A New York Minute
Merrily Kerr — art writer, tour guide and intrepid Manhattanite — led 20 of us on a whirlwind (and very snowy) tour of top Chelsea art galleries a few weeks ago. It's part of her amazingly focused, insider New York Art Tours, which she likes to call "the fastest...
Lagunitas @ Red
Brew-heads might want to make plans to spend next Thursday, March 8 upstairs at Red, in the old Santa Cruz Hotel. Food prepared by 515 and Red chefs, Caleb Hanscom and Erin Danielson will be paired with four selected beers from Lagunitas Brewing. Beer lovers always...
Le Bernardin: Is it the best restaurant in America?
In a word, "yes." But I already knew that, having been lucky enough to dine in the original Paris version of Le Bernardin, as well as the Manhattan one twice before. Perhaps only Jules Verne has done more for seafood than Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert. But then the...
New York for Foodies
Manhattan - where the national color is black and the diversity is abundant. You can tell the tourists immediately - they are not wearing black, and they aren't wearing one of those big, cashmere mufflers that are required in the City. In an effort to stretch my...
Saul Landau: Filmmaker provocateur
We Don’t Play Golf Here, a half-hour documentary film by prolific political auteur Saul Landau, screens at 4pm this Wednesday, February 28, at UCSC’s Conference Room D, Bay Tree Building. Come meet the filmmaker, watch the new film and listen to some choice...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.