Culture For The Non-Cultured

Ah, just came back from visiting P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the museum in Long Island City, and I loved it! My favorite exhibits are interactive and whimsical and I had a ball.
There was James Turrell’s Meeting, a serene room with benches all around it and a perfect square cut through the ceiling. [...]

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So, every year for a very long time, I have asked myself which season is best, or the least tortourus for me: winter, with its cold, dark days and colder darker nights, or summer, with its oppressive, wilt-inducing, pee-smelling but bright ‘n shiny days?
Well, I am self-absorbed enough to test it once and for all.  [...]

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Earlier this month, I went on a tour of Carnegie Hall with a group from Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup.
‘Twas a really cool tour, where we learned stuff about Andrew Carnegie and the Hall itself– like that:

Andrew Carnegie’s mommy forbid him to marry while she was alive (hmmmm … Freud would have a [...]

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As I explained in an earlier blog, on the weekends, I like to take staycations: to experience New York City as if I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tourist on one of those ubiquitous double-decker buses. This attitude is tempered, of course, with the knowledge of one who is lucky enough to call herself [...]

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On the weekends, I try to experience New York City as if I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tourist on one of those ubiquitous double-decker buses.  This attitude is tempered, of course, with the knowledge of one who is lucky enough to call herself a New Yorker.
This is what is known as a “staycation,” staying [...]

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