Dozens of college admissions success stories flood the pages of ivywise.com, and it’s no surprise why. This year, 92 percent of IvyWise students were accepted into one or more of their top three choice universities. The leading Manhattan-based educational consulting firm offers a range of services—tutoring and test preparation, ... More

What happens when Ferris Bueller and Star Trek’s Carol are delayed at an Albuquerque airport during a layover? A Dirty Weekend, of course. The comedy, which gets its name from British slang meaning when two (usually) unmarried people escape for a debaucherous weekend, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and hits ... More

When the singer ZZ Ward started working on her latest EP, Love and War, she had nearly half of the songs for the record written. But by the time the 29-year-old chanteuse finished making the album, she says, “I had evolved my sound, keeping it fresh and doing something ... More

The new TNT series Public Morals takes a beloved topic—1960s Manhattan mob culture—and gives it a breath of fresh air, thanks in no small part to creator (and writer and star) Edward Burns and his cadre of confidants, including executive producer Steven Spielberg. Another deciding factor in making the drama ... More

There’s a thing that people say about certain actors who play a certain kind of character. They say, “I love that guy! I feel like he’s totally the same person in real life.” Which is to say he’s someone they would want to have more than one beer with, because ... More

For anyone subject to nostalgia for grittier times, there’s no one quite like the Culture Club to remind us that there was a time when weird was hot before everyone else decided it was. Boy George was a definitive icon for the gay community in the ‘80s, and his much-loved ... More

Whit Stillman’s 1990 film Metropolitan is the sort of movie that, even in its third decade, can serve as shorthand to describe a certain type of someone. In fact, it can seem at times that when it comes to quirky, privileged WASPs, Stillman invented that certain type of someone. So it’s no surprise that ... More

In her latest novel, Circling the Sun, author Paula McLain—who wrote the 2011 bestseller The Paris Wife—tells the story of the 20th-century adventurer Beryl Markham, the British-born aviator who was the first ever woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean east-to-west. The fictionalized version of Markham’s story tells of her ... More

The ever-turning time machine of fashion seems to have landed on the ‘90s this summer, and if you spent the last decade or so missing chokers, feathered bangs and platform sandals, your wildest dreams have been granted. Perhaps nothing could quite prove that the decade has once again descended upon us in ... More

When your friend asks you to create a film score, you do it—and when that same film falls through, you take that music and create your own self-titled EP. At least that’s what happened for Alberta Cross lead singer Petter Ericson Stakee and Jamie Biden, the longtime friends who ... More