Latest in our series on the neighborhoods of New York City. The last ones profiled were East Chelsea and Windsor Knot.
If the crayon-yellow Brooklyn Children’s Museum doesn’t take you back to the golden days of popsicles, playgrounds and finger-painting, we’re not sure what will.
The surrounding Brooklyn neighborhood of Childhood is the ideal place for families priced out of snootier Park Slope and Kensington. Read More
The latest in our series on the neighborhoods of New York City. Previously, Hell’s Foyer.
A model who lives in Tribeca scoffed when we asked what he thought about Venice, Manhattan. “Venice? I don’t think so,” said Anderson Ribeiro, 31. “It’s so dirty, and there are all kinds of people selling a slew Read More
F. Murray Abraham’s performance as Shylock for Theatre for a New Audience touches greatness in every aspect of an immensely challenging role. The magnificent veteran actor inhabits Shylock’s soul in ways that had me riveted.
The key that Mr. Abraham has unlocked is Shylock’s humanity. Yet he does so without a trace of the Read More
FRANCESCA: B and I went down to Venice Beach today, about a mile from where we live, to film our wedding favors. No, we are not handing out DVD documentaries of ourselves.
We’re turning a 15 second video of us into palm-of-your hand flipbook giveaways. It just so happens that this is Read More
ERICA: We just got back from a meeting with our travel agent Joan from Valerie Wilson, and I’m walking on cloud nine. FINALLY, a wedding planning task that does not completely suck.
To sum it up, Joan rocks…and she rocks hard. Before we even sealed the deal with her, she sent us over a Read More
The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, isn’t exactly part of the show; it’s in the accompanying catalog. Opposite the title page is a detail from a canvas you’ll find in the museum proper, Read More
The finest bit of painting featured in Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, an exhibition devoted to Paolo Veronese on display at the Frick Collection, isn’t exactly part of the show; it’s in the accompanying catalog. Opposite the title page is a detail from a canvas you’ll find in the museum proper, Read More
“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and not Read More
“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and Read More
The other night, I was looking over the menu in a fashionable Lower East Side restaurant. “Do you recommend the cod or the trout?” I asked the waiter.
“The cod’s good,” he replied. “But the trout is more challenging.”
Challenging! The waiter might as well have slapped me across the face with his napkin. Of Read More
