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Apartment living ain’t easy. Especially in New York, when sometimes it seems the walls are so thin, your neighbors are having sex with you. Even more shocking is when you wake up in between them and wonder: How Did We Get Here? The answer is pretty simple: Alcohol. Yes, the easiest way to “chip the ice” with a next-door neighbor is to randomly show up, drink in hand, and ply them with whatever sizzling concoction you threw together in your bathtub. Laughter will be up, inhibitions down, and then you can slowly approach the topic that brought you over there in the first place: “Could you please stop leaving your used diaper genie bags under my welcome mat?” It works, I promise. Now, I can’t take credit for this idea. No, I actually picked this helpful tip up from hilarious comedian and friend Katina Corrao, who has been...

This season of Real Housewives of New York was basically 9 straight hours of headache, brought upon us by human Louis Vuitton garment bags that made up this season’s cast. And on last night’s Scanners sequel of a reunion, things got especially heated when the topic of children came up. Leave The Children Out Of This! seemed to be the common cry in between accusations of cheating and insanity and times and places. But why? Why leave the kids out of it when they play such a big part on the show? The kids are the one saving grace of this season, managing to be the most mature/least obnoxious cast members of them all. And who could forget that touching scene when Ramona Singer‘s sweet dorkish daughter Avery wrote an essay about the struggles her mother Ramona had to overcome. The essay was called “On Her Own,...

My friend, comedian Katina Corrao, sent along this old commercial from the early 1980s featuring the only thing I want for Christmas Every year. It’s called Mr. Microphone. Omg, this thing is ehm-eee-zeeng. It’s a Microphone that allows you to sing along with Anything. And as a classic guitarist myself (not true), this is the perfect thing to entertain my friends with as we lounge around in my non-existent backyard! Enjoy This Forever...

His performance of "Mack the Knife" concluded, Phil Cassese sat at a small table cradling a drink. "Tonight was a reminder for me of what I subject my actors to on a daily basis." By day, Cassese is a senior commercial agent working out of TalentWorks' NY office. But tonight, he's taking part in "Dream Role," a monthly series at New York's 92YTribeca. It's not a role he's comfortable with. "I've never been on a stage like that, with the lights shining and you can't see the audience. Performing [for me] always was pure torture," he says with a chuckle."Dream Role" started in July 2009 as an opportunity for actors to play roles they would normally be unable to do because of gender, race, or age. Over the ensuing months, it has evolved into the opportunity for an actor to take on any role desired, regardless of limitations or lack thereof. But...