I had to leave Macaulay Arts Night to see the new Broadway show, ENRON, and I wish I had stayed. Enron was boring, didactic, frantic, and way too long. Macaulay Arts Night — dynamic, exciting, creative to the max.  Painting, performance, poetry, video, graphic design.  Fabulous cookies. Congratulations to the Macaulay Arts Night team and [...]

Paul Harding’s Tinker, a novel published by the Bellevue Literary Press, won the Pulitzer Prize last week. Two summers ago, I interned at that small publication within the walls of Bellevue hospital. Each morning, I would walk down First Avenue, past the man on the corner with the red turban around his head who was [...]

Bruno Salazar was traveling with two other Macaulay@City College seniors in Costa Rica last week.  They were there to volunteer as tutors in an orphanage, and then they continued on for a few days of touring, before a catastrophic accident on an ATV left Bruno with a severe spinal cord injury that may leave him [...]

A Symbol of Status in the Me-Me-Me Generation Hello, my name is Bracha and I am cupcake-junkie. Can I just say, YUM? Any visit to the Upper West Side requires a stop at Magnolia Bakery for my fix: red velvet. What is it about cupcakes that is so enticing? Immortalized by Sex and the City, [...]

I do not have an iPad yet (though I believe it is time to make some big technological changes in my life), but have been watching the digital drama unfold over the weekend (and on this blog). The NYTimes published an interesting piece in their Room for Debate blog yesterday called: The iPad in the [...]