MACAULAY ARTS NIGHT V. ENRON

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 […]

La la la Pulitzer!(Bracha)

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 […]

BRUNO STRONG!

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 […]

Notes on Cupcakes (Bracha)

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 […]

More on the iPad (Bracha)

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 […]

Spring Fever (Bracha)

It is spring! The season beckons exclamation points. Leaves! Tulips! Sparrows hopping and chirping! My heavy winter coat no longer suffocates me with its wooly warmth. A light spring jacket—in […]

the new New York Times, or iPad over breakfast

Novelty factor waning….NOT. When the NYT hit my doorstep at 7am, I realized that I was still slave to my Pavlovian training for that sound.  Really, I could have been […]

the good, the bad, and the beautiful iPad

The good:  glorious screen, typing better than I expected, new book reading apps from iBooks and Kindle are huge improvements over previous interfaces.  Weight not bad.  Size excellent. Battery fantastic.  […]

The iPad has arrived!

and now… it is plugged in, but I need the new iTunes, ABORT ABORT ABORT……waiting for iTunes 9.1 and sadly, I must shut off A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, which sounded […]

Why I Paint (Bracha)

I paint. These evenings, I no longer gravitate to the towering piles of books on my nightstand and bookshelves, nor do I bother with my own writing. Instead, I have […]