12 days but 37 gifts
Just in time for Black Friday, Neiman Marcus at The Westchester in White Plains has unveiled “The Ken Downing Collection,” featuring 37 fab items…
All aboard
It’s time once again to get your tickets for the New York Botanical Garden’s “Holiday Train Show,” which runs through Jan. 12. Now in…
Rock on
Here’s a clever concert for people who enjoy tribute bands and participatory shows like “American Idol.” In “Rock Legends,” an unusual revue created by…
This making up isn’t hard to do
Nothing gets me revved up on a Sunday morning like the prospect of breakfast and makeup samples. So when Bloomingdale’s in White Plains invited…
Kudos…
To Rockland County sculptor Eric Laxman, whose abstract metal sculptures were features on a recent episode of CBS’ “Blue Bloods.” For more, visit ericdavidlaxman.com….
On the waterfront
New York is a city haunted by water. Its fluid landscape of bridges, wharves and smokestacks in the first half of the 20th century…
The girl in the fuchsia suit
Anyone who has ever seen Pat Battle’s reports from the Jersey Shore in the middle of a hurricane or a blizzard knows the “NBC4…
Elementary
Here’s a great way to help out two local organizations while pitting your powers of deduction against those of Sherlock Holmes. It’s murder, they…
On a high note
Purchase Opera, a first-rate student troupe, presents “Hansel and Gretel” at Purchase College’s Performing Arts Center Nov. 15-17, just as two alumni have snagged leading…
Poets’ corner
In an age when some pundits bemoan our cultural decline, Greenburgh continues to be a poetic oasis. The town – through Sarah Bracey White,…
Voices
Hildegard von Bingen – a saint and doctor of the Roman Catholic Church – was a Renaissance woman in the Middle Ages. Having experienced…
Voicing the concerns of children
As an elementary school teacher, Elena Olivieri wanted not only to be a voice for children but to help them cultivate their inner voices…
Blurred lines, Gaultier style
As a couturier, Jean Paul Gaultier has always been a voice for diversity – both social and aesthetic. He helped put the ambition in…
The quiet man
If you were going to cast a classic movie star to play New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning, whom would you pick? Possibly a…
Where Sleepy is anything but
With his satiric tales of Dutch and English settlers in the Hudson Valley, Tarrytown’s Washington Irving has long been a literary voice of WAG…
Toughen your timbre and polish your pitch
It’s an ironic sign of the times: On the one hand, thanks to karaoke and shows like “The Voice” and “American Idol,” everyone fancies…
Girl power
She’s a tween, a mere slip of a girl when it happens. Out there in the fields of Domrémy, France, where her farmer-parents plow…
Hearing voices
When “A Beautiful Mind” – Ron Howard’s film about schizophrenic mathematician John Nash – debuted in 2001, it was criticized in some circles for…
Yada, yada, yada
A good way to get people yakking is to ask them how yakking started. There are lots of questions and theories, but no real…
EDITOR’S LETTER – NOVEMBER 2013
My earliest memory is of myself singing. I was 4, accompanying my aunt and grandmother on a doctor’s visit. No doubt to amuse me,…