Brooklynites and longtime best friends Vanessa Li and Bowen Goh were working at “mundane office jobs,” in Li’s words – Li had worked at a queer and trans youth center and Goh had a background in film ...

It wasn’t the 1970s clichéd pickup line. It’s the 21st century now: It was the Wi-Fi password at Mood Ring, the astrology-themed bar that opened in September.

Brooklynites and longtime best friends Vanessa Li and Bowen Goh were working at “mundane office jobs,” in Li’s words – Li had worked at a queer and trans youth center and Goh had a background in film ...

A new Bushwick bar called Mood Ring is equally inspired by astrology, Hong Kong movies, and the owners’ Chinese-American heritage.

For Bowen Goh and Vanessa Li, partners in the Bushwick bar Mood Ring, that fantasy became a reality in 2022, when the platonic pair went in on a three-story Bed-Stuy town house.

We take endless inspiration from the most glamorous and chic piggy (and canonical Gemini) on the planet. As an homage, we made this elegant gin and lychee-liqueur cocktail, embellished with a ...

Cut to 40-odd years later, and we have the opposite situation: Mood rings are so kitschy that there’s a bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn, named after them, while our vocabulary for moods has become too ...