Whether you're new to the world of podcasts and don't know where to start or just looking for some new programs to listen to, we asked passersby for their favorite podcasts to help you in your search.
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Recommended by passersby like Anna Deutsch, Marjon Carlos, Ellis Jones, Olivia Fleming, and countless others, Five Leaves is one of Greenpoint's most popular brunch locations, and a recent visit to the restaurant on the corner of Lorimer Street and Bedford Ave proved why.
Read MorePicking a brunch spot is no simple feat: in addition to the menu, the perfect place has the offer the right combination of ambiance, location, and pricing. For brunch in Los Angeles, we went straight to the source and collected the recommendations of LA passerby for the restaurants and cafés they love.
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Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Pies 'n' Thighs offers New Yorkers a menu of Southern comfort food favorites, with accolades for its fried chicken, biscuits, apple pie, and doughnuts.
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Full eyebrows are here to stay, and if you haven’t found your holy grail brow product yet, there’s no time like the present. From Glossier’s Boy Brow to Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Dip Brow, we rounded up the brow products that passersby recommend most.
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For my first facial experience, I visited Diane Higgins in her Upper East Side salon for an appointment that was relaxing, restorative, and educational. Higgins is known as beauty editors’ best-kept secret, a testimonial that has been echoed in the recommendations of passersby.
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After many disappointing stays in trendy Paris boutique hotels, Le Pigalle’s laid back vibe and attentive (but not too much so) service offered a refreshing change of pace for a quick stay in one of Paris’s most colorful neighborhoods.
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After 6 months of contemplating a major hair transformation, I finally took the plunge. Following the recommendation of passerby Alyssa Coscarelli, I booked an appointment at Bumble and bumble's Bb.Salon and let the hair fall.
Read MoreIllustrator Cerise Zelenetz visits passerby-recommended MIMI, a bistro in the West Village, and shares her experience—along with illustrations of her meal—with Passerbuys.
Read MoreDespite the endless number of coffee shops in Brooklyn, it can be hard to find the perfect one. We rounded up some of the spots that have been recommended most by passersby, so you can find the best coffee in every neighborhood.
Read MoreAs the Passerbuys Lounge at Canal Street Market comes to an end, we teamed up with two of our partners on the space, West Elm and SONOS, to host a Playlist Potluck dinner celebrating women and female empowerment, with drinks served by Johnnie Walker and dinner by Dimes.
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We stopped by the highly-recommended Greenpoint vintage shop to browse the racks that have made passersby like Jenna Saraco, Nicole Steriovski, Sara Radin, Andrea Toscano, and Sue Williamson dedicated customers.
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Popular Passerbuys are the products that come most-recommended by passersby – the items that keep popping up in profile after profile.We want to make finding real recommendations simple, so we’re turning some of those Popular Passerbuys into a series of guides that you can browse and shop.
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“Maman (Mother In French) Is The Brainchild Of Couple Benjamin Sormonte And Elisa Marshall With Michelin Star Chef Armand Arnal.”
Like A Maman, The Breakfast, Brunch And Lunch Options Are Slices From The Recipe Books Of The French Mediterranean. The Freshly Baked Bread, Croissants, Quiche And Locally Sourced Salads Are Designed To Bring You Back To A Time And Place Maman Cooked For You. A Popular Cafe Among Passerbuys We Checked Out Mamans Greenpoint, Brooklyn Location For Lunch.
Words by Clemmie Saglio & Photography by Ana Lafond
We all deserve a little break, so we decided to celebrate Valentine's Day a little early by slowing down and taking the time to show ourselves some love at our Galentine's Day Market at Urban Outfitters' Space Ninety 8 in Williamsburg.
Read More"I'm My Own Boss, What Now?" was a discussion for creatives, entrepreneurs, and freelancers. Our panel included experienced and successful businesswomen who have all been their own boss in a variety of industries. During an evening of inspiration, advice, and conversation, they shared what it’s really like to work for yourself.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Passerbuys hosted its first panel discussion in collaboration with Urban Outfitters offering advice on post-grad life. We asked some of our favorite passersby for tips, initiatives & experiences.
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“As 2016 comes to an end we’re looking back at our favorite tv shows of the year...”
From brand new series to new seasons, these are the ultimate binge-worthy series you need to know about. These next couple of weeks really are meant for clicking that 'continue watching' button on Netflix — though we admit we're a little hurt every time it asks. (Yes, Netflix, I really am going to watch this episode of The Office for the 52nd time.) But for these shows you'll definitely want to clear your schedule and hunker down to run through these episodes. Happy Bingeing!
Atlanta is 2016's new comedy show written by and starring Donald Glover. The show centers around life in Atlanta with Alfred Miles, a hot up and coming rapper, and his entourage.
Togetherness follows two couples living together in Los Angeles. It catalogues their relationships as friends, couples and as individuals pursuing their dreams.
Better Things revolves around the life of a single mom raising three teenage daughters and trying to hold onto her acting career. The brilliant writing is the result of the shows star, Pamela Adlon, and comic genius Louis C.K.
Transparent is - in our opinion - one of the greatest shows of the decade. The Amazon show follows a family as they learn that their patriarch has kept his identity as a transgender person private from his children. We watch as family dynamics change, become raw and other family secrets come to light.
Julia Louise-Dreyfuss plays VP Selina Meyer in this uber-successful HBO series that, very appropriately, released a new season right in the midst of the election. Personally, if she were real, we would've preferred a President Meyer than what we ended up getting.
This years new Netflix series follows infamous Colombian kingpin, Pablo Escobar. We alternate POVs between the Drug Enforcement Agency and Escobar as they play out their game of cat and mouse.
A weekly roundup of all things cultural and political - and generally relevant - with a splash of satire courtesy of John Oliver. Perfection.
In the era of Serial, Making a Murderer and The Jinx it should hardly come as a surprise that HBO contributed another series to add to the genre. The Night Of, an eight episode mini-series, explores an odd murder in New York City that brings in issues of culture and politics.
This pick shouldn't come as a surprise as this kid crew has pretty much taken the world by storm. Stranger Things is set in 1980 in a small town in Indiana. The plot of this science fiction show follows the disappearance of a young boy from the town and the mysteries his friends and families have to unravel in order to find him.
Mr. Robot is about a mentally unstable computer hacker in New York City. The show is wildly confusing and totally worth it. We want to think this is what Anonymous is like. Kind of. This show originally premiered in 2015, but released its second season just recently in fall 2016.
“With everyone seemingly listening to singles or playlists these days, I feel like artists are stepping away from crafting long-playing albums, and that’s fine by me when there are so many great one-offs to discover.”
Usher's No Limit is probably my favorite song in 2016, along with Young M.a.'s OOOUU. Still I can't help but miss the experience of a great album, and it was refreshing to see what artists went that route, with Frank Ocean, Blood Orange and Solange setting the bar high. Hopefully that'll inspire more artists to follow suit next year. In the meantime, here's yet another playlist, my favorite tracks of 2016. There were a select few albums that did it for me, from songs that grew on me with repeat listens (Anohni), to songs that immediately grabbed me but I might not listen to in 2017... which you won't find here! So without further ado, here are favorite albums of the year. I'd also love to hear what you've been listening to (in the comments below.) And don't forget, every week we publish playlists from featured Passersby, so if you're still looking for more great music, be sure to follow along. Happy listening!
By Clémence Polès
Elle, Image Courtesy of IndieWire
“Every December, I carefully pick my top ten favorite films and albums of the year. Over the years, I’ve posted my lists on Tumblr or whatever blog I had a the time.”
I had no readers, yet for some reason it’s become a thing I’ve looked forward to every year - I even get made fun of for taking it so seriously! My Decembers have been reserved for canceling every plan I may have so that I can binge watch the remaining movies of the year. I’m not going to lie, I’m glad I started Passerbuys because now I have a better platform to inflict my list upon (I’m sorry!) I’m not much of a writer, so I’ll let the synopses take it from here, but I do hope that you enjoy these films as much as I did.
After being attacked in her own home, the ruthless head of a video game company tracks down her rapist and is drawn into a thrilling game that threatens to spiral out of control at any moment.
Karamakate is an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people. In the early 1900s, he befriends two German scientists as they search for a rare healing plant over the course of 40 years.
A dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over the course of her short lifetime that offers an honest look at the American experience.
In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending, and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Three sisters who live together travel to the countryside for the funeral of their estranged father and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with their orphaned sibling, they invite her to live with them.
In 1930s Korea, during Japanese occupation, a new girl hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress is secretly involved in a plot to defraud her.
A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and comes of age in Miami during the "War on Drugs" era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own sexuality.
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble.
A middle aged carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two children as they navigate their way through the state welfare system.
Words by Clémence Polès
