New show in NYC will celebrate the effect of Dungeons & Dragons on art and culture.

A few years ago, I was enjoying a casual afternoon browsing the shelves of my local bookstore. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, which is how I have found some find my favorite books, and that’s how I came across Kate Ascher’s The Works: Anatomy of a City. The book ...

Congratulations, you’re in the Big Apple! Now it’s time to get your geek on. With as much as New York City has to offer though, taking things slow will pay off. Therefore, I must lead off with a confession: this post covers just a small slice of the island Manhattan, ...

In November 2000, I hopped on a bus with fifteen other exchange students and went down to New York City. It was my first trip there and to say I was excited was an understatement. I was determined to take full advantage of my semester in the US, and so ...

I was asked to put together a team of bloggers to take on another few groups of bloggers in a heated trivia contest… of course my team of Jill of Glamamom and Lauren of A Mommy in the City kicked some bootay… we got 5 of 6 correct – a ...

Long before Wicked was on broadway there was Godspell by Stephen Schwartz.  Its a very interesting take on a what I would have imagined being a very slow and drama filled play… it was rather up beat and popcorn-y.  I will say being not so religious myself this was a ...

This past weekend I made it to my first major comic book convention, New York Comic Con (NYCC), and it was awesome! Squeezing in two panels made me a bit nostalgic for the smaller conventions I used to go to when I was younger. The other panel was fun, but ...

PDN PhotoPlus Expo [Link], the nation’s largest conference and tradeshow for photographers and image-makers, is only weeks away. Now, WPPI, the leader in wedding and portrait photography and education, joins PhotoPlus Expo in New York City to form WPPI NYC, an entire conference and tradeshow especially for wedding and portrait ...

The city was completely closed off from 14th street and below. If your license didn’t have an address that placed you below 14th Street, you were not passing the armed guards. To this day, I make sure my address on my drivers license is always up to date. There were ...

On the morning of 9/11, I arrived at my fitness center to work out, my toddler twins in tow. As I walked in the door, peopled were gathered around the televisions. The first tower had already been struck. My first thought is that a small plane must have gotten lost because ...