Five Great Flicks Featuring Con Artists April Fool’s Day is upon us where we all get free reign to play pranks on one another and lie with impunity. In the spirit of this [...] March 31, 2017
Poet’s Corner – Times Seven The morning’s light convinces the leaf on the top of the tallest tree to stir and unfurl, a green page opening to the beginning. [...] March 31, 2017
Chess Match No. 5 I do not want a sound to pretend that it’s a bucket or that it’s a president or that it’s in love with another sound, I just want it [...] March 29, 2017
Dots Before Our Eyes Curiously Polka Dots only appear in warmer seasons. Here then some of the first dresses, classically in navy/white or black/white with a [...] March 29, 2017
Unforgettable – Thos Shipley Tips His Hat to Nat King Cole Thos Shipley presented a tribute to Nat King Cole Saturday evening, March 25, at the Metropolitan Room to a sold out audience, both vocal [...] March 28, 2017
From Washington to Obama – “America’s Presidents” at the National Portrait Gallery When the National Portrait Gallery scheduled an extensive renovation of the museum’s “America’s Presidents,” the exhibition briefly [...] March 27, 2017
Street Seens: Hyphens Should Unite not Divide One week ago, on a Saint Patrick’s Day spent here in the Manhattan of my adulthood, the urban village in New York City where we regularly [...] March 26, 2017
Men in Uniform – and Why we Find Them Attractive It’s no secret that a lot of women fancy men in uniform. However, it’s not quite clear for everyone why that is, and what is driving [...] March 25, 2017