A review of the best things to enjoy in New York City.
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…
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…
(chgeharvard.org) Or Oscar the Grouch? (muppetwiki.com) or the Met Museum’s Temple of Dendur? (citypass.com) or the Florida Everglades?(pinterest.com) or the California sea lions? or Old Faithful? (tripadvisor) or Half Dome?(yosemiteconservancy.org) programs that support Meals on Wheels? clean air?clean water? science and climate change? (dailysciencejournal) We take these programs for granted now but DJT has a…
You still have tonight, tomorrow and Sunday to see Cole Porter’s 1930 show, “The New Yorkers,” at City Center, part of the Encores presentations. You should not miss this show; beg, borrow or steal to get there. First, the songs. Some were already in there–some were added from other Porter shows, but you won’t complain.…
On a cold snowy day in March, in our search to find a film that was low on violence and high on happy values, we came upon “Beauty and the Beast,” and so, may I add, did a lot of other folks. (digitalspy.com) This is a wildly over- produced live action-plus-animation addition to the Disney…
