Month: June 2018

  • Rainbow Sprinkles and Rockaway Beach: 5 Things to Love About Summer in New York

    Rainbow Sprinkles and Rockaway Beach: 5 Things to Love About Summer in New York

    We like to complain about New York summers here at Z&S. I take it as a sign that we are becoming truly assimilated, joining the grand tradition of straphangers venting about the grind of daily life. There’s the smell and the heat, the broken down trains and the spitting air conditioners and the swarming tourists…

  • Early Summer 2018 Playlist: This is My Throwback Song

    Early Summer 2018 Playlist: This is My Throwback Song

    It may not be Thursday, but we’re throwing it back with the early summer playlist. The heat and humidity always take us back to driving by the Ohio River with our windows down, belting whatever was on the radio at the top of our lungs or jamming out to a carefully burned CD from a…

  • 5 Musicals That Should Exist, But Don’t

    5 Musicals That Should Exist, But Don’t

    Well, another theater season is over, and “The Band’s Visit” ran away with all the Tony’s. We’re happy for them (Zelda, who saw and adored the show, especially), but still we can’t say we weren’t a bit underwhelmed by the selection of musicals on Broadway this year. I’m not saying that the musicals out there…

  • Around These Parts

    Around These Parts

    I was sitting in a bar in Louisville with my sister a couple weeks ago, sipping on bourbon-spiked iced tea, when we overheard the girls next to us chatting with the bartender. As we listened, it became apparent that they were tourists, asking him for tips on where to go out that night. And as…