Culture For The Non-Cultured

For obvious reasons, Fridays rock my world.  Even more than Saturdays, methinks.  There’s something about the anticipation of a free day to plan for that thrills me to no end. 
Tomorrow, a large group of Culture Vultures is going to see Metropolitan Museum of Art.  There’s a sculpture of a balloon animal on the roof!
Oh, and [...]

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My friend, Gail*, told me this story:
Gail was volunteering through New York Cares, an organization that offers people opportunities to volunteer on various projects in the community. She had a 10-week commitment to teach computers to the elderly in Harlem.
There was one woman, Ruth, who was having a particularly tough time getting used to [...]

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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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… And by “Little Tramp,” I mean Charlie Chaplin, so get your mind out of the gutter, Dear Reader.
Last year’s New Yorker had a wonderful little gem of a story about Chaplin’s work ethic (if you go to the link for the story, you need to scroll down to the end to read [...]

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