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even blood-borne illnesses — not things you need to be exposed to while reading about Kim and Kanye’s new toddler inside the pedicure chair. To help you choose better, safer nail offerings, we asked for tips from Audra Senkus, co-proprietor of Haven Soho Spa in big apple, one of the city’s most luxe locations for nail and spa services. Here’s how to inform if your nail salon or spa is smooth, professional and worthy of your patronage. Your nail tech asks questions. Earlier than going to…

New York otherwise known as the “Big Apple” is home to approximately 19.7 million people. In a closer lense, New York City is home to 8.4 million people. Everytime I go to New York I always spot the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. For seven summers I went to Camp Matoaka in Maine, each year I would return to the same smiling faces. These familiar faces were always close to my heart, however they were not always in reach. My friends lived in places such as: Paris, New York City,…

We experience feeling every minute of our lives. Feelings are part of a person and they are one of the most important components a person has. Arts have taken advantage of feeling and interpreted them into their art work to catch the viewers attention. Arts have made art pieces that create sadness, happiness, excitement, tension and many more. Cory Arcangel, a thirty-seven-year-old that brought nerd’s love of gaming into galleries. He is overthrowing traditional art work with pop-futuristic…

setting in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it doesn’t feel like that place is rushed or put there for come convenience. The reader is introduced to places such as Hyde’s house at Soho and Jekyll’s compound which, in the end, reflected the character of the owners. Stephenson wrote of Hyde’s house at Soho, “In the whole extent of the house, which but for the old woman remained otherwise empty, Mr. Hyde had only used a couple of rooms; but these were furnished with…

Jerry and Jerry, the Duality of Jerry Cruncher Light and dark. Inside and outside. Good and bad. These are just a few atoms in a world of contrasts. As one of the most prominent writers in history, Charles Dickens uses a plethora of simple but effective contrasts throughout his writing, particularly in his unique characters, one being Jerry Cruncher. Although a seemingly unimportant character in A Tale of Two Cities, Jerry Cruncher is an all-encompassing figure of duality; he displays…

He reportedly saw a large, odd shaped space craft hovering just above the spitting fire of the sun. The alleged mothership looked like it was sucking out the star's lifeblood through some sort of cosmic straw. The blurry images were taken by NASA's SOHO satellite earlier this week. Of course, the poor image quality doesn't allow one to get a good look at this object, making it a perfect candidate for mindless conspiracy.…

We went for a dive and found 5 barflies for your next masterpiece. I've never been one for chic cocktail bars in SoHo or Laurel Canyon. The aesthetic is too ritzy, and the drinks, too complex. The people may as well be my co-workers. I prefer to be on an ol' barstool, listening to hair metal beside some 60-year-old divorcé. He's doesn't push a revamped LinkedIn profile or a lifestyle brand. He's authentic, and he abounds in dive bars, the perfect place for a young artist looking for a story to…

assisting the criminal justice system in securing a verdict against Darryl Littlejohn. Imette St. Guillen was a 24 year old graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. On February 25, 2006, she was out drinking with her friend at a SOHO nightclub called The Pioneer. Imette St. Guillen refused to leave with her friend that evening and instead went to another nearby bar called The Falls. She was last seen alive, leaving The Falls bar at 4:00 am. The bar’s bouncer, Darryl…

As New Yorkers, we embody the American principle of diversity-- we have a little bit of everything from around the world. In my neighborhood alone, there are three different mosques and then a church. There are three South Asian restaurants around the block, a Mexican restaurant just across the street, and a Chinese restaurant two buildings down from there. In a two mile radius from my house there are three different types of doctors—my pediatrician, my mother’s PCP and my grandmother’s kidney…

Walking through the metropolitan I take in all at once the sounds of the city flowing through me. The borough seems to move effortlessly, I stop and observe the possibilities of the future. Making my through 5th Avenue, I glimpse the billboards tower above, showcasing the latest trends and styles as it comes to life on the street. Tall, beautiful, enchanting people walk the streets gracefully. CEO's talk deafeningly and the sound of women's heels cocoons me as I take in the full experience. In…