Ok, well maybe we didn’t go there for the salads but they were really really good. As we walked up Broadway, we noticed that the Sugar Factory had replaced our much-loved Ollie’s in the rear of the public space just between 66th and 67th. It’s a bit of misnomer because although the front is just…
In the rain, Rory and I hiked over to our nearby Community Free Democrats meeting for the group’s endorsements and learned a lot about our local candidates and the folks who support them.(tweetcs.com) If you remember, Tip O’Neill said “all politics is local,” and here you see it on its most basic level. Yes, we…
Always, but especially today, I am proud to call myself an American. (Larry Zack Wildlife Art) I had begun to doubt whether the country would continue to allow someone to hold the White House who denigrated women and disabled people, who cared not about the environment, and who insulted our allies and our heroes. How…
For weeks now, I have hesitated to see this movie, not because I didn’t think it would be good, but because I knew it would be very good and I wouldn’t be able to get through it for crying. So I waited, read the reviews, and learned about the plot. Finally, I thought I was…
Some of you have complained about not getting a heads-up in time to catch the great musicals in the Encores! series, so here it is. The Golden Apple by Jerome Moross and John Latouche, is a brilliant, funny and most of all beautiful musical from 1954. Still timely–it’s based (very very loosely) on Homer’s Iliad…
Well, that would make no sense, would it, in a blog that’s supposed to be about going first class at a discount. Yet, it happened. Rory and I recently celebrated our 50th and one of our cousins was kind enough to send us a gift to be used at any New York restaurant. At the…
If you have never been to one of the People’s Symphony Concerts at Washington Irving High School, a New York icon, it’s time you did. Originally designed for students and workers in 1900, many of our friends and relatives have attended for decades. Today, it’s still fulfilling its function. (sidewaysnyc) The best of the best…
