Email Author Araceli Cruz

2010 Stories by Araceli Cruz

• Feeling Gloomy: Down With Dating

  published February 9, 2010

  If love is getting you down, spend V-Day dancing with other depressed American Apparel–wearing individuals at Feeling Gloomy: Down With... More >>

• Valentine's Day Pajama Party Meatup

  published February 9, 2010

  There's still time to get laid by V-Day (or a couple of days before, depending on how advanced your social skills are). Valentine's Day Pajama... More >>

• Anti V-Day Party

  published February 9, 2010

  Feeling bored with love? So is writer, playboy, and make-out addict Jonathan Ames. Join him and his fellow wordsmiths who will read from... More >>

• HIGHER GROUND

  published February 9, 2010

  Let the New Year finally begin with some cosmic style at Brooklynite Gallery's first exhibition of 2010, Stealth: Artists Above the Radar.... More >>

• ANNA'S WORLD

  published February 9, 2010

  Alas, after 16 years, this is the last Fashion Week in the Tents at Bryant Park (next season, it's onto Lincoln Center!). So for you stylish... More >>

• HEARTS ON FIRE

  published February 2, 2010

  Photographer Sasha Bezzubov has a strange fascination with documenting destruction. Wildfire is Bezzubov's third exhibition at the Front... More >>

• EN VOGUE

  published February 2, 2010

  With Fashion Week coming up, every fashionista needs a few new looks to show off at Bryant Park. But we all know that the pages of Vogue and Elle... More >>

• JUST BETWEEN BROS

  published February 2, 2010

  It's kind of a mixed blessing that the Tyra Banks Show is going off the air. After all, the talk-show circuit could use a bit more... More >>

• MOVE OVER, AMY POEHLER

  published February 2, 2010

  The night I saw Aziz Ansari playing a fruit vendor and cursing out Jemaine in a racist rage on Flight of the Conchords, I knew he'd... More >>

• SPRAY IT, DON'T SAY IT

  published January 26, 2010

  Thanks to street artist Jef Aerosol, we get to walk by the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Bob Dylan every day like it's no biggie. His... More >>

• A WOMAN'S WORK

  published January 26, 2010

  The political activist Gloria Steinem and model Beverly Johnson were both groundbreaking pioneers in the feminist movement: One battled for... More >>

• LIVE FROM NEW YORK . . .

  published January 26, 2010

  If you're like us, you've tried scoring Saturday Night Live tickets through their lottery mail system every year—and every year,... More >>

• ART SMARTS

  published January 26, 2010

  If you think making pit stops at the New Museum, watching the Oscars, and knowing every Lady Gaga single makes you a culturally aware individual,... More >>

• I MISSED YOU

  published January 19, 2010

  I, brunette and malnutritioned, was eyeing the barbecue pizza at the Whole Foods on Bowery. You, hot with light-brown hair and a beard, got a... More >>

• DANCE IT ON DOWN

  published January 19, 2010

  In 1967, a news and sports reporter emceed a local talent showcase in Chicago that quickly gained popularity and became a long-running television... More >>

• FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT

  published January 19, 2010

  Gallery Hanahou is doing it again! Making us giddy, that is. Whether they're exposing new and local DIY artists or displaying little plush toys,... More >>

• SHORT & SWEET

  published January 19, 2010

  Twitter's 140-character limit is a piece of cake compared to the act of condensing a meaningful expression into just six words. But the folks... More >>

• MYSTIC WOMAN

  published January 12, 2010

  Michelle duBois is you and me—the flirtatious being who gets lost in her own reflection, practicing the pose, photographing herself because,... More >>

• DEAR E-MAIL

  published January 12, 2010

  Years ago—like, say, back in 1997—people used to keep sacred letters stored in special boxes like treasure—now, they're stored... More >>

• HEART OF A MAN

  published January 12, 2010

  In 2006, director Jonathan Demme directed Neil Young: Heart of Gold, an extensive documentary on the musician, his family, his peers, and,... More >>

• Grunt … Grunt … Explode!

  published January 12, 2010

  Could it be that Hollywood types like Ed Norton and Eric Bana were too much of a diva to play the Hulk again? Could there be no other actor with... More >>

• STRIPPED

  published January 5, 2010

  I’ve experienced three exhilarating moments in my life: 1) visiting the Sistine Chapel; 2) sitting on a speaker onstage in front of thousands... More >>

• THE DARKNESS

  published January 5, 2010

  More than a year ago, curators at Last Rites Gallery asked artists to think outside the box and create a piece of work that was unlike their... More >>