Before we observe Veteran’s Day on November 11, Woman Around Town completes a three-part series by career strategist Jason Veduccio interviewing experts who help returning warriors re-enter the workplace. This week, Jason talks with Leslie Lightfoot who is the Founder and Executive Director of the Veteran’s Homestead Inc., an independent,
The Able Fine Art NY Gallery is presenting, “We Are a Landscape of All We Have Seen,” an exhibition featuring select gallery artists in a new Lower East Side venue. The title, a quote from the great master, Isamu Noguchi, encapsulates the idea that each person is a universe and every artist
A new way to treat glaucoma…a bladeless drone…adjustable prosthetics…DNA-powered diagnostics…pesticides that degrade quickly…early detection of cervical cancer…freezing cancer cells with carbon dioxide…a lightweight, easy to use fire extinguisher… These cutting-edge inventions were developed, not by scientists in corporate environments, but by undergraduate and graduate students working in labs at colleges
Being the City That Never Sleeps, it makes sense that New York has a lot to offer. No one could ever experience everything that New York brings to the world, but locals have no excuse not to try! Sure, you don’t want to mingle with the countless tourists at the
The original Royal Shakespeare/Broadway production of this piece with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan was electric. From the moment Le Vicomte de Valmont (Liev Schreiber here) slithered into proximity of La Marquise de Merteuil (Janet McTeer in this production) the stage crackled with wit, innuendo, and sexual anticipation. While outwardly
Remember, remember the Fifth of November/Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot/I see no reason/Why gunpowder treason/Should ever be forgot. Those immortal lines commemorate the British tradition of remembering an attempted attack on Parliament with an annual celebration of bonfires and fireworks. In solidarity with our friends across the pond consider commemorating the
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns Based on real life situations and events, Marshall Goldberg has managed to seamlessly incorporate reality, caricature, humor (including one-liners like “the annoying never die”), and shtick in writing Daddy Issues. Add to that the perceptive and impeccable direction of
Noel Coward wrote and shelved Hoi Polloi in 1949. To discover why and how this production developed, click to read my preview article. Barry Day O.B.E., the Artistic Director of The Noel Coward Foundation and editor of this musical, calls it a “love song to London – a sort of
Before we observe Veteran’s Day on November 11, Woman Around Town completes a three-part series by career strategist Jason Veduccio interviewing experts who help returning warriors re-enter the workplace. This week, Jason talks with Leslie Lightfoot who is the Founder and Executive Director of the Veteran’s Homestead Inc., an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Fitchburg, Massachusetts whose mission is to provide medical, psychological, and spiritual care to veterans who are diagnosed with a terminal
The Able Fine Art NY Gallery is presenting, “We Are a Landscape of All We Have Seen,” an exhibition featuring select gallery artists in a new Lower East Side venue. The title, a quote from the great master, Isamu Noguchi, encapsulates the idea that each person is a universe and every artist creates visions personal to his or her journey. The show includes work from a group of emerging international artists and two prominent American artists –
A new way to treat glaucoma…a bladeless drone…adjustable prosthetics…DNA-powered diagnostics…pesticides that degrade quickly…early detection of cervical cancer…freezing cancer cells with carbon dioxide…a lightweight, easy to use fire extinguisher… These cutting-edge inventions were developed, not by scientists in corporate environments, but by undergraduate and graduate students working in labs at colleges and universities across the country. Each year, students are invited to submit their inventions to the Collegiate Inventors Competition. On November 4, the finalists –
Being the City That Never Sleeps, it makes sense that New York has a lot to offer. No one could ever experience everything that New York brings to the world, but locals have no excuse not to try! Sure, you don’t want to mingle with the countless tourists at the usual locations, but that’s no reason not to get out and explore the amazing city we live in. No matter what you’re into, there’s obviously
The original Royal Shakespeare/Broadway production of this piece with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan was electric. From the moment Le Vicomte de Valmont (Liev Schreiber here) slithered into proximity of La Marquise de Merteuil (Janet McTeer in this production) the stage crackled with wit, innuendo, and sexual anticipation. While outwardly meticulously proper, the Machiavellian power game played with others’ lives (and their own) is not just selfish and cruel, it’s rooted as firmly below the
Remember, remember the Fifth of November/Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot/I see no reason/Why gunpowder treason/Should ever be forgot. Those immortal lines commemorate the British tradition of remembering an attempted attack on Parliament with an annual celebration of bonfires and fireworks. In solidarity with our friends across the pond consider commemorating the occasion by watching one of the following. Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot (2004) This BBC mini-series directed by Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon (The Escapist, Hideous Kinky)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns Based on real life situations and events, Marshall Goldberg has managed to seamlessly incorporate reality, caricature, humor (including one-liners like “the annoying never die”), and shtick in writing Daddy Issues. Add to that the perceptive and impeccable direction of David Goldyn and you have an exceptionally enjoyable production. Matt Koplik as Donald Moscowitz does a terrific job portraying a twenty-something gay actor (he’s up
Noel Coward wrote and shelved Hoi Polloi in 1949. To discover why and how this production developed, click to read my preview article. Barry Day O.B.E., the Artistic Director of The Noel Coward Foundation and editor of this musical, calls it a “love song to London – a sort of post-war sequel to This Happy Breed in which Londoners pick up the pieces of their lives and cheerfully put them back together, as if nothing
