In 1970, Ken Kunken was a junior at Cornell University majoring in engineering. As a member of Cornell’s lightweight football team, players weighing 154 pounds or less, Ken had missed the first two games, once…
In 2000, my husband and I tucked away our paper maps and instead relied on a GPS device, a Garmin, that sat on our dashboard. We became accustomed to the female voice that gave us…
In Andrew J. Graff’s True North, the raging river in Wisconsin’s Northwoods also serves as a metaphor for Sami and Swami Brecht’s marriage. After Sami inherits the Woodchuck Rafting Company from his eccentric uncle, Chip,…
Imani Nichols is a Grammy-winning pop star, but she’s making far less than she could after a deal she signed as a teenager with her then husband, Shaky. Because she handed over ownership for her…
Advance praise for Matthew Blake’s novel, Anna O, set the bar very high. A bidding war broke out among publishers with Harper Collins finally winning the rights. The novel then went on to sell rights…
With war raging on two continents, our own country divided in the run up to the 2024 election, is it possible to find peace on earth, let alone in our own lives? As we celebrate…
On Sunday, December 10, The Young People’s Chorus began its holiday concert, “A Very Merry New York,” with 600 choristers on stage in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. With the lights turned down and each…
When Derek Jeter was helping the New York Yankees win World Series as the team’s star shortstop, his go-to meal was chicken parmigiana, or to foodies, chicken parm. He had favorite places for consuming his…
