As a third-generation American, I confess that I rarely think about my birthright of freedom. Lady Liberty, often mass produced as kitsch souvenirs for tourists, has become a ubiquitous logo for New York like that of the Eiffel Tower for Paris. Illuminating the glass-enclosed Prow Art Space of Manhattan’s Flatiron […]
There’s good reason why The New York Times called art sites that “quirky little gallery.” Thanks to its inventive director, Glynis Berry, this landmark art space in the sleepy, historic town of Riverhead, Long Island in New York, has persevered during this recession where others have failed. Ms. Berry loves […]
by Sara Evans Musical or opera? Opera or musical? Ever since “Porgy and Bess” was first launched in 1935, the controversy has raged. But while critics have foamed and fumed ever since the birth of this American icon, audiences continue to flock to its successive productions. Its current iteration, “The […]
by Ellen Edwards Cities are dynamic, their districts wax and wane, are hot or not. And nowhere is this fact of urban life truer than San Francisco’s SoMa, the district South of Market Street, the long street that slices all the way through the city, from Twin Peaks to the […]
The YWCA of Palm Beach County in conjunction with Every Child Matters – Education Fund and Colors of Life Foundation is presenting to the community during the month of March a national photography and banner exhibition as part of a non-partisan public education campaign to spotlight the needs of children […]
by Sally E. Svenson Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill, was one. Consuelo Vanderbilt, wife of Winston’s cousin, the Duke of Marlborough, was another. But it is not widely known that there were three American women who married into the illustrious Churchill family of England in the last third of […]
STEVEN CARAS: SEE THEM DANCE An all new public television documentary presented by Arizona PBS, begins airing in March, 2011 The film concerns the life and work of Steven Caras, a former New York City Ballet dancer, who transformed his career to become one of the world’s […]
Grand Opening of The New World Center IN MIAMI BEACH New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, marks a new era for classical music with the inauguration of the institution’s first purpose-built home, an extraordinary new facility in the center of Miami Beach. Designed by Frank Gehry in […]