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Three New Exhibitions at the Met

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

This Spring, New York’s venerable institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is offering us an array of goodies – in addition to Schaparelli/Prada — to

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Scenes from New York: On the Run

Sunday, April 29th, 2012
by Annie Sferrazza on Living Around

Over the past several years, I’ve been amazed at how much of New York I’ve discovered during my daily runs. I found some fantastic restaurants,

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Rita McMahon and The Wild Bird Fund

Monday, March 19th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Living Around

I’m sitting in a cozy, art, and oriental carpet filled Upper West Side apartment with perhaps twenty birds in various sized cat carriers, several free

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Polka Dots and Stripes, the First Spring Print Patterns

Sunday, March 11th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Dots and stripes, checks and plaids, and flowers, flowers, flowers. Spring is around the corner in a confused Central Park. Print patterns are back, often

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Woman Around Town: Jill Iscol—Her Heart’s on Fire

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Esther Cohen on Woman Around Town

Visiting Jill Iscol, in her elegant Fifth Avenue apartment, is an unexpected New York surprise. An educator, activist, foundation director and now author of a new,

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Speak Up New Yorkers and Washingtonians!
We Are Not Rude! And We Love Tourists

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around

Travel & Leisure Magazine recently ranked cities for rudeness. New York topped the list, followed by Washington at number three. Los Angeles, usually number one,

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Woman Around Town: Roberta Rucco—
Capturing the Female Form on Film

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Woman Around Town

Roberta Rucco spent this past summer on the Isle of Capri, visiting family and photographing women, specifically mothers and daughters. As we sit having coffee,

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Kevin Kline—Much Ado About an Extraordinary Actor

Saturday, December 17th, 2011
by Stephani E. D. McDow on Living Around

I was too young to understand Harold Cooper (The Big Chill) or Otto West (A Fish Called Wanda), but the hazy memory of both characters

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