The 9/11 Museum – Fifteen Years After Considered “a place of solemn reflection,” the 911 Museum which lies in the footprints of the North and South towers, underneath the [...]September 11, 2016
Visiting the Mighty Tower that is One World Observatory It’s magnificent. If the original Twin Towers signaled a shining hour of building greatness, the new Freedom Tower at 102 floors is a [...]September 11, 2016
The Whitney – Go Ahead and Take the Tour After about the 30th painting, my eyes were going cross-eyed, and any comprehension was questionable. Reading the artists’ notes, peering [...]August 19, 2016
Rob Thomas and Counting Crows – Ten Years Later, Bethel Woods Keeps Doing It Right Despite that it’s going to be 50 years since the infamous ’69 concert took place on the great meadow that is now Bethel Woods, the [...]August 8, 2016
Comedian Jim Gaffigan Takes the Stage as Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary Bethel Woods celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and the place looks damn good. The lawns continue to be meticulously maintained, [...]July 22, 2016
Macbeth Performed Entirely by Women at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival An extraordinary production of Macbeth is playing out this summer under the big tent at the Boscobel estate overlooking the Hudson River. [...]July 15, 2016
As You Like It and Measure for Measure at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival There’s always excitement in the air before one of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival plays take the stage. Every director over the [...]July 7, 2016
On July 4th, See How Liberty Came to Our Shores The story of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York, and the debate of the country’s immigration policies of the late 1880’s is [...]July 4, 2016