Botanical Gardens that is. If, like me, you have never been to the NYBG’s Holiday Train Show, don’t let another decade go by. We went and what a delight it is. Interested and informed by a fine PBS documentary, The Treasures of New York, we were eager to experience what has become another of New…
The wondrous TDF–to which all retirees 62 years and over have access–has done it again. In addition to half-price Broadway, concert, dance and jazz tickets, this site offers a long list of Off-Off-Broadway productions for $9 each. Here are some of their offers: For Tom Stoppard fans, you can see Dogg’s Hamlet; Cahoot’s Macbeth at…
Is tragedy intrinsically a higher art form than comedy? I know we’ve all been awake at night wondering about this. Really, all my life, but especially since retirement, I notice that I want to laugh more and that I try hard to avoid tragedy in movies, theater and yes, sometimes even in music–(I really hate…
If you are one of those who enjoys winter–more power to you. The rest of us get through it, sometimes welcoming it, sometimes detesting it. As a California transplant whose husband never tires of telling me that New York has a moderate climate, not to be compared with Chicago or Boston in the winter, I…
The handwriting on the walls of Belshazzar’s Palace was interpreted by Daniel as “you have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting,” and that Belshazzar’s kingdom would be divided and given to the Medes and Persians (Dan. v. 1-28).” (Jewish Encyclopedia) Robert Indiana’s work at the Whitney Show effectively highlights…
