Lifestyle

FAO Schwarz may have closed, but I’ll never say goodbye

Last time I visited FAO Schwarz, I was on a scavenger hunt. At 18 years…

Lifestyle

Why everyone’s talking about the artist Tania Bruguera

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera knows how to create a stir. As a performance and installation…

Lifestyle

A typewriter in a public park turns hundreds of people into poets

On a sun-drenched afternoon on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, friends meet to play…

Love

The question that made me totally rethink how I was dating

Recently, while in the process of evicting some undesired hairs in preparation for swimsuit and shorts…

Love

Gorgeous illustrations that show what love actually looks like

Love comes in many shapes and forms, colors and spaces, words and gestures. It’s multifaceted,…

Music

ICYMI: This couple made a dance video on a subway platform, and it’s breathtaking

Meet dancers Phillip Chbeeb and Renee Kester: We can’t stop staring at the choreographed dance…

Lifestyle

The last dance of a legendary ballerina

“When I was very young, back in Hungary in the ballet school, my teacher showed…

News

Etsy banned magic and spells, and not everyone’s happy about it

When I think of “witchcraft,” my mind automatically ventures to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, or to the Salem Witch Trials,…

Lifestyle

These ‘Lion King’ and ‘Aladdin’ stars just made being stranded at the airport actually amazing

As a child, I dreaded going to the airport. For me, it was always about…

Lifestyle

Life lessons I learned from ‘Les Misérables’

Today marks the anniversary of the 1832 June Rebellion, an unsuccessful insurrection of Parisian republicans against…

Money & Career

On turning 20, and saying goodbye to being a teenager

Last month, I was traipsing around the Upper West Side of Manhattan when an idea…

Entertainment

What ‘Center Stage’ taught me about judgement, acceptance, and overcoming fear

As Jody Sawyer swayed with panache, rotating from one pointe shoe to another like a…

Lifestyle

An open letter to grads heading to college

To the class of 2019: Two years ago, a mustard taxi pulled through iron gates…

Friends

How I became best friends with my opposite

We’re kicking off the release of our first HelloGiggles book, A Tale of Two Besties,…

Lifestyle

This 20-year-old is introducing jazz to a whole new generation

Rachel Altounian was in my French class, and she always smiled. She had this magnetic…

Lifestyle

Why this young photographer lives a double life as an elderly woman

It must be strange to look into a mirror and see only wisps of your younger self….

Entertainment

A love letter to Miguel de Cervantes

Dear Miguel de Cervantes, As the brain behind Don Quixote, you and your man of…

News

What happens when you find out a loved one is dying

“I will call shortly” The time stamp was for 4:24 p.m. on a Thursday. There…

Music

Cover songs that may be even better than the original

“Without music, life would be a mistake,” Nietzsche is oft quoted as saying. And he…

Lifestyle

The real problem with Yik Yak, the controversial campus app we’re all talking about

Yik Yak, the college chat app, started as a way for students to anonymously swap information…