2010: Top 10 Cities for Single Women

What makes a city a best place to live for single women?
This year, SingleMindedWomen.com analyzed major U.S. cities, with an emphasis on the criteria readers tell us are most important to them: employment opportunities; cost of living; access to travel; entertainment options; social opportunities; ratio of women to men; singles population; and healthy lifestyle, along [...]

One Night in New York: Peace, Quiet and Cupcakes

There’s more to New York than the top of the Empire State Building and Times Square. While both are iconic stops essential to any first trip to the Big Apple, New York is more than bright lights and a big city. New York is a symbol of strength. It represents independence, freedom, sexuality, sensuality and [...]

Visiting in NYC: A Perfect Place for Single Moms to Bring the Family

New York is more than Manolo’s and martini bars, and expands past Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Center. While single women converge in New York for a galavanting good time, there’s a kid-friendly side to the city that will wow the kids for weeks. 
The “Big, Big City,” is full of excitement, with sights and sounds better than any [...]

C is for Cookie

Introduce me to a single woman who doesn’t enjoy a home-baked cookie and I’ll introduce her to Tina Casaceli, owner of Milk & Cookies Bakery in New York.
Tina Casaceli grew up in Rochester, New York, in a food focused family. She learned to make Italian cookies and desserts from her grandmother and worked alongside her [...]

Southern Hospitality Does a Single Woman Good

What do Justin Timberlake and single women have in common? They both know how to bring sexy back, and make their way around a kitchen.
Justin Timberlake is more than just a pop star. The boy band sensation turned entrepreneur opened his first New York City restaurant Southern Hospitality with friends Etyan Sugarman and Trace Ayala [...]

Modern Drama: Cocktails and Cheese are the New Trend

Forget the wine. Cocktails are the new best friend of the cheese family this season. Daniel Utano, Cheese Manager and Fromage at Bar Artisanal is here to help you figure out just what curd goes with your cocktail.
It’s possible your friends have already had every wine and cheese pairing you can throw at them and [...]

Where to Have an Affair in New York City

There’s an opening scene in the Peter Jackson film, King Kong where the camera pans across Central Park and you see this big skyscraper with a sign that says, “Essex House.”

The time was the 1930’s and the Essex House sign was already an icon on the New York City skyline (it was built in 1931). [...]

A Day for Jack Daniels: The Stock Market Dropped nearly 800 points

My fascination with the art of marketing began when I was a kid growing up in New York City.

I loved how stores and street merchants would put out umbrellas on a stormy day. Rainy days meant no outside recess at school, lousy traffic, and adults in bad moods. But I took comfort in knowing that [...]

George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words Live On…

George Carlin was unique in the sense that he could insult you, insult the Catholic faith into which he was born, take a swipe at all creatures large and small—
And you loved him all the more for it.
The comedian, who died on Sunday, was a strange mix of humor and pain. They lived side by [...]

Will Barack Obama Break Through?

Yes, it’s historic that Barack Obama will be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. But in truth. only his winning in November will make a lasting mark in American history. Without that, Obama will be a footnote. rather than an actual turning point.
We all know that many of our fellow citizens who are African [...]