No, poetry is not just for the hoity toity snobs of the world. If you subscribe to that way of thinking, I advise you to stop reading, for the personalities and art offered at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe not only represents the brave people bold enough to share their souls on the stage but also […]
Any New Yorker should know by now nothing screams “The Big Apple” like a posed photograph with a cartoon character costume in Times Square. Adam Girard, a Canadian immigrant, wasn’t so swift in his decision to become a cartoon character in Times Square. Before stepping into the Times Square commotion of Elmos, superheroes, and ‘naked’ cowboys, Mr. Girard was […]
As the popularity of personality performers has increased, so follows the amount of people taking up the profession. Furthermore, the variation in the costumes themselves has increased as well. The Times Square scene has become far more diverse in terms of its costumed characters, exhibiting not just Disney characters or Marvel superheroes, but topless women […]
Say someone was to provide you with a brief history of New York City. At the very least, there would be some mention of a kind of change: changes in architecture, in transportation, or most importantly, in people. What was once merely an open space surrounded by small apartments, for instance, now serves as one […]
