I am in a major first romance. I am 36 years old: a stock-taking point in life. A point at which you begin to understand the broad contours of the things you will and will not have: the career as it has taken shape, the dreams as they have fallen away, the places you have visited but will probably never see again. Via The Farmer General, read more
Category Archives: Around Town
Farewell To Newsweek
You saw the flower arrangements. You ate steak. And you couldn’t help but look out over the cool, dark expanse of Central Park and the fading sparkle of north Manhattan. Via Gawker, read more
What’s That Tinny Sound?
Is a Broadway musical always best served by live performers, or do some productions have a particular artistic vision that, for better or worse, excludes a formal strings section? Via WQXR, read more
Behold: The Tartan of NYC
“It resonates with America because the Declaration of Arbroath was used as a kind of foundation for America’s Declaration of Independence,” said Margaret Kennedy, president of the National Tartan Day New York Committee. Via WNYC, read more
Zoo Snake a Twitter Star
On Monday, the Zoo closed its Reptile House. Via WNYC, read more
A Chestnut Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“I’d love to see someday that we get the nuts from this and we go over to the green market in Grand Army Plaza. We’d set up a table and say, ‘This is what the American chestnut is like.'” Via WNYC, read more
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: 100 Years
New York’s landmark industrial disaster killed 146 of the factory’s 500 employees, most of them young immigrant women and girls of Italian and European Jewish descent. Via WNYC, read more
“I want to play Mimi”
“That’s, that’s great,” Knox halted him. “Thanks for coming in, thank you. Good to hear you.” Outside the studio, the line streamed and forked into various rooms as would-be Rent cast members were rapidly eliminated. Via WNYC, read more
Rare Balkan Treats at La MaMa
“It’s really difficult to see this kind of theater here,” said Elisabeth Vincentelli, theater critic for the New York Post. “A lot of it has a strong emphasis on the body and can be pretty punishing.” Via WNYC, read more
100 Years of Tennessee Williams
“He clutched a curtain and flung it back and went away, finally. I thought that was very brave of him, but not wise.” Via WNYC, read more
