Natalie Gonzalez

Natalie Gonzalez

Painting and jazz brighten summer Sundays in City Park

By Natalie GonzalezJune 24, 2012

Starting today, June 24, you can enjoy live jazz while you learn to paint in City Park. Every Sunday through the summer, Colors & Bottles offer $35 classes from 5 to 8 p.m., which happen to coincide with the City Park jazz series. So bring a blanket, an easel and…

Stinky feet…or world-class cheese? Q&A with the Truffle Cheese Shop’s Miguel Verain, a competitor in the Cheesemonger Invitational

By Natalie GonzalezJune 22, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, cheesemongers do not actually cure cheese — they handle it — and tomorrow, at the third annual Cheesemonger Invitational in Long Island, New York, 45 of them from around the country will be tested on their handling skills, with the winner walking away with $1,000 in…