"I think the reason gin is so popular right now is because it's so different. You've got junpiery harsh intense gins, and on the other side aromatic beautiful soft feminine ones. That means you can you can do many different things."

"When you're building a cocktail, my general rule is a 2:1:1 ratio. 2 parts alcohol, 1 part sweetening agent and 1 part citrus or acid."

--Krissy Harris, co-owner of The Wren on In the Drink

"I worked in the magazine industry at a time when so many big publications were folding. Clearly people were buying things that were being written about in the magazines, but the magazines themselves weren't seeing enough ad revenue to be kept up. I thought why not break down that publisher/editor wall and just sell the things we were writing about and write about the things we really believe in." --Erica Cerulo of Of a Kind on After the Jump"

The future of arts management is about taking the internet and leveraging it to disrupt the systems that have been in place forever and giving artists the opportunity to market and produce their work without having to go through this gallery system that is very closed and insular." --Claire Mazur of Of a Kind on After the Jump