NYC, a few choice meals

NYC, a few choice meals

Living large isn't really a choice in Manhattan—it's the law! Especially where food is concerned. From the reliable Pain Quotidien to the Michelin-starred Modern—with bagels, macchiati, gelato, and a few memorable cocktails in between—we sampled with gusto last week...

The Band’s Visit

The Band’s Visit

As distinct as night and day are the electrifying Hamilton, and the bittersweet The Band's Visit. Both deservedly showered with Tony awards, and utterly compelling in utterly different ways. How could the sweet, short, and succinct tale of a hapless Egyptian band,...

Hamilton on Broadway

Hamilton on Broadway

I went to New York for business, and what I found was pleasure. Exhibitions, food, people, theater, Central Park, bagels, Saks, espresso—everything won me over. And that includes the antics happening on Times Square far below my hotel window on the 40th floor. Three...

A Timeless “Our Town”

A Timeless “Our Town”

American playwright Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for his finely-tuned masterpiece, Our Town. First produced in 1938—on a stage completely bare save for some chairs, two tables, and two ladders—it reveals the gritty, glorious, fuzzy reality of what Edmund...

A few words about 3 Billboards

A few words about 3 Billboards

Frances McDormand is certainly one of our finest actors. She is incapable of a mediocre or thoughtless performance. And in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri she delivers with both barrels, an apt metaphor given the violence of the film. However, she was better...

Inside the Flame

the rituals, discoveries, and treasured sensory memories that make our home in the world

A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.

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