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 […]
La la la Pulitzer!(Bracha)
April 19, 2010 by
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 STRONG!
April 14, 2010 by
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 […]
Notes on Cupcakes (Bracha)
April 7, 2010 by
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, […]
More on the iPad (Bracha)
April 7, 2010 by
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 […]
Spring Fever (Bracha)
April 4, 2010 by
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 pastels! (Okay, that was a joke. I will only wear black. I will only wear black. I will only wear black. But it’s spring! Let […]
the new New York Times, or iPad over breakfast
April 4, 2010 by
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 reading the NYT for hours before. Fresh from my triumphant pairing of my bluetooth keyboard to iPad (but darn, doesn’t work on TWO computers at […]
the good, the bad, and the beautiful iPad
April 3, 2010 by
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. Really, all a lot more than good, but I was channeling Clint Eastwood. The bad: where’s THE HUSBAND app, Harold wants to know, as I […]
The iPad has arrived!
April 3, 2010 by
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 so beautiful, just the perfect iPad opener…..
Why I Paint (Bracha)
March 22, 2010 by
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 spent a good deal of bitterly cold winter nights painting. This recent extra-curricular development is unambitious. I do not fantasize pretentious gallery openings or cocktail […]