Photos courtesy of Marc Veraart

It’s Fashion Week in New York, and though we’re looking forward to the deluge of photos from the catwalks, the parties, the front rows, we’d like to know what people are really wearing. Send us your photos of real people, off the catwalk — the good, the bad, and, dare we say, the ugly. The winner will receive a complimentary two-night stay at the Ace Hotel New York and a $1,000 shopping spree with DwellStudio, the design house for modern home and family furnishings. Click here to read the contest rules, and get shooting!

Photo Courtesy of Ace Hotel New York and Tablet Hotels

The Ace Hotel New York has everything the savvy retro connoisseur could want. From vintage furniture to custom-made turntables and Gibson guitars in some of the rooms. Even the bathrooms have a vintage, hand-made feel — mostly because the shower curtains and hardware actually are.

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Photo Courtesy of Needoptic on Flickr

It was during a trip to the Catskills that I first discovered my love of real-estate porn. Fellow fiends already know exactly what I’m talking about, but for the uninitiated, allow me to explain.

I was enjoying an idyllic wintertime stay in the Genie’s Bottle Suite at the Roxbury Hotel. My holiday there was decadent, consisting mostly of frolicking in the snow with nothing but boots, a robe, and a glass of vodka. As I’m sure you can imagine, it was paradise. After a particularly strenuous frolic I settled in for a much deserved midday nap under the home fires of a large flat screen television. It was then that I stumbled across House Hunters International on HGTV and realized I had been wrong all along; real paradise was other people’s fancy kitchens. Read more »

Peter McGough and his partner in art David McDermott mark the beginning of the modern world at the outbreak of the First World War, and they’re having nothing to do with any of it. Their dedication to the past is something more than just a retro aesthetic or a backward-looking worldview; it’s somewhere between a lifelong piece of performance art, and a fully realized, semi-private alternative universe. Find out more about its points of intersection with the 21st century at Revel in New York.

Photo Courtesy of Krynsky on Flickr

Conventional wisdom has it that street food vendors provide a lower-quality fare than restaurants. While that may have been true of your grandmother’s grease trucks, it’s definitely not the case anymore. Used to battling perceptions that their kitchens aren’t as clean as their brick-and-mortar counterparts (false, it’s the mobile food purveyors who have the most to lose from keeping a dirty workstation), sidewalk vendors have turned their attention to the myth that their product is inferior too.

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Photo Courtesy of Micah Taylor on Flikr

Marc and Jessica Mitchell recently moved from New York to Los Angeles, and elected to do it in quintessential American style: by car. Along the way they sent us dispatches from the road; here’s one on the topic of classic American roadside cuisine.

A road trip through America gives you a chance to sample drive-thrus you’ve never experienced. Out of the many, a few have been elevated to mythical status. If you’re from California you’ve been to In-N-Out. If you’re from New York, you’ve been to White Castle. If you aren’t from these places, you’ve certainly heard about these fast-food chains and the passion they elicit from their fans.

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