It was Friday evening and I was on my way home from work. Not long after I settled into a seat on the 2-train to Brooklyn, the loud voice of a child began: “EXCUSE-ME-LADIES-AND-GENTLEMEN. SORRY-FOR-THE-INTERRUPTION. BUT-MAY-I-HAVE-YOUR-ATTENTION-PLEASE.” If you’ve ridden the NYC subway at all, I’m sure you know what’s coming next. This particular announcement is …
Category: New York City
Essential New York: Arts & Entertainment
To continue the Essential New York series, this post focuses on all those crazy arts and entertainment experiences that make life worth living in New York City. Actually, this compilation reads more like a list of essential performance spaces, but without further adieu… See a show at the Apollo.* Outdoor oncerts at Summer Stage, River2River, …
Essential New York: Food
The only thing New Yorkers love to do more than complain is talk about how great living here is. (You’ll be glad to know that this post focuses on the latter.) The thing about New York is that there is ALWAYS something going on that’s cooler than anything you’ve done before. So, New Yorkers become …
Adele Bloch-Bauer I
At a visit this afternoon to the Neue Galerie, I was stunned by how beautiful Gustav Klimt’s painting Adele Bloch-Bauer I is in person. I am a Klimt fan, but I don’t think a painting has ever taken my breath away like this one. Prints simply don’t do the shimmering three-dimensional painting justice. If you’re …