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…
If you haven’t been downtown recently to see what’s happening, take a ride on the east or west side train to Broadway and Fulton to see the Handel Project–continuing this Wednesday with Act II and the following week with Act III of Handel’s Jephtha at St. Paul’s Chapel. (ny-pictures.com) After that, they will perform all…
Many others have pointed out Trump’s odd choice of the term “America First” before me, but I will just remind everyone that its most well-known use was by the anti-Semitic Charles Lindbergh to argue that America should stay out of a war that he saw as promoted by the Jews, the British and Roosevelt. The…
When we went to see “The Skin of Our Teeth” at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn (tfana), (tfana) written in 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor, we were wondering how it would stand up. We soon found out. “Skin” tells the story of Mr and Mrs Antrobus who have been married 5,000 years…
