Catch and Release: Chapter 8 | 8th Street Wine Cellar
Photo and story by Karen Rempel Dear readers, if you missed Chapter 7, you can read it here. I’m taking you back to a dating […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel Summer is here and it’s time to put on your coolest whites and head for the mountains, forests, lakes, and beaches. If […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 7 | Harvard on the F Train
By Karen Rempel George has given up on marrying me off. He realized his well-meant words of advice were falling into a black hole, where […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel Keith was an awfully good sport about being comedic fodder for my Catch and Release foray into fiction. When I saw this […]
Cubbyhole in the Cubbyhood
By Karen Rempel Our very own Cubbyhole Bar reopened in April. Cubbyhole is one of only three remaining lesbian bars in NYC. The others are […]
Larry Stanton Captured a Lost Generation of Young Gay Men
By Karen Rempel “People make their own faces and Larry knew this instinctively.” David Hockney wrote this two years after his friend’s death, describing Larry […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 6
The Christmas Date Part 3 By Karen Rempel George was waxing philosophical again. “I have a trite aphorism that I offer all the time: men […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel New York Tough. New York Proud. New York Variant. Rona the virus is drooping. I began tracking coronavirus news daily, obsessively, in March […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 5 | The Christmas Date Part 2
By Karen Rempel This Catch and Release thing is really picking up momentum. Not only is George giving me advice on my love life, but […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel This month’s look veers into very quirky territory, bringing a confluence of three distinct elements into a unique look that combines disparate […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems… Do you recognize this geometric structure? […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 4 | The Christmas Date Part 1
Fleeing the Scene of the Crime. Photo by Philip Maier. By Karen Rempel George called me the other morning and said he had thought about […]
Village Vintner Salutes the Real Women of Booze
By Karen Rempel As you walk past Village Vintner on Sixth Avenue between West 10th and West 11th, you might do a double-take. An eye-catching […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 3 | Drinks at Ascent
Previously: Chapter 2 – The Proposition By Karen Rempel George must have watched Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire a few too many […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel An early casualty of the pandemic, Gato at 324 Lafayette Street closed in March 2020. Owner Bobby Flay said, “As of March […]
Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel My love affair with New York began in Washington Square Park. I parachuted into the Washington Square Hotel on my first trip […]
Catch and Release: Chapter 2 | The Proposition
By Karen Rempel Previously: Chapter 1 – Meeting Keith My publisher George thinks his dating stories are better than mine. “Men can roam more freely […]
New Year, New Issue, New Column
Happy New Year 2021! We treasure both our online subscribers and our print subscribers. We exist for you and because of you. Thank you for […]