Out & About NYC Magazine was founded to offer the arts and lifestyle enthusiast a fresh new look at New York City. We will showcase the established and the emerging, the traditional and the trendy. And we will do it with élan, and panache with a dash of fun.

5/24/02 O&A NYC LOCKDOWN HISTORY: Life Aboard a Slave Ship

From approximately 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Middle Passage to serve as slaves in the New World. Life aboard slave ships was agonizing and dangerous; nearly 2 million slaves would perish on their journey across the Atlantic.
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5/23/20 O&A NYC SATURDAY MORNING CONCERT: Janet Jackson (2019) Live Full Concert

Janet Jackson 2019 live concert- she just keeps getting better and better! Continue reading

5/23/20 O&A NYC GRILLING FOR THE WEEKEND: Jerk- Adding Spice To Your Memorial Weekend Grilling

By Rita Rubino

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Jerk- Not the antagonist in Terry McMillian real life drama, a movie with Steve Martin or Jerry Lewis, not a 1950’s beatnik dance, but a hot and spicy rub for chicken and pork.

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5/22/20 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: A Conversation With Calvin Royal III- The Best Is Yet To Come

By Walter Rutledge

 

On an unseasonably cold Sunday April morning Calvin Royal III met my at the East Harlem storefront dance studio of Robin William’s Uptown Dance Academy. The interview was in conjunction with his first upcoming New York City season as a soloist with American Ballet Theater (ABT). This also marked the first time in over two decades a black man ascended to the rank of soloist with ABT. Continue reading

5/21/20 O&A NYC LOWNDOWN HISTORY: What Did Ancient Egypt Look Like? (Cinematic Animation)

Ever wonder what ancient Egypt really looked like? Here is a cinematic animation of how the ancient civilization probably looked.    Continue reading

5/20/20 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941)- Racially Banned Cartoon

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941) is the racially banned cartoon for the hit boogie-woogie popular song written by Don Raye. A bawdy, jazzy tune, the song describes a laundry woman from Harlem, New York City, whose technique is so unusual that people come from all around just to watch her scrub. Continue reading

5/20/20 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: Vado – Politics Feat. Dave East

Dave East is a Hip Hop artist and actor from Harlem,NewYork. Dave East started rapping in 2010 and sold drugs throughout Harlem to support himself and his music, releasing over six mixtapes.He gained attention in 2014 from his eighth mixtape, Black Rose Continue reading

5/20/20 O&A NYC LOCKDOWN WORKOUT: Shaun T’s Plank & Push-Up Burnout Challenge

Television fitness guru Shaun T offer a Plank and Push-up Burnout Challenge- burn baby, burn! Continue reading