Thanks for dropping by my website. I am a journalist based in New York City, and write the Weekend in New York column for The New York Times Travel section, which includes occasional videos. I have also done freelance work for Time Out New York, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Concierge.com, the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, ARTnews and others. I am not, however, a web designer. (Can you tell?)
For more information, check my bio page; for my blog, click here; for examples of my work, the Clips page; for information on the class I teach at NYU, here. You can also join legions of foreign lottery officials and prescription drug hawkers by writing me at seth@sethkugel.com; I don't respond to them but I'll respond to you.
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THE LATEST
MONDAY, JULY 7
Yesterday's column was about hotel bars, perfect if you're willing pay $22 a drink to have an outside shot at a view of the MoMA sculpture garden, and the previous week was about using your laptop + NYC wifi to find your way around the city.
TUESDAY, JUNE 24
Long overdue update--the last few columns:
June 22: NONMAINSTREAM SPORTS: Are You Ready for Some Gaelic Football?
June 15: COLOMBIAN CULTURE: A Fruit Shake, then Shaking to the Beat of Cumbia
June 8: The Bronx is More Than Just Yankee Stadium
The Colombian one got some press in Colombia, unsurprisingly, including this article in El Tiempo and Colombian radio networks, including W Radio and this clip from RCN.
MONDAY, JUNE 2
My column in yesterday's Times was on behind-the-scenes tours. Meanwhile, in the Southern Hemisphere, It was obviously a slow news week for the Brazilian press...you can see my appearance on the Programa do Jô last Thursday here (actually, the first nine minutes of it, but that's enough), and a cute article in Saturday's Veja, the Brazilian newsweekly, here.
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THURSDAY, MAY 22
This week's column is on Manhattan's hidden gardens, and I forgot to post last weeks, on Jewish arts in the city. Also, for anyone clicking in from Brazil, I'll be a guest on the Programa do Jô on May 27.
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MONDAY, MAY 12
The International Herald-Tribune just ran versions of both the column on music venues and the shopping article on Vila Madalena in Sao Paulo. Also, here's this weekend's appearance on NY1.
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THURSDAY, MAY 8
This week's column, about tiny spots to catch live music shows in the city, is part of the Travel section's music issue. Also, if you are among the 100% of my friends and 99% of humanity in general who missed me this morning at 6:20 on Univision, I'll be on NY1 this Sunday at 10 a.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.
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SATURDAY, MAY 3
This weekend's travel section is now online, with my too-short piece on the ever-growing, ever-quirky shopping scene in Sao Paulo's Vila Madalena neighborhood with a cool photo of Ronaldo Fraga's store by Lalo de Almeida. I had to leave some pretty good stuff out, like Japonique (selling all things Japanese) and Toc Na Cuca (a cool art and design bookstore, 100% in English), both opened in the last few months.
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THURSDAY, MAY 1
Hey, what are you doing this Saturday at 7 a.m.? If you're answer is "Nothing, let's totally get together!" then read on. If not, come back next week. This week's column is about what early risers can do in the lonely pre-brunch hours of a New York City weekend. If you're still reading, you will be among the few interested in my appearance on Channel 41/Univision's "Al Despertar" news show a week from today. I should be on sometime between 6 and 7 a.m.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24
A water tower at MoMA, Indian art at the Met, and dirt at the American Museum of Natural History in this week's Weekend in New York.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17
Europe in New York is the theme of this week's column, to correspond with the Travel section's Europe issue that comes out this weekend. There's an all new Weekend in New York video as well.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 10
It may appear that I have a new, obsessive interest in hard liquor, considering yesterday's cachaca piece and this week's column about martinis, online today. A mere coincidence of scheduling, I assure you.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
The Dining section today has my piece on aged cachaca, and a video tour of a cachaca-producing "alambique" in Brazil. Here's the version that ran in the International Herald Tribune, the Portuguese translation from UOL, and an article from BBC Brasil.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 6
Today's column: stuff to do on Madison Avenue. Next week: martinis.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 30
Catching up, here are the last three columns: there was this one on the best Irish bars in Manhattan, as picked by the Irish themselves; then, a surprising most-emailed list favorite, on tea, here. This weekend's is on flea markets.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 6
This week's column on street art is out, along with a great slideshow by Robert Caplin. Lots of new stuff on the Multimedia page: this past weekend's NY1 appearance; and old television appearances on CUNY-TV's Nueva York, the WB11 news, and Brazil's Manhattan Connection (in two parts). Even a couple radio clips.
I'm gone for a while and won't be updating. I'm sure you'll survive.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 2
Two other items of interest in the Travel section this Sunday: the Why We Travel photo and the Q&A, starring several of my knowledgeable Brazilian friends giving sage (or possibly erroneous) travel advice.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
This weekend's column about Greek New York is out here. I'll be talking about it on NY1's New York Times Close Up this weekend.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
On NY1, I put English marmite on Dominican cassava bread for perhaps the first time in culinary history. Watch here.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
The latest column is on international grocery stores, and the accompanying video is online, with some embarrassing photos of my brother and me in the late 1970s. I'm on NY1 talking about it again this weekend, Sat. at 10 pm. Sun. at 10 am.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Couple new things. First, the column, on the islands of New York City (it's part of the Travel section's cruise issue). Also, a piece from this week's Viva New York section of the Daily News, on "In The Heights" move to Broadway. (Great show, see it.) Finally, I'll be on NY1 this weekend and next, regular times, 10pm Sat, 10am Sun.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11
I talked about the museums piece on NY1 yesterday
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7: MUSEUMS
Museums after Dark: It's Party Time in the Galleries is out today; I'll be talking about it on NY1 Saturday at 10 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. Also, the folks at one of Brazil's major papers got a little lazy during Carnival and ran another piece in the "article about the New York Times's article" genre. You can read the always-amusing automatic Google English translation here.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2: ROCK AND ROLL
The column is about rock music in New York City; here's this week's Why We Travel photo.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 28: YESTERDAY ON NY1
Yesterday's appearance on NY1 with Sam Roberts, talking about the Korean column.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26: CARNIVAL OPTIONS
Also in this Sunday's Travel section: a piece on lesser-known Brazilian carnivals. Here's a Portuguese translation from Ultimo Segundo. And I forgot to mention last week's Why We Travel photo.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 24: KOREAN NEW YORK
Here's the latest column, with the accompanying video. I'll be talking about it on NY1 this Saturday at 10pm and Sunday at 10am. Also a couple new blog entries.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17: WINTER GARDENS
It's surprising pleasant to visit the city's botanical gardens during the winter, and that's even before the orchid show comes to the Bronx. Somehow I got them to use my photo, too.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 14: FAMILY BLOGGING
The septuagenarian blogosphere is abuzz: family matriarch Judy Kugel has begun chronicling her eighth decade a few weeks early at www.70-something.com. Check it out.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10: EROTIC LITERATURE
Actually, Sunday's Weekend in New York is about libraries. But the last two lines really are about erotic literature.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 8: SMALL STEP FOR WEBSITE TECHNOLOGY
A few recent NY1 appearances are now on the new multimedia page. Plus, a blog entry on the new Brazilian bakery that opened yesterday in Astoria.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3: WEEKEND IN NEW YORK -- THE TRILINGUAL VIDEO EDITION
This coming Sunday's column about NYC's many contrasts is online, and so is the latest video. Also, check out the Dominican video dubbed in Portuguese and the Atlantic Avenue video dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese by MSN's crack linguists. Wacky.
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