Author Archives: nikolenka
Just a quick check in from 30,000 feet. I’m so thrilled to finally be on my way to Coachella today. So thrilled, I’m not sure you understand just how happy I am. Enough counting down, enough Refinery 29 music festival fashion slideshows, enough anticipation- I’m on my way. The music starts on Friday. Until then I [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the size of the planet Earth, you’ve heard of Coachella. Every spring images and updates from festival attendees probably jam your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds. For years, I have lived that life. You know, the one where you like your friends’ posts sullenly and enviously from your [...]
Don’t have the time or money to fly out to one of the big music festivals this year? Prefer to pack your concert hopping into one spring day instead of three? The folks at sweetgreen have the solution for you in the form of the Sweetlife Music + Food Festival which will be May 11th, 2013, [...]
In the spirit of trying out all things new, Friday I happened upon an available ticket to go see Swedish electronic dance music DJ Avicii spin at the DC Armory. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, his songs probably will. This year Avicii is up for a Grammy for Best Dance Record for his [...]
Yes, I realize we are already a month into the new year. Maybe it just took some time to sink in for me. I admire all of you who had your new years goals and resolutions written and ready to go by January first. I usually get so caught up in all the traveling and [...]
I’m taking a little blog break for now. Connect with me on Twitter, @nikolenka, if you’d like to keep up with me while I’m not posting. Happy holidays!
Everybody out there is an expert on something. For some people, it’s nuclear engineering. For others, maybe it’s how to develop sophisticated computer programs. I happen to know how to make it through a hurricane. Which is lucky for you if you happen to be in the supposed path of Hurricane Sandy, aka FRANKENSTORM. Before [...]
Watch Women Are Not the Problem, They Are the Solution on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. It’s been almost two weeks since I watched this documentary, Half the Sky, and its heroes haven’t strayed far from my mind since. Check out the trailer, track it down online, give it some thought, and ask yourself [...]
“Let me talk like an old man. Young people, be careful. Beautiful things are disappearing everyday. Be careful.…You don’t need to be [shopping at fast-fashion stores], especially young people. They are beautiful naturally, because they are young. So they should even wear simple jeans and a T-shirt. It’s enough. Don’t be too much fashionable.…The brand [...]
Shopping on etsy.com can be overwhelming. It’s a brilliant site for artists, designers, and others with the creative jonesings to bring their wares to the internet market. Anyone with the desire and the technical skills of a school kid can set up a virtual shop and just like that they’re in business. It’s seriously genius, [...]
