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Woman Around Town: Deborah Koenigsberger—Heart of Gold
Music can stir our emotions and push us to act. Just ask Deborah Koenigsberger. A huge Stevie Wonder fan, she attended all seven of his concerts at Radio City Music Hall in 1995. The lyrics of one song...
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Woman Around Town: Megan Boyle—Improv Comedy Goes Viral
“I’ll never tire of making people laugh!” Megan Boyle Move over The People Improvisation Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade! Megan Boyle, a rising star of the New York Improv scene is taking the...
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Moneyball—Buying Nearly the Best for Less
It’s perhaps fitting that Moneyball hit theaters the same week that the New York Yankees clinched the American League East. Once tagged by the rival Boston Red Sox as “The Evil Empire,” critics are...
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Woman Around Town: Jill Iscol—Her Heart’s on Fire
Visiting Jill Iscol, in her elegant Fifth Avenue apartment, is an unexpected New York surprise. An educator, activist, foundation director and now author of a new, unusual and truly inspiring book,...
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Books on Bargains, Bunheads, Booze, Basil, and Broccoli
I love non-fiction books. They’re written with care about every subject imaginable, and there’s no end to what we can learn from them. Anyone who doesn’t like Lara Spencer would kick a puppy. She’s...
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Fringe Festival Previews Promising Plays
Now in its sixteenth year, the New York International Fringe Festival offers avid theatergoers a chance to see some of the world’s best emerging theater troupes and dance companies perform their pieces...
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From the Whiffenpoofs at Yale, to Hair on Broadway;Multi-Talented Andy...
One might call Andy Sandberg, the Tony Award-winning producer of Hair (2009 revival) and star in the upcoming Scarlett Fever, a Renaissance Man of the theater. I recently had the chance to meet with...
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Woman Around Town: Amity Shlaes Pays Homage to a “Forgotten” President
Until recently, Amity Shlaes, the author and columnist, was probably best known for her 2007 book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. But with the February publication of her...
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Two Perspectives on the College Process
Each fall high school seniors are faced with a dual challenge: turning in a stellar year and mapping out the best plan for applying to colleges. I understand. In 1986 as a high school senior I faced...
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Jill Eikenberry – Wife, Mother, Actress, Survivor
Jill Eikenberry, whom many of you remember fondly as Ann Kelsey in the iconic television series, L.A. Law (1986-1994), was looking forward to a quiet Autumn in her new Connecticut home. She would...
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Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness
It’s a bittersweet experience reading Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness. In the emotional introduction written by Anne Fadiman, one of Marina’s professors at Yale, we learn that Marina died in...
View ArticleMy Career Choice: Ari Laura Kreith – Artistic Director, Theatre 167
As artistic director for Theatre 167, Ari Laura Kreith has been very busy. She conceived and directed The Jackson Heights Trilogy — 167 Tongues, You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase, and Jackson...
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What’s In a Name?Paul Rand’s Graphic Design
“Everything is Design,” the title of a lively exhibition at the Museum of the City New York, is a play on a quote by the Modernist Paul Rand (1914-1996) who said “design is everything,” an idea...
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Jill Kargman’s Odd Mom Out – Summer Guilty Pleasure
Jill Kargman’s Momzilla was a brilliant send up of Manhattan’s one-percenters, those uber wealthy Upper East Siders who manage to turn everything involving their children, homes, husbands, and...
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Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael Schulman – A Live Introduction
Author Michael Schulman, a contributor and arts editor for The New Yorker, became particularly intrigued with Meryl Streep because of her self-effacing acceptance speeches. How, he thought, can the...
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From Washington to Obama –“America’s Presidents” at the National Portrait...
When the National Portrait Gallery scheduled an extensive renovation of the museum’s “America’s Presidents,” the exhibition briefly closed from February 26 through March 23. A temporary exhibition has...
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Harvey Granat – The Music & Lyrics of Cole Porter
Today, vocalist, raconteur Harvey Granat’s Y Series (Songs and Stories) continues with a salute to the incomparable Cole Porter. Who better to shed light on the life and work of this extraordinary...
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Jill Eikenberry – Wife, Mother, Actress, Survivor
Jill Eikenberry, whom many of you remember fondly as Ann Kelsey in the iconic television series, L.A. Law (1986-1994), was looking forward to a quiet Autumn in her new Connecticut home. She would...
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Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness
It’s a bittersweet experience reading Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness. In the emotional introduction written by Anne Fadiman, one of Marina’s professors at Yale, we learn that Marina died in...
View ArticleMy Career Choice: Ari Laura Kreith – Artistic Director, Theatre 167
As artistic director for Theatre 167, Ari Laura Kreith has been very busy. She conceived and directed The Jackson Heights Trilogy — 167 Tongues, You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase, and Jackson...
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