Lynne Lavelle

The 8 Best Art Exhibitions Right Now

Everything That Happens to Your Body On Hot Sauce

Reason 1,000 that humans are weird: we’ve evolved to crave both pleasure and pain, aka “benign masochism.”

Awesome Things You Didn't Know You Could Do in Ireland

So you’ve seen the Giant’s Causeway and laid lips on the Blarney Stone.

The Gentleman’s Gift Guide

They say you can buy fashion, but not style.

10 Reasons The Master Sommelier Test Is The Hardest in The World

Everyone knows that becoming a Master Sommelier is hard, but nobody knows how hard quite like the cast of Esquire Network’s upcoming docu-series, Uncorked.

A Top NYC Food Photographer's 5 Favorite Spots

Andrew Scrivani is a photographer, director, and writer whose Instagram feed is 100 times more delicious than yours.

New York's 5 Best Neighborhood Bars, According to PDT's Jeff Bell

When he’s not running PDT, bartender Jeff Bell hangs out at bars that don’t require navigating bacon-wrapped hot dogs and old-timey telecommunication devices to gain entry -- just opening the front door will do.

What's a Long-Term Relationship These Days Anyway?

How can you tell if you are in a relationship with potential when the dating landscape changes every week, causing lakes to become mountains, and deserts to become rain forests, metaphorically speaking?

Meet the Rebels Who Are Changing the Way We Drink

In this world, you've got to stand for something, even when you're standing behind the bar.

New Belgium’s Tour de Fat Will Destroy Your Notions About Precious Beer Snobs

If you’ve ever attended a Tour de Fat -- New Belgium Brewing’s touring carnival of beer, bikes, and wonderfully bizarre costumes -- you'll know that absolutely no one fits the much-maligned image of the craft beer lover as snooty fetishist with nothing going on in his life outside of his glass and his smug opinions about its contents.

The 14 Coolest Urban Spaces in America

Who says you have to leave the city to smell the roses/lick some sculpture/whatever you're into?

The 21 Best Designed Restaurants in America

Dining out is a holistic experience -- a commune between taste, aroma, sight, surroundings, and whether or not you can find parking (damn it what the hell is happening to this city!).