Woman Around Town

Founded by CEO Sarah E. Kaplan, VUE by SEK is a handcrafted jewelry line made in the U.S. Sarah’s love of art began with an internship at [...]

Some of our readers have noticed that, from time to time, we have posted articles on Woman Around Town that are by Contributed in [...]

“His name is Odie, the young woman tells us as we jog back to herhouse. And he is very old. Black all over except for gray on his [...]

Lynn Rosen just completed her “virtual” play The Catastrophe Committee, commissioned for UC Santa Barbara’s nine graduating BFAs, [...]

New Executive Director, Eileen Minogue, Keeps Getting Books Into Children’s Hands   When Amy Zaslansky needed a new executive [...]

Click to read Part I. In the mid 1960s, Carmen Dell’Orefice met architect, Richard Kaplan. “I married two Richards so it was easier [...]

This profile was created after several, lengthy, in person conversations with Carmen in her cozy living room some years ago. She was [...]

Last December, a dear friend gifted me a copy of Moshin Hamid’s exquisite Exit West, a dystopian tale of two refugees who escape the [...]