We continued to forward march through the bounty that is New York's Spring offerings: more about theatre and dance. Sam Gold's Macbeth at the Longacre Theatre through July 10: Foul is no fair. Not after two years (and counting) into the Age of Corona and the divisiveness...
How to patch up the holes gauged out by life in the Age of Corona? Try art caulk. Try New York City, which is fully open for business - at least for now. In what is arguably the first book of art criticism, "The Mirror of...
She was a millionaire Bohemienne. He was a lower-middle-class prodigy. But what she said and what he said came to matter equally to those who understood (and generations later, understand) that the greatest works of art have many lives inside them. On a recent all-too-brief...
"The longevity of the Telluride AIDS Benefit rests on one simple fact: HIV/AIDS remains a critical public health issue. TAB is committed to continuing to raise awareness and inspire people to give to this cause until there are no new infections and those living with...
Did you know the Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day? Cynics insist the holiday is when men atone for their sins of omission by buying sweethearts toasters and scant silky undergarments....
Since we saw how 2021 went, do we really want to do this, again? I know. Any excuse to wear sequins. Or sequined face masks this year. Comedian John Oliver was once quoted as saying: “New Year’s Eve is like the death of a pet....
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you...
Some of the seasonal cards I received this year – flinching as I say "I," not "we" – came with synopses of the past year, most of them, as is the way of holiday notes, describing victories and achievements of the sender and family. I...
Truth is every year we bring something to the holidays besides a long gift list (and too little time). Packed in the back of our closets alongside the battered tinsel star, the good silver, and great grandma’s dishes lie our memories –for better or for...
The winter solstice is not the full day of December 21. Rather it occurs at a specific time, at the point the sun is shining farthest to the south, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. Of course, the sun is not actually moving; the...
