Levitating Lavender Candle

Brooklyn-based shop Species By the Thousands offers everything from original illustrated greeting cards to alchemy-inspired jewelry—not to mention a collection of scented soy wax candles. The unique labels for each of their different candles make it hard to choose just one but Levitating Lavender, with hints of rosemary, is a particularly excellent pick for illuminating the bedroom after hours.

The Splendid Spoon at Fashion Week

Bowls of healthy soup on demand from the creators of a wholesome cleanse

While the presentations last week at Lincoln Center stimulated many senses, they didn’t tackle taste buds. However, Brooklyn’s The Splendid Spoon did—by way of an on-demand courier service delivering soups straight to attendees who ordered via tweet, Instagram or email. The social experience was easy, fun and rather tasty—but as founder Nicole Chaszar explains, “It was a good way to get healthy, wholesome soup into …

Singularity&Co’s Campaign to Save Sci Fi

The far-out bookstore and publishing fixture works to resurrect vintage and out-of-print 20th century pulp

Brooklyn-based bookstore and publishing fixture Singularity&Co has expanded its commitment to rescuing pulp fiction from the past with a Kickstarter campaign called Save the Sci Fi: The Next Generation. In the campaign to resurrect rare, forgotten and out-of-print vintage science fiction, a novel will be resurrected monthly and offered as an ebook to subscribers and backers who pledge $25 or more. The current Kickstarter campaign …