Up on the Met’s Roof: Icon of American Culture By British Artist Leave it to a British artist, the ebullient Cornelia Parker, to create and install on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof an [...] April 20, 2016
Catherine Russell: Sunny Side of the Street Catherine Russell’s latest concert for Jazz at Lincoln Center was apparently “thirty years in the making.” Both a celebration of [...] April 20, 2016
Everything’s Coming Up Ethel -The Ethel Merman Songbook Queens born Ethel Merman (1908-1984) sang publicly from the age of nine. Completing school, determined to forge a show business career, she [...] April 20, 2016
The Father – Rage Against the Dying of The Light* Already broadly celebrated in Paris and London, Florian Zeller’s 2012 “tragic Farce” (the playwright’s term) places us squarely in [...] April 19, 2016
More Earth Day Films It’s no secret 2016, is shaping up to be a very…ahem…exciting election season. Besides such issues of income inequality, the Supreme [...] April 19, 2016
Like Money in the Bank and Other Stories Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little—Edna Ferber The dichotomy of Like Money in the Bank lies in the fact that though [...] April 19, 2016
More Earth Day Reading Material With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd, a lot of us are thinking more about the state of the planet. Indeed some people have even gone so [...] April 18, 2016
The New American Dreamer: STOP Before You START Are you discouraged with the progress of your career? Perhaps what you are doing now is not the career path you had hoped you would follow. [...] April 18, 2016