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KIDFUN to the Rescue to Relieve Winter Doldrums

As we embark on this new year, we still face months indoors with the kids. KIDFUN is here … to the rescue … with tips to occupy their time creatively and filled with fun, excluding electronics. After all, the kids have enough use of computers and electronics for virtual education. 

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Inauguration 2021: The New Chapter

Allow the seas of changeRise up to greet your shore.Let its power cleanse the saltFrom your every sore.Let the morning fog carressYour every troubled thought.Take a new look at Democracy Denouncing untruths by the lot. Let the palm trees swayTo cool our angered south.Let religious prayFor souls parched by a drouth.See

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Love, Noël -The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward

This was reviewed in its first incarnation August 2019. It can now be streamed on January 28 at 7:00 & February 8 at 3:00 – Irish Repertory Theatre. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 –1973) was a British playwright/poet/songwriter/director/actor singer, known for wit, theatricality, and personal style; what Time Magazine called

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First Look Spring/Summer: Tie-Dye

Yes, it’s back. Remember when we used to make these in the bathtub!? No longer exclusively hippie, tie dye is now fashion. Tops   clockwise Scarf-Accented Tie Dyed Blouse by Rokh: Features a button-down silhouette with long sleeves and an attached tonal scarf-accent draped along the shoulders. Polyester. $390.00 Tie Dye

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Transatlantic Tales – Reaching Out

Playwrights were asked to write three minute scenes set on a ZOOM call between the United States and Ireland. Performed live and recorded June 2020. They are almost all really good- imaginative, well acted, relatable, entertaining. Streaming Again Tuesday January 26 at 8 p.m. The Rogue Om by Matthew Cole

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Stream Selected Films of Glenn Close

The World According to Garp 1982 Based on the novel by John Irving. Directed by George Roy Hill. Utterly unique characters and some very fine acting. The vastly unconventional story of T. S. Garp (Robin Williams), bastard son of once abused feminist mother, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close). Jenny becomes a

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A Covid Story In Progress – A WAT Writer Gets the Plague

Saturday, January 16, 2021 I felt the first symptom last Wednesday night.  I was feeling fine all day, a little scratchy throat from what I thought was the paper mask.  By 8 p.m., my temperature was 100.1, and I was unusually tired and achy. I lay on the couch, blanket

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Help Sustain Birdland

1949, in the tradition of Owney Madden and his Cotton Club, Morris Levy and five partners opened “Birdland, Jazz Corner of the World” on Broadway just north of 52nd street. Named after headliner, alto-saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, it was considered downtown to Harlemites. In the biography “Bird Lives,” when Parker

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KIDFUN to the Rescue to Relieve Winter Doldrums

As we embark on this new year, we still face months indoors with the kids. KIDFUN is here … to the rescue … with tips to occupy their time creatively and filled with fun, excluding electronics. After all, the kids have enough use of computers and electronics for virtual education.  Below are fun-filled suggestions for play at home, when kids are stuck indoors. They’re from my newest book, KIDFUN: 401 EASY IDEAS FOR PLAY, but,

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Inauguration 2021: The New Chapter

Allow the seas of changeRise up to greet your shore.Let its power cleanse the saltFrom your every sore.Let the morning fog carressYour every troubled thought.Take a new look at Democracy Denouncing untruths by the lot. Let the palm trees swayTo cool our angered south.Let religious prayFor souls parched by a drouth.See the blossomed rose,Remembering its thorn:Pedals falling to the groundWhile its sweet aroma mourns. We are a single nation With acres big and small.Planting seeds of many

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Love, Noël -The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward

This was reviewed in its first incarnation August 2019. It can now be streamed on January 28 at 7:00 & February 8 at 3:00 – Irish Repertory Theatre. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 –1973) was a British playwright/poet/songwriter/director/actor singer, known for wit, theatricality, and personal style; what Time Magazine called a combination of “pose and poise.” Man/Pianist/Noël plays a few bars of “Someday I’ll Find You.”Woman: Extraordinary how potent cheap music can be. Didn’t Noël

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First Look Spring/Summer: Tie-Dye

Yes, it’s back. Remember when we used to make these in the bathtub!? No longer exclusively hippie, tie dye is now fashion. Tops   clockwise Scarf-Accented Tie Dyed Blouse by Rokh: Features a button-down silhouette with long sleeves and an attached tonal scarf-accent draped along the shoulders. Polyester. $390.00 Tie Dye Silk Blouse by Anna Kosturova: Hand tie-dyed by craftsman in India. Billowing sleeves and tassel ties at the neckline. 100% silk. 40% off at $171.00    

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Transatlantic Tales – Reaching Out

Playwrights were asked to write three minute scenes set on a ZOOM call between the United States and Ireland. Performed live and recorded June 2020. They are almost all really good- imaginative, well acted, relatable, entertaining. Streaming Again Tuesday January 26 at 8 p.m. The Rogue Om by Matthew Cole Kelly with Diana Gallagher and Kevin Collins. Fona and Karl miss one another. She wants to come home to New York. Her yoga class has

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Stream Selected Films of Glenn Close

The World According to Garp 1982 Based on the novel by John Irving. Directed by George Roy Hill. Utterly unique characters and some very fine acting. The vastly unconventional story of T. S. Garp (Robin Williams), bastard son of once abused feminist mother, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close). Jenny becomes a school nurse raising her child outside convention. Garp grows up interested in wrestling and fiction (much like the book’s author), marries the wrestling coach’s daughter

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A Covid Story In Progress – A WAT Writer Gets the Plague

Saturday, January 16, 2021 I felt the first symptom last Wednesday night.  I was feeling fine all day, a little scratchy throat from what I thought was the paper mask.  By 8 p.m., my temperature was 100.1, and I was unusually tired and achy. I lay on the couch, blanket around me, hoodie fully covering my head. I decided to wait it out and see how the night went, and decide what to do in the

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Help Sustain Birdland

1949, in the tradition of Owney Madden and his Cotton Club, Morris Levy and five partners opened “Birdland, Jazz Corner of the World” on Broadway just north of 52nd street. Named after headliner, alto-saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, it was considered downtown to Harlemites. In the biography “Bird Lives,” when Parker first saw the club, he remarked: “It’s out’a sight. Do I get to play in here?” A couple of years later, he was found running

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