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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,
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets Brought to Life By Stephen Dillane and the Miro Quartet
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
by Nico Rosario on Playing Around
Four Quartets, considered T.S. Eliot’s last great masterpiece, captures the poet’s eternally internal debate with the cosmos about time and spirituality, themes that Beethoven also
Desdemona—Peter Sellars’ retelling of Othello
Monday, November 14th, 2011
by Nico Rosario on Playing Around
“My name is Desdemona. The word, Desdemona, means misery. It means ill-fated. It means doomed.” And so begins the intimate exchange between specters and spectators
The Big Apple Circus Presents Dream Big
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
It would’ve been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. Samuel West The six
The Music of Eating at Lincoln Center
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
by Esther Cohen on Dining Around
A few years ago Lincoln Center reinvented itself, moving from the big blocky music buildings to an open, freer, more exciting space. This renovation began
Heirlooms by Tom Herman
Monday, September 19th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
Tom Herman’s third grade art teacher instilled in him the idea that piece of art should look as good from 1” away as from 1’
Introducing Emily Bergl
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Sitting with Emily Bergl in the Oak Room Supper Club at The Algonquin Hotel where she’ll open September 30, I look around at the tables
Magical “Mostly Mozart”
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around
The first thing you notice is that the Mostly Mozart Festival draws a younger, hipper crowd than what is usually seen at the awe inspiring
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