaring over a catwalk: Sonny Vandevelde is there. If there’s bass heavy music...
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Parties

Cinema Society Presents: Side Effects

Posted 3 months ago

Last night GrandLife popped by Steve Soderbergh’s final movie premiere: Side Effects with The Cinema Society...
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Parties

The Downtown Ball Drop at Tribeca Grand

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Parties

NYE 2013 at Soho Grand Hotel

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Parties

I Art NY: Miami Art Basel

Posted 5 months ago

Last night, a star-studded crowd including Jay Z, Beyonce and Demi Moore descended on the GrandLife & Whitewall...
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Parties

GrandLife, Bow & Flaunt Present: BOWBQ

Posted 5 months ago

Taking over the Freehand in Miami, Grandlife, Bow, and Flaunt Magazine threw the perfect back yard bash, poolside...
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Parties

Cult of Individuality presents EXHIBIT: 1

Posted 5 months ago

Last evening denim brand Cult of Individuality hosted “EXHBIT: 1”- an exclusive homage to eight of the fashion...
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Music

12 Years Of DFA Records

Posted 3 days ago

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Music

Now Appearing: Tatiana Eva-Marie

Posted 2 weeks ago

We take a special pride in being able to showcase interesting and exciting music here at GrandLife, so it is with great...
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Music

Inside The Mind Of Adam Green

Posted 1 month ago

Former Moldy Peaches frontman, artist, filmmaker and multi-instrumentalist Adam Green is a modern-day troubadour. His...
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Music

20 Questions: Live Footage on Live Footage

Posted 1 month ago

Meeting at a Halloween Party in 2008, Mike Thies and Topu Lyo had little idea that they would eventually unite to...
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Music

20 Questions: Ex Cops on Ex Cops

Posted 2 months ago

Brooklyn Based Ex Cops haven’t exactly taken their time moving through the music world, which made it all the...
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Music

Now Appearing: The Matthew Avedon Trio

Posted 2 months ago

We take a special pride in being able to showcase interesting and exciting music here at GrandLife, so it is with great...
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Music

Under The Radar: Control

Posted 3 months ago

When one pictures a traditional instrument shop, images of walls filled with guitars and the blinding glow of brass...
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Music

Under The Radar: The Jazz Record Center

Posted 3 months ago

With record stores closing left and right, a music fan can be forgiven for not knowing that one of the world’s finest...
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Music

In Search Of: The Next DFA Records

Posted 3 months ago

It seems the prophecy of an electronic music future has blossomed to full fruition. While the dance music artists of...
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Music

GrandLife Interviews: Johnny Jewel

Posted 3 months ago

In the unlikely event that the names Johnny Jewel, Glass Candy, or Chromatics don’t ring a bell, there’s a...
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Music

Nouveau Wave: D E N A

Posted 4 months ago

Attention fans of Azealia, Rita Ora, and M.I.A.: there’s a new fly girl in town....
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Music

GrandLife Interviews: Starred

Posted 4 months ago

If you haven’t heard of the band STARRED, you’re not alone – it was only last summer that Pitchfork picked up on...
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