Times Square Chronicles (T2C)

Cenk Demircan is an entrepreneur, author, and business strategist who thrives at the intersection of innovation and efficiency. As the founder of Elite Coaching Circle, he has guided countless entrepreneurs toward success, blending mindset, strategy, and execution. His latest venture, Fire Your Employees, challenges traditional business models by leveraging AI and automation to streamline operations and maximize growth.

Every night in September, just before midnight, Times Square will abandon reality for three minutes. For September's Midnight Moment, artist duo LIZN'BOW transforms the district's monumental digital screens into Niñalandia, a wildly saturated alternative universe where flying grandmothers, unicorn cows and islands made of money replace the considerably less charming anxieties of the present.

New Yorkers have been looking up lately. From renewed fascination with Artemis to Hollywood's continuing obsession with what waits beyond our atmosphere, space is once again capturing the imagination. Now you don't need a rocket-or a NASA badge-to get considerably closer. Space Explorers: The ISS Experience has landed in New York, bringing a remarkable free-roaming virtual reality journey aboard the International Space Station to Eclipso at 555 West 57th Street.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined supporters in Hollywood for Mekdela Global Outreach Foundation's all-white Cufflinks and Pearls charity gala, an evening centered on elegance, compassion, and support for children and families in Gonda, Ethiopia. H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe the Hollywood Host and actor introduced amazing founder and CEO Dr. Azeb and the legendary LA Mayor who loves to support children.

If you are a regular reader of mine you know that Eda and I will follow gifted talent wherever they are. Meet Hershey Felder. If you are an avid theater goer in NYC you'll be aware he just completed a lengthy sold out run at 59E59 Street Theaters with a show he called The Piano And Me. This show was sublime in every sense of the word and the reason we went was because Billy Stritch told us about him as he had just returned from performing in Teatro Niccolini, Hershey's theatre in Florence, Italy.

Princess Antonia Schaumburg-Lippe brings Life of Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe to contemporary listeners through Apple Books and Ad Astra Grand Classics Audiobooks, giving a landmark literary life a polished new voice for the digital age.

As I prepare to see more films than I can possibly imagine over the three weeks of TIFF51, I decided to take myself to Christopher Nolan's colossal cinematic voyage, "". I can't say that I was particularly frothing at the mouth to see this film, but from all the social and critical conversation about it since it arrived, calling the film a masterpiece while also fueling racist commentary that is as disturbing as ever, my curiosity got the better of me.

September arrives with the U.S. Open in full swing at Flushing Meadows, followed almost immediately by Fashion Week, Broadway Week, major art fairs, Harry Styles taking over Madison Square Garden, the Feast of San Gennaro and the first real surge of New York's fall cultural season. Summer isn't quite gone, but the city is already moving at full speed again.

I Play Rocky TIFF Thursday, when tickets went on sale, I sat down with my carefully constructed festival calendar and started turning intentions into actual seats. It was a feverish exercise, as numerous films were sold out before I even had the chance to look at the seating chart.

Cenk Demircan is an entrepreneur, author, and business strategist who thrives at the intersection of innovation and efficiency. As the founder of Elite Coaching Circle, he has guided countless entrepreneurs toward success, blending mindset, strategy, and execution. His latest venture, Fire Your Employees, challenges traditional business models by leveraging AI and automation to streamline operations and maximize growth.