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?). OK, try here: http://bit.ly/gCPwox 2. Macaulay students, identify yourself! I was recently told by LinkedIn’s CEO that I was one of his first 100,000 users. […]
Speaking at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, NJ
April 4, 2011 by
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, NJ 07052 973-602-3690
I’m giving a talk on “Memoirs and Mothers” at Museum of Jewish Heritage
April 3, 2011 by
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
April 2, 2011 by
Sunday May 1, 2011 @ 730p Yom Hashoah Commemoration Young Israel of Staten Island, 835 Forest Hill Road, Staten Island
Tombstone karma
January 10, 2011 by
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 one from Timothy Egan titled “Tombstone Politics” from today’s NYT: And Gail Collins quotes Giffords herself after her office was vandalized: Giffords brushed off the […]
Do you applaud at movies?
January 2, 2011 by
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 was one of her pet peeves. I hope she took my enthusiastic clapping as more mischievous than mean. I liked her explanation of “pet peeves” […]
La Traviata, champagne with new bubbles
January 1, 2011 by
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 two reviews of last night’s New Year’s Eve premiere of La Traviata. My opera partner Charlie and I were there with six opera novices, who […]
Why I listened to Stanley Fish in 1971…or the best movie review ever
December 28, 2010 by
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 summer program that hit Buffalo that year. This was a very different kind of traveling circus, one where Noam Chomsky and other luminaries were the […]
Olive does NOT like snow
December 27, 2010 by
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! So that is what 96th street looks like? You want me to go all the up to Central Park? For my benefit? To play? Don’t […]
Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..
December 23, 2010 by
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 the same page, but we’re close! Either way, I’d love to see you in Winter Park Florida. I will be there as Scholar in Residence […]