Archive for January, 2010

Hirschhorn in Cape Town

Friday, January 29th, 2010

At a time when the world is becoming infinitely smaller day by day, travel becomes a bit easier, perhaps, and certainly more necessary.  Although it’s much easier to communicate with friends, loved ones, and new acquaintances in other countries, it’s still important to be there, in order to start to have any real kind of [...]

Secrets in New York Restaurants

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

You never really know a person until you can sit down and have a long meal with them.  At least, that’s one of the best ways.  You can find out all sorts of things about a person by the way they conduct themselves when they’re busy eating.  It might sound a little creepy, like I [...]

Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

The history of any kind of art in New York City is going to have a lot of diverse roots, taking influences from multiple locations and multiple ideologies.  Like the people who make up the city, the ideas and the art forms are hybrid forms from the world’s cultures, and develop together to form something [...]

New Perspectives in Central Park

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

I’m just watching the world go ‘round. I’m just watching the people roll. Tonight the stars will replace them. ‘Til then I watch the flow. Kenny repeated these lines that grew from his original motto for the day, which in turn grew from his original intention of existing only as an observer for twenty-four hours. [...]

NY’s Mambo King

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I don’t think I’ll ever remember the first time I heard a mambo, because they were part of everything I heard from a very young age.  It was always in the air, the neighborhood blasted it, and my mother always had it playing on the radio.  I remember she had a small photo of Perez [...]

Pleasant Memories Growing up in North Carolina

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Edward had been born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He loved his home town and honestly hated to leave it even though the reason was that he was going to school in Southern California. He had always considered it to be one of his dreams to live and go to school in San Diego, [...]

Paris, New York

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The best part of that year wasn’t spent in any fancy restaurants, and no one had to spend hundreds of dollars on a new dress.  It was one of those absurdly simple evenings right after a rain, and the rain was the single most important factor in all of this.  If it weren’t raining, there [...]

The Creative Mission of the Boston Ballet

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

For those visiting or living in the city of Boston this springtime, a wonderful world of dance will be available.  The Boston Ballet will be performing “Coppélia“  each weekend during the first two weeks of April.  Their schedule continues with two different works in May.  The first half of the month the company will perform [...]

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