From the “Holy Sparks” exhibit. Photo: Michele Willens A Moment for Women Rabbis It started a dozen years ago with Ronda Spinak’s dream of creating something to celebrate women rabbis. She runs The Braid... News 05 Apr 2022 | 03:15
Lynn Nottage. Photo: The Huntington, via Flickr She’s All Over New York Stages Right now, it’s hard to find a theater in New York that is not canceling performances due to COVID. It is also, by the way,... News 04 Jan 2022 | 02:30
JJ Velazquez. Photo: Michele Willens Clemency, Freedom ... and Giving Back For 23 years he was known as AA2803. Jon-Adrian Velazquez (known to many as JJ) spent 23 years in maximum security at Sing... News 15 Dec 2021 | 01:45
Photo via Amazon.com A Music Mogul Writes About the ‘Hollytics’ of 2020 New Yorker Danny Goldberg has had a long and varied career. He has run prestigious record companies, managed folks like Kurt... News 02 Nov 2021 | 11:25
Gianni Perilli in his church office. Photo: Michele Willens A Man Named Gianni You want tips on avoiding memory loss? I have got the guy and the church for you. Yes, you heard right and hold that thought.... News 26 Oct 2021 | 11:51
Erik Larson speaking in Toronto, 2015. Photo: Wanderland, via Flickr Erik Larson Tells a Ghost Story Erik Larson has taken us inside a World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, filled with magic, mystery and murder. He has taken us... News 28 Sep 2021 | 02:16
Left to right: Haviland Morris, Rita Wolf, Charlotte Bydwell, Matilda Sakamoto and Yvonne Woods in a scene from “What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad,” written and directed by Richard Nelson. Photo: Jason Ardizzone-West All in the Families He has created three families that may not be ours, but have come to feel like they are. Playwright Richard Nelson, at 70,... City Arts 15 Sep 2021 | 10:45
Photo via Amazon.com A New Book That Takes Us Back His friends, and many in the entertainment business, still call him Woody. And while he has penned some well-known films,... News 26 May 2021 | 01:02
Rachel Bennett (right) actor Rich Orlow. Photo courtesy of Rachel Bennett A ‘Hurlyburly’ Dream Who knows why a certain play, many years later, may resonate in new ways? And who knows what creative ideas may emerge in... News 14 Apr 2021 | 06:22
Joanne McFarland, “Selfie With Lilies.” Photo courtesy of Joanne McFarland Their Art Continued ... They are three women who, in many ways, could not be more different. Yet, they have all managed to continue — and even elevate... City Arts 13 Apr 2021 | 03:06
Photo via Amazon.com A New Book About Our Old City Thomas Dyja, who lives on the Upper West Side, has spent the last eight years raising two children, publishing a book about... News 07 Apr 2021 | 12:02
Photo courtesy of Bob Gruen A Life of Chronicling Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Bob Gruen says he has been thinking of writing a memoir for 50 years. Now 74, and with the help of journalist Dave Thompson,... News 17 Mar 2021 | 12:38
Cover of Arthur Drooker’s “City Hall.” Photo courtesy of Arthur Drooker City Halls Celebrated Think of all the bad raps City Hall gets: “You can’t fight it.” It’s where our local representatives fight over budgets and... City Arts 07 Mar 2021 | 10:57
Photo via Amazon.com A Month of Theatrical Memories If you are interested in how directors, actors, and writers work their magic on stage, this is your lucky month. A quartet... News 09 Feb 2021 | 12:08
Photo via Amazon.com A Book About Murder, Mystery and So Much More Magazine writer and author Alex Tresniowski remembered hearing a story about a young girl named Marie Smith, who had been... News 28 Jan 2021 | 07:19
