Photo via Amazon.com A Month of Theatrical Memories If you are interested in how directors, actors, and writers work their magic on stage, this is your lucky month. A quartet... News 09 Feb 2021 | 12:08
Photo via Amazon.com A Book About Murder, Mystery and So Much More Magazine writer and author Alex Tresniowski remembered hearing a story about a young girl named Marie Smith, who had been... News 28 Jan 2021 | 07:19
Photo via Amazon.com On Grudge-Holding and Forgiveness In an effort to begin 2021 anew, I want “Let it go” to be my theme song, because for me, grudge-holding is an Olympic event... Voices 18 Jan 2021 | 11:22
Betsy Bober Polivy on the 8th Street and MacDougal sign pole surrounded by business owners. The photo was taken when the Manhattan Sideways website won the 2017 “Best of Manhattan.” Photo: Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc) Sidestepping Her Way Through Manhattan For Betsy Bober Polivy, what started as an ambitious itinerary turned into a cherished experience. After raising her family... News 21 Nov 2020 | 10:48
Maria Hinojosa. Photo: Kevin Abosch Making Every Word Count for Every Person Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Maria Hinojosa idolized journalists like Dan Rather and Bill Moyers, never imagining... News 26 Oct 2020 | 09:17
Photo via Amazon.com A Star Dancer’s Story for Kids Misty Copeland has long told the story of the childhood ballet teacher who recognized her talent and took the young dancer,... News 30 Sep 2020 | 02:54
Cover photos by Addie Egan. Writing the Book on COVID When the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City, Dr. Krutika Parasar Raukar was a rotating resident in three area hospitals,... News 30 Aug 2020 | 12:30
Darin Strauss. Photo by Robert Birnbaum. Rewriting the History of a New York Businessman & Hollywood Darling “I Love Lucy” was so popular that it reached the equivalent of 85 million people per week. To give that statistic some perspective,... News 23 Aug 2020 | 07:53
David Opie stands in front of the window gallery installation. Photo courtesy of David Opie All the World’s Birds in One Window Ever since he was a young boy, David Opie has loved birds. He would spend his childhood afternoons exploring the woods behind... News 21 Aug 2020 | 05:45
Bees in hand. ( Photo: Paulo Anjou) Catching More New Yorkers with Honey The Big Apple is sweeter because of the work of Andrew Coté. A fourth-generation beekeeper who maintains close to 100 beehives... News 28 Jun 2020 | 02:16
Meredith Fineman, CEO of FinePoint and author of “Brag Better.” ( Photo: Mariah Miranda) Asserting Our Bragging Rights There is an art to bragging and Meredith Fineman has made a career out of it. The 33-year-old educates others on how to brag... News 14 Jun 2020 | 07:10
Elisabeth Thomas’s debut novel, “Catherine House,” just made the New York Times’ Editors Choice list. ( Photo: Nina Subin) Two Different Writers, One Similar Dilemma One is 32, African American, grew up in Brooklyn, and has just published her first novel. The other is 81, white, grew up... News 12 Jun 2020 | 12:25
Viral Reads At the end of the day, who doesn’t like to curl up with a good book, especially a horror story scary enough to curl your... News 13 May 2020 | 11:17
Author Amy Klein. ( Photo: Charlotte Crawford) 'The Emotional Journey is Always Very Similar' Amy Klein is a journalist and essayist. Her New York Times column, “Fertility Diary,” followed her four-year journey to have... News 24 Apr 2020 | 12:31
On the New York Roller Coaster “One day I was a grungy East Village NYU grad, and the next, a neo-geisha glam girl.” Like each of the four main characters... News 20 Feb 2020 | 04:35