“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
Category Archives: Around Town
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
A Feast of Orchids at New York Botanical Garden
“We wanted to create that bubbling excitement people get, the grand spectacle that you know awaits you when you visit the theater,” commented Marc Hachadourian, the garden’s curator for orchids. Via WNYC, read more
My Whole Friday Night, For This. For This.
Katiria Toro cradled Precious Princess in her arms all night. “This is gala wear,” Toro said of the teacup Chihuahua’s satin dress. “Most people call this one the ‘Red Carpet’ dress.” Via WNYC, read more
Walking Among Giants
In the frigid air of the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Julian Velasco kept his hands in his pockets, slouched a little and even maintained a few feet of distance from the flourishing bonsai trees around him. Via WNYC, read more
Chinese Food Writers Celebrate the New Year
February 6, 2011— “The men of the household were cooking over a wood-fired range, as about two dozen people milled around, eating and drinking and warming themselves at the open hearth in the kitchen.” Via WNYC, read more
Stevie Wonder Enters the Apollo Hall of Fame
February 3, 2011—”Stevie has over half a century of music production that’s really been, in some respects, a major part of the African-American soundtrack for the 20th century,” said Howard Dodson, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Via WNYC, read more
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