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How to Avoid Burnout: Tips From a Touring Musician

Keep sickness and fatigue at bay with this kit.

How to Start an Art Journal

Everything you need to tap into your crafty side.

What to Pack for a Music Festival

A festival veteran recommends nine essentials and a few fun extras.

How to Pot an Indoor Succulent

An easy tutorial for planting your first succulent.

The One Plant That Should Be In Every Home

Summer Rayne Oakes, an environmental scientist and author, shares house plant shopping tips at Sprout Home in Williamsburg.

How to Start a Home Yoga Practice

Get the premium yoga studio experience—minus the hefty membership fee.

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before We Moved In Together

How to prepare for living with a significant other—emotionally, materially, and financially.

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A Neighborhood Restaurant Perseveres

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | The owners of Popina, an Italian-Southern eatery on the Columbia Waterfront, weather COVID with multiple pivots and a giant backyard.

In the East Village, Proof that it Takes a Village

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | The duo behind East Village Vintage Collective relied on their neighbors to make it through the worst of the pandemic.

Betting on “The Underdog of Food”

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | Meet the woman behind Tart, a small-batch vinegar brand that popped off in lockdown.

Pizza to the Rescue

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | A wine and cheese bar in Williamsburg pulls through COVID with a pizza pivot.

A Park Slope Nightclub Commits to Survival

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | After a year without in-person shows, Barbès returns to what it does best: bringing people together around live music.

To Cure the COVID Blues, Get Crafty

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | After pausing IRL events for the foreseeable future, a NYC-based crafting community found a new sense of purpose online.

One Year Later

COVID-19 #SmallBizSpotlight | Checking in with the wine bar that helped launch this column.