On Tuesday we toured the High Line,the public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues. En route, New York’s...
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The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo focused on whether or not a single-payer system be the goal for American health care. This week she asks: Should...
The unending wonder and dramatic precariousness of the human condition are on parade in two distinctly different shows in two distinctly different mediums: “Mary Jane,” a play starring Carrie Coon at the New York Theatre Workshop; and the sculptures and drawings of Tom Otterness’ “Tipping Point” at the Marlborough Gallery. (Coincidently, both shows...
White Snake Projects REV 23 by creator-librettist Cerise Jacobs and composer Julian Wachner premieres at Boston’s John Hancock Hall on Friday September 29 – Sunday, October 1, 2017. The new opera is the centerpiece and opening show of the first Boston New Music Festival hosted by Juventas New Music....
Because writing about connections between nature and culture has never been more urgent, join Orion Magazine and the Southern New Hampshire University Mountainview MFA Program in Creative Writing and teachers Craig Childs and Amy Irvine for an evening to benefit The Orion Scholarship for Students Writing about...
According to Dr. Shadi Hamid in his new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World, the failure of democracy to take root in the Islamic world is not about the election of Islamists. It is the sheer panic their ascent to power prompts...
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo focused on DACA and examines options to replace the act. This week, the debate is about whether or not a single-payer system be the goal...
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Recently Cleo focused on online companies asking if we should be able to deny service to individuals because they disagree...
Labor Day weekend in Telluride twins with the Telluride Film Festival. Elsewhere it is four days that mark the end of summer. Designated a holiday since 1884, Labor Day was instituted to celebrate the contributions of labor to the national welfare of the U.S. In the current climate of...
