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.

2/21/18 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Eartha Kitt As The Catwoman On Batman’s TV Series

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Eartha Kitt took over the role of Catwoman in 1967 for the third and final season of the Batman television series. She replacing the statuesque Julie Newmar. Kitt’s  perrrrrrfectly delightful cat purr helped make the role truly her own.  Continue reading

2/21/18 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez ART: Midtown Manhattan NYC – Recyclism

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr

Zimbabwe-based artist Zayd Menk created a meticulous scale model of New York City’s downtown Manhattan out of recycled motherboards, hot glue sticks, various CPU bits and three months of calculations via data collected from sites. Continue reading

2/20/18 O&A NYC MUSIC/FILM:The Making Of “Wakanda” With Composer Ludwig Göransson

Marvel film score was created by the Grammy-nominated composer Ludwig Göransson. In the video above created by Genius, Ludwig Göransson explains how he crafted the scoring track Wakanda, named after the fictional East African nation the Black Panther rules over. Continue reading

2/20/18 O&A NYC GOING BACK TO AFRICA WITH WaleStylez: Top 10 Nigerian Male Models


In the past African models optimized the industry’s exotic element; today they have moved into the fashion mainstream.   Continue reading

2/20/18 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Boondocks – All Star Weekend

If you miss the All Star Weekend The Boondocks are a slam dunk Created by Aaron McGruder based upon his comic strip of the same name, the adult animated sitcom series premiered on November 6, 2005 on Cartoon Network’s late night Adult Swim. 

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2/19/18 (REPOST) O&A NYC HEALTH AND WELLNESS: Rapper Nelly’s Celebrity Workout

The rapper Nelly has a good muscular physique, but don’t ever think that Nelly got this spectacular “lean muscular body” by accident.  Continue reading

2/19/19 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Janet Jackson- Love Will Never Do (Without You)

Janet Jackson’s Love Will Never Do (Without You) was more than a video, here Janet came into her own.  Continue reading

2/19/18 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY- CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Stormy Weather- Featuring Katherine Dunham And Her Dance Troupe

Stormy Weather is a 1943 film musical produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The movie is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with an all African-American cast and serve to  showcase of some of the top African-American performers of the time. Continue reading

2/18/18 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez SPORTS: Three-Point Contest – Championship Round – Full Highlights | 2018 NBA All-Star Saturday Night

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr

The Three-Point Contest is an NBA contest held on the Saturday before the annual  All Star Game as part of All Star Weekend.From its introduction in 1986 to 2002, and again in 2017, eight participants were selected to participate in each season’s shootout.  Continue reading

2/18/18 O&A NYC SUNDAY GOSPEL: Mahalia Jackson- Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Precious Lord, Take My Hand was Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite song, and he often invited gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to sing it at civil rights rallies to inspire crowds; at his request she sang it at his funeral in April 1968. Continue reading