Maria Bianca Algieri at the 2019/2020 Article22 Bryant Park Holiday Shop Among the 100-plus kiosks at this year’s Holiday Shops open-air marketplace at Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park, ARTICLE22 stood out, both for its designated ethical accessories/sustainable fashion product and for the story behind it. After all, the Brooklyn-based supplier is named after Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which holds that every member of society has the right to soci

BENU's "Royal Purple" Minima fountain pen In this day of all things digital, there’s still a sizable and growing market for fans of the antiquated fountain pen. Enter BENU a young and growing pen company based in Moscow and named for the Egyptian sunbird identified with the sun god Ra, creator of the universe and giver of life. “Periodically renewing itself like the sun, BENU is a symbol of constant changes, recurrence, renovations,” says Kate Dmitrieva, who launched BENU wit

San Salvador performs at New York Hilton Midtown during APAP San Francisco’s Riot Artists agency has a tradition of bringing some of the most intriguing and exciting artists to the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conferences at the New York Hilton Midtown (among them, Dakh Daughters and Dakha Brakha, both from Ukraine), and this year it was San Salvador. Hailing from the town of Saint-Salvadour in southwestern France, the young, high-energy a cappella/percuss

"Panga" trailer The latest entry in Bollywood movies empowering women through sports (including Aamir Khan’s 2016 Dangal, where he coaches his daughter to a wrestling championship, and Priyanka Chopra’s 2014 Mary Kom, where she portrays the Indian Olympics boxing medalist), Panga (“to mess with”) involves the popular South Asian contact team sport of kabaddi. Directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (India’s Filmfare Award winner for Best Director for the 2017 comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi