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The Curtain’s Up at eGarage:
A New Theater’s Friday Night Gala

Thursday, April 7th, 2011
by on Playing Around

“New Yorkers are jaded,” we say about ourselves – with pride, as if throwing down the gauntlet to Gotham’s performers, be it a musical, a

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Tina Sloan—Changing Shoes, Changing Lives

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
by on Woman Around Town

Actress Tina Sloan spent 26 years on the CBS daytime drama, Guiding Light, so it’s fitting that she is now proving to be a guiding

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One Life to Live—The Case for Preserving Soaps

Thursday, November 4th, 2010
by on Playing Around

There are many reasons why soap operas, those daytime dramas that once dominated afternoon television, are on life support. More working women, an explosion of

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Cast of The Good Wife Dishes at the Paley Center

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
by on Playing Around

Julianna Margulies (Alicia Florrick in CBS’s The Good Wife) was spending an afternoon in Washington Square Park. “A lovely couple came up and said, `We’re

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Diane vs. Katie: Let the Battle Begin

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
by on Playing Around

For the first time ever on Monday, December 21, two women will anchor the evening news broadcasts for two major TV networks. Three years ago,

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Sarah Palin: Going Rouge—An American Life

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
by on Reading Around

From the moment Sarah Palin, with family in tow, was plucked from the wilds of Alaska to become the Republican Party’s 2008 vice presidential running

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Woman Around Town: Nicolle Wallace—Grace in Politics

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
by on Woman Around Town

Nicolle Wallace, at age 37, has been a witness to American presidential politics in a way that most of us can only imagine. Having served

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Woman Around Town: Jill Martin—Sports with Style

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
by on Woman Around Town

Jill Martin is an Emmy-nominated reporter who wears many hats. From fashion to sports, she has taken New York by storm. Martin always dreamed about

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