Premi premi premi! Siamo finalisti al concorso Faber Meeting 2011 a Torino e ai prestigiosi Lovie Awards europei! Stay tuned! ;)
Cercasi nuokers! Cerchiamo nuovi nuokers da alcune città italiane: per maggiori informazioni scrivici a touch@nuok.it!
Ravi is sitting on the sofa with a cup of coffee in his hand as I click on the television from my armchair. It’s a typical New York Sunday morning and we’re lazy. Ravi, who hails from Boston, MA via Lexington, KY via Madras, India, and therefore has a particular disdain for New York, sips [...]
:: Hi Claudia! Welcome to NUOK… First and foremost, tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do? I’ve been designing jewelry since 2002. My background in Art and Drama, and my love of architecture and nature inspire my unique pieces which combine both “hard” and “soft” elements. My [...]
I’m writing you a letter because nowadays the epistolary form seems to be the most appropriate when it comes to expressing moral outrage. Just like you, I’ve read Pier Luigi Celli’s letter in La Repubblica, encouraging his son to emigrate, to wander off into the horizon in search for a better future. Just like you, [...]
Andrew Z. Giacalone and Gianluca Rottura Last week Nuok introduced you to Gianluca Rottura, a true New Yorker and man-about-town. This week, Nuok once again approached Gianluca, owner of In Vino Veritas and author of “Wine Made Easy”, and asked him for a little favor- a list of sumptuous wines for under $15. In this [...]
:: Hi Gianluca, welcome to Nuok! Tell us a little bit about the mix of New York and Italy that defines who you are. And what is your relationship to Italy? My parents were “off the boat” (my father, literally) and they brought with them their rich cultures, which they thankfully passed onto me. There [...]
Every flâneur knows that a good walk can equal any good education; that the streets, their bends, their potholes and cobbles, the exhausting orgies between architecture and commerce and the ever-changing scents that define the boundaries of neighborhoods are pedagogical instruments just as words and algorithms are. Then, there is that certain charm about walking [...]
Once you get your Abercrombie & Fitch shopping done and your picture taken on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and you’ve completed both Uptown and Downtown Loops on the upper level of the New York Sightseeing Tour, ask yourself this: How much sex have you had in the city? And, if you managed to let yourself [...]
This is how it happened: I was lured into a Starbucks by the cool pull of its air-conditioning in a somewhat similar fashion to how an aged prostitute ensnares an unconvinced youth in her démodé brothel. Outside, it was an exhausting 90 degrees Fahrenheit with 100% humidity. Inside, it was a pleasant 70 degrees and [...]
Back before Facebook and Twitter and Starbucks and sanctimonious grad students sitting in cafés hunched over their MacBooks and even before smartphones and the ubiquity and impatience of the email there was a time when the hour between 9 am and 10 am was devoted to contemplation and coffee. In that distant realm called Romagna, [...]
Walter Miles is disconcertingly quiet for a taxi driver. African-American and in his late sixties, he remains curiously mum as we drive for two hours to Louisiana’s southernmost regions, Venice and Grand Isle. These are the areas hardest hit by the oil spill, where the Roseau cane and marshland grasses steep in BP’s molasses-like crude. [...]
