Welcome to Outside The Kitchen, a new lifestyle column that shares tips, product recommendations, and stories that extends, well, outside the kitchen. I’ve been doing my hair since I was 16 years old – styled it, cut it, relaxed it, fried it, etc. and by no means was I a professional. I was just an…
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What is Galentine’s Day? A Guide to the Best Made Up Holiday
What is Galentine’s Day exactly? To be perfectly honest, I had to google its origin because I had no idea where it came from. Was this another ramification of Hallmark the way they’ve pushed chocolate and overpriced teddybears onto us for Valentines Day (ahem – another made up holiday)? Or, perhaps it was a result…
Here’s How to Celebrate Black History Month Today, Tomorrow, and Everyday
Not sure how many people know this (I certainly didn’t until I got older) but, Black history month didn’t start out as the full month of February. In 1926, Harvard-trained author and historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founded African American History week to fall over Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas’ birthdays, two significant figures in…
Outside the Kitchen: Where To Eat Outside In The West Village
Welcome to Outside The Kitchen, a new lifestyle column that shares tips, product recommendations, and stories that extends, well, outside the kitchen. With a city so large and beautiful, like New York, there are a ton of things to do and neighborhoods to explore — and they’re only a $2.75 subway, bus ride away, or…