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The Click Clique: Internet Week NY HQ’s Opening Party
The Metropolitan Pavilion underwent a decidedly digital makeover at the Internet Week kickoff party on Monday night. Between 7:30 and 11p.m., the upscale space more befitting an art gallery than an expo hall played webhost to dozens of startups, networks,… (more)
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Sister Act
When asked my favorite movies, I always answer Sister Act and Baby Boomer. Even my children know that. If we watch a movie the benchmark question is “Did you like it as much as Sister Act” This will be… (more)
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Summer Stockholm: Great Weather, Beautiful River Sights and Fascinating Royal History
The rich five hundred-year history of the Swedish Royal Family blends with egalitarian politics to create an enchanting country. Elegance is combined with an absence of royal snobbishness.
For example, visitors are welcomed into the inner courtyard of the Stockholm… (more)
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Visiting political and cultural Berlin, with a side-trip to Weimar
Cruising down the Spree on a wonderful summer afternoon, one is struck by the dramatic views of Berlin, both the imposing buildings from one or two centuries past – the Reichstag, the aptly named Berliner Dom (the cathedral), the Neues… (more)
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Cruise Trends and Trips: Meet baseball legends aboard legendary riverboat
This summer, two beloved American pastimes and traditions come together when the 436-passenger American Queen hosts some of Major League Baseball’s legends. MLB prankster Jay Johnstone, lefty pitcher Fritz Peterson, New York Yankee Ron Blomberg and 1969 World Champion Art… (more)
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NY Theater: The imaginary cursing woman in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy”
There is a fake character in Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy.” She is a foul-mouthed Newsday reporter, a woman whose cursing outdoes all the men. Such a female reporter didn’t exist. Quite the reverse: some male reporters at Newsday were so… (more)
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21st-Century Jewish Life in Berlin and Krakow
Jewish culture in Central Europe is in the midst of a dazzling renaissance stimulated by the fall of communism and the enlargement of the European Union. Nowhere is that more evident than in Berlin, the heart of Germany, and Krakow,… (more)
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Pick Your Grapes, Wine, and Destination…France
With any given vacation destination, unless you’ve been there before…once, twice, or even thrice, it is difficult to know where to go to eat, sleep, and explore. If you have dreamed of traveling to France but have never moved beyond the… (more)
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Bologna: preservation of an historic city for the people
I was standing in the Piazza Giuseppi Verdi, the site of the Bologna opera house, luxuriating in the mellifluous sounds of a classic soprano broadcast by loudspeakers into the square. A fellow pulled up in his motorcycle, switched off the… (more)
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Got Wanderlust?
Would you choose Vermont, Colorado, California or B.C. for a summer extravaganza of music, yoga and adventure?
Wanderlust brings together thousands of people from myriad backgrounds in spectacular outdoor settings, all the while cultivating a vibrant community of like-minded… (more)
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