Where to find an outdoor market for all-season vendors, with food including Italian sandwiches, tacos & salads
New York City
New York City’s most Instagrammable art
New York City has some of the best places to travel solo - including the hottest Instagrammable art.
NYC Eats: While We Were Young
As if the name of this New York City restaurant doesn’t already appeal to this English major elder millennial. That’s me, by the way. While We Were Young’s restaurant name is based off a Walt Whitman poem: ONCE I PASS’D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY. ONCE I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows,...
To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of those novels that almost feels like a bible. I’ve carried a copy of the book from my high school English class to my dorm room in college and then, later, from apartment to apartment across state lines. It’s now sitting on my desk as I write this review of...
New York City’s Chelsea Market
The seasons are quickly changing now that 4 p.m. with daylight savings time looks pitch black. It’s cold and windy in New York City, but that doesn’t mean you have to hibernate. Here’s a unique, hidden gem in New York City that makes winter feel… well, less miserable. Leave the house and take a walk through the historic...
EXHIBIT: “Heavenly Bodies” at the Met
It’s a rainy day in New York City, and I kept thinking about what makes me feel most alive. Nothing rivals a good meal in good company. That I know for sure.
SHOW: “I Was Most Alive With You”
A must-see off-Broadway masterpiece, before it leaves New York City. I want to see God. I don’t want any more signs. I want to see His face. — Russell Harvard, “Knox” I didn’t know what to expect. “I was most alive with you,” an off-Broadway show, captivated me with its use of two languages: English and American Sign Language....
New York Botanical Garden: Smelling Death, finding Love
It was back in high school when I read about “Amorphophallus Titanum” — a flower that might bloom once in more than a decade. No guarantees. And when it does bloom after years and years of nothing, it’s infamously known as the “corpse flower.” Because its odor, scientists can only describe as smelling like a rotting corpse or...
NYC Gotham Comedy Club
For the past year, each visit to New York City includes a stop at Gotham Comedy Club. I have met some wonderful comedians — recently during my birthday weekend visit, David Koechner performing as a headliner. And was he a pleasure to meet.