Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s some more “Fashion’s Night Out” news. I just realized the FNO website (seems to be loading very slowly at the moment) listed Columbus Circle as a separate entity from the Upper West Side, so the previous post omitted all the participating stores in the Time Warner Center. If you’re [...]

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011… Adult Yoga @ Bloomingdale Library New York Public Library, Bloomingdale Branch (150 W. 100th, btw. Amsterdam & Columbus) 6:00 pm FREE Click here for more information Food Class: More Great Greens Whole Foods (Columbus Circle) 6:00 – 7:30 pm FREE (limited space – [...]

Come to the Columbus Square Whole Foods Market (Columbus near 97th) tonight or upcoming Fridays through April 8th to enjoy some jazz while you pick up your groceries.  The Jazz Legend Spring Series, a weekly series of performances honoring the great musicians that played at Mikell’s Jazz Club, the former resident of 97th and Columbus, [...]

One of our fave Upper West Siders was spotted in the neighborhood recently… My Upper West tipster Susannah spotted Tina Fey with her husband and daughter crossing Broadway at 73rd on Sunday afternoon.  Fey and her family moved into an apartment on West End Avenue in 2009, so our guess is that they were heading [...]

Above left, The New York Post catches Piers Morgan, best known in the US for America’s Got Talent and his new stint taking over for Larry King on CNN with the show Piers Morgan Tonight (first airing on January 17th from CNN’s NYC studios), taking a winter stroll in Central Park.  The British journalist and [...]

Now that a slew of big-name chains have settled into Columbus Square, the large development surrounding Columbus between 97th and 100th, the realty group who is filling retail space is looking to community businesses.  Winick Realty Group sent out a press release this week announcing their search for smaller retailers to fill the remaining spaces, [...]

The Columbus Square Whole Foods Market (Columbus and 97th) is holding a weekly series starting in January to help you put those healthy living resolutions in action.  Step out of your comfort zone and meet other like-minded shoppers while joining Beverly, the store’s innovative healthy eating educator, to learn how to make healthier food choices, [...]

At right, Michael Douglas takes a cold-weather stroll in Central Park with the family dog late last week, only a few days after wife Catherine Zeta-Jones was caught by photogs taking the pooch out to the park. Photo courtesy of The New York Post. Also spotted recently was Dustin Hoffman.  An Upper West Side tipster [...]

Come to the Columbus Square Whole Foods Market (Columbus at 97th) today for the “Christmas Shrimptacular.”  Join Chef Juan Pablo from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm where shrimp will take center stage.  Taste some Shrimp Pancakes with Satsuma Relish while you strut down the red carpet, join a flash mob, and upload event photos at [...]

Come to the Columbus Square Whole Foods Market (Columbus and 97th) for a great holiday event.  “Holidays with the Franks” is a beer, wine, and food tour hosted by Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo, authors of The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual.  The holiday event includes three tastings of some favorites from the [...]

Today is Turkey Day… you know what that means, right?  Tomorrow is a shopper’s paradise, Black Friday.  Stores around the country are opening at ungodly hours in the morning (some even start tonight) to offer massive discounts and specials.  Although we New York City folk don’t really have a Walmart parking lot in which to [...]

The Shops at Columbus Circle (in the Time Warner Center) are kicking off their 5th annual Holiday Under The Stars show tonight, where twelve 14-foot stars hang majestically above the 150 foot tall Great Room, one of the largest specialty-crafted display of illuminated color mixing in the world.  The show, which takes place daily from [...]