BY KAREN REMPEL | “Girls don’t play rock’n’roll,” 13-year-old Joan Jett’s guitar teacher told her. Two years later, Jett founded the Runaways. Don’t tell a…
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BY KAREN REMPEL | Electric Lady Studios is a mystical Village lodestone with a platinum rock ’n’ roll pedigree. Founded by Jimi Hendrix in August…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I stayed at the iconic Washington Square Hotel on my first trip to New York, in 2014, because of its literary…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Storefront fortune tellers are almost as ubiquitous as nail salons in New York. Who among us hasn’t succumbed to the lure…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Happy New Year! The days have been cool, gray and rainy in New York City this winter. Not at all the…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Can you spot the dearly beloved, majestic steamship of a building plowing forward toward Madison Square Park? Yes, it’s the Beaux…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I first heard about CBGB at a party in high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. My friends were playing the Talking…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I always have fun on photo shoots for this column, but the shoot outside Chelsea Guitars was exceptionally boisterous. First of…
BY KAREN REMPEL | On my first trip to New York, in 2014, I ditched the “Search Inside Yourself” course that brought me to the…
A highlight of Saturday’s “We Love NYC: A Homecoming Concert” on the Great Lawn was iconic guitarist Carlos Santana and singer Rob Thomas’s performance of…