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.

3/2/16 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez- FASHION: Bulgari 2016 Spring/Summer Accessories Bags And Jewelry

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.
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From Milan Fashion Week the Spring Summer Bulgari Acceccories Collection. Mireia Lopez Montoya, Managing Director Bulgari Accessories, introduces the new bags inspired to the two iconic Bulgari Jewelry collection: Serpenti Forever and Bvlgari Signature. The 2016 Spring Summer Collection includes Bejewelled a limited editon bag in python, which decoration is inspired at a iconic Bulgari nacklace created in 1968. Continue reading

3/1/16 O&A NYC ENTERTAINMENT: Screen Guild Awards – Saturday Night Live

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Saturday Night Live mocked how no black actors were nominated for Oscars with a sketch about the fictitious Screen Guild Awards, where not one person up for an award was black, even though many of the films were about African-Americans.  Continue reading

3/1/16 O&A NYC INSPIRATIONAL TUESDAY: Chris Botti In Boston- Performs Emmanuel With Lucia Micarelli (PBS)

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Chris Botti and Lucia Micarelli perform Michel Colombier’s haunting modern classic Emmanuel.  Continue reading

2/29/16 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Boyz N The Hood (Excerpts)

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Boyz n the Hood (1991) The groundbreaking urban drama and directorial debut film written and directed by John Singleton. The film depicts life in South Central Los Angeles, California and marked the acting debut of Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut  Boyz n the Hood also starred Cuba Gooding, Jr., Larry Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Bassett.  Continue reading

2/27/16 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Erykah Badu Live At Java Jazz Festival (2012)

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Erykah Badu, the reigning first lady of neo soul gave a hypnotizing appearance  at the 2012 Java Jazz Festival. Her performance became one of the most shining highlight for the festival’s first day.    Continue reading

2/27/16 O&A NYC BLACK HISTORY MONTH- REMEMBERING MALCOLM X: Ossie Davis’s Eulogy For Malcolm X

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Actor Ossie Davis delivered this moving eulogy on the 27th of February 1965 at the funeral service for Malcolm X.  Malcolm X was assassinated  on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Continue reading

2/28/16 O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY- ANYTHING GOES: Rick Owens- Spring/Summer Menswear 2016

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Lighten is a relative term for Rick Owens. After years of skirting his love of the late Steven Parrino’s art, he surrendered to his influence here, duplicating Parrino’s crumpled, slashed canvases with a finale of his own sculpted volumes.  Continue reading