Vote for Macaulay

1. Literally: check out the Eportfolio showcase and vote for your favorite Macaulay digital presence.  Hmmm, why is my link button grayed out?  (And when did GRAY become a verb?). […]

Speaking at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, NJ

May 2@1030a I’ll be there with Jill Vexler and the Letters to Sala exhibition Our host:  Adam Shapiro, Dean of Students Golda Och Academy 1418 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, […]

I’m giving a talk on “Memoirs and Mothers” at Museum of Jewish Heritage

Wednesday May 11 7p Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York “Memoirs About Our Mothers”

I’ll be speaking at Young Israel, Staten Island

Sunday May 1, 2011 @ 730p Yom Hashoah Commemoration Young Israel of Staten Island, 835 Forest Hill Road, Staten Island

Tombstone karma

So many terrible things to mourn about the Tucson tragedy….and since it happened in the shadow of Tombstone, we are in for a serious round of OK Corral references. Here’s […]

Do you applaud at movies?

Loved The King’s Speech.  Not too many films run the gamut from soliciting belly laughs to cheers and tears. But I was informed by my daughter that applause at movies […]

La Traviata, champagne with new bubbles

There was some booing last night, when director Willy Decker came on stage…but not a lot.  Good thing, because this is the most exciting Traviata in years. I could write […]

Why I listened to Stanley Fish in 1971…or the best movie review ever

Don’t miss Stanley Fish on True Grit in today’s NYT. In 1971, I talked my way into a graduate seminar that Stanley Fish was teaching at the Linguistic Institute, a […]

Olive does NOT like snow

STEP TWO: OLIVE TO ANN;  DO I HAVE TO? See that beseeching look?  I mean, it’s cold, it’s wet, there’s salt on the street….. STEP THREE:  NO I WILL NOT! […]

Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..

Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton will open at Rollins College on February 11, 2011…and Tony Kushner will be there a few months later.  OK, so we’re not exactly on […]