Download our new trendspotting app DailyCandy Scout, then share your plan-of-attack photos for tackling the biggest party night of the year. In exchange, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a crowd-pleasing drinking glass set courtesy of Uncommon Goods.
These are a few of our favorite things.
We’ve got salient advice to give; it has to do with arm candy from 2012.
Dance 2012 away with the local singer’s favorite booty-shakin’ beats.
Furniture shops, floral designers, and decor boutiques helped us feather our nest this year. Here’s who made things especially sweet.
From a dog who’ll show you how to get rich quick to an expert tutorial on how to not look creepy on a webcam, here are our favorite videos of the year.
A few odds and ends from the past twelve months worth a second read. Fish and plant delivery services, art parties with naked men, and ways to look and feel your best in the New Year after the jump.
The best way to start the New Year? A hangover marathon showcasing the city you’ll tear up tonight.
You always resolve to indulge in fewer bloody marys and more Pilates. Well, friend, here are eleven ways to stay committed to your resolutions, ensuring more wonder years.
From shucking oysters to sugaring to dubstepping to hanging out in a tube filled with -270° nitrogen, 2012 was nothing short of awesome (if not a little strange). We recap the city’s best discoveries.
Food trucks and pop-ups have their place, but here are our picks for the eateries that sated our appetites for adventure this year.
Regrets — you’re about to have a few. Lessen your New Year’s Eve lamentations with a couple of medicinal cocktails to see you through to January 2.
We’ve discovered useful, kooky, and sexy services over the course of the year. In case you missed one (for shame), we’ve rounded up ten of our favorites.
Get your gorgeous on with these top picks from the past year.
Aches, pains, anxiety, and even frizzy hair didn’t stand a chance in 2012. We share the businesses that cured what ailed us.
We sifted through the noise to bring you the MP3s, EPs, LPs, breakout singers, and live sets that rocked our 2012.
Learn what should be in your wallet, how to make the best breakfast of all time, and what a dermatologist uses on her own skin.
It’s been a year full of food trucks, clothing line launches, and beauty treatments fit for a queen. Check out what else we loved this year.
Those gift cards will come in handy. Swing by our favorite new shops and treat yourself to something nice.
Break the cycle of endless online returns. Unplug and mosey over to one of our favorite brick-and-mortars.
Taste the city’s best restaurants, recipes, and culinary concepts from 2012.
It was a great year for retail therapy. Our favorite new shops helped us feel okay about blowing our budget.
We dread bedtime. It’s the final act in a long day that never seems to end — it’s too dark, someone has to pee, and everybody is thirsty. But we love books at bedtime.
Pretty is as pretty does. Click through for the year’s most-loved creams, serums, sticks, and shticks.
We round up the most exciting store openings: where to find indie designer frocks, international lines, quirky home goods, and even luxe hoodies after the jump.
Between swirls of vegan soft-serve and tortes with crushed-pretzel crust, there was plenty to devour in 2012. Here’s where we ask for seconds.
After a brief hiatus, BarLab reintroduces The Broken Shaker to Miami Beach at Freehand Miami, a new hostel with a sleepaway-camp vibe and the best backyard bar in town. But don’t take our word for it. Try one of its drink recipes and taste for yourself.
New Year’s Eve is a time for celebrating with friends and toasting new beginnings — and looking your best. From hair to makeup to sparkly party dress to last-minute plans, we’ve got you covered.
Kiss the future hello at one of six recently opened hotspots.
It’s time to give credit where credit’s due. Take a look back at the fashion designers, food purveyors, shop owners, and decorators who made 2012 a(nother) year to remember.
We first started wearing Chuck Taylors in college as an outward manifestation of our inner creative angst (yes, with thick flannels and ripped jeans). So imagine our delight when we discovered the kid-size collaboration between Converse and Crayola.
End the year happily ever after with a feast at one of 2012’s stellar new spots to eat.
Note: Reading while hungry may lead to impromptu dinner reservations.
Good news for those with a big appetite: This year Chicago dished it right.
Well, now that it’s over, let’s do it again! Whoever said Christmas comes but once a year was just plain wrong. Spend the next twelve days with a dozen of our favorite movies from 2012.
From pork to Chinese and pizza to cocktails, 2012 was a yummy year. Our 21 favorite new restaurants after the jump.
Download our new trendspotting app DailyCandy Scout, then share your favorite dessert photos of the week. In exchange, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a delectable gift package courtesy of Liddabit Sweets.
Get low this holiday season.
Ho ho hold off on trendy pours this season. We got the details on an updated classic from one of the city’s top barmen.
Wow your holiday party guests with decadent homemade cookies (with a little help from a local pastry expert).
A look back at what we found, loved, coveted, and wrote about in 2012. One thing is certain: It was a very good year.
We’re going all in on fashion stylist and editor Matthew Edelstein’s sporty new line.
From low-key shindigs to clubby blowouts, we round up thirteen of the best New Year’s Eve parties and dinners in NYC.
Treat yourself to a good mix while you work it with measuring spoons and cookie sheets.
Tommy Up of PYT fame found inspiration (and a name) for his recently opened cocktail lounge from the soft-core film Emmanuelle. But with all the hard-core holiday shopping, you can’t be blamed for not checking it out yet.
PYT’s Tommy Up names the racy film Emmanuelle as inspiration for his suave cocktail lounge. Mixologists Katie Loeb and Phoebe Esmon shake and stir drinks based on French classics.
Your go-to appetizers are as tired as Santa on December 26, and you can’t stand to bake (or eat) another holiday cookie. Try an easy fruited salsa recipe and turn your holiday gathering into a fiesta.
Hey, good looking. You didn’t get that pretty on your own. It’s time to recognize the most exciting beauty and fashion discoveries of the year.
Rev up your holiday revelry with our playlist of seasonal indie tunes.
All we want for Christmas is an endless supply of candid canine photos. Here are a few of our favorite snaps from the week.