AFL-CIO, “At the Triangle factory, women had to leave the building to use the bathroom.”
Honoring the victims and legacy of the 1911 fire, the memorial will be unveiled and dedicated …
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The Trumps asked to borrow a van Gogh from the Guggenheim; head curator had a better idea.
The Washington Post’s Paul Schwartzman is reporting that the White House asked the Guggenheim for a loan of Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 …
NYC’s Grand Central Terminal has a new website. First question? “How many approvals did *that* take?”
They also introduced a new logo. But first, the news by way of an email that I received this afternoon: …
The one about a lesson in theatrical timing. Or that messy thing that fell from the sky.
In the early 1970s, I was a student at the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. The school was in …
1972, NYC. I knew Sal Naturile—a first-hand account of the actual Dog Day Afternoon.
Calmly, Sal said, “I’ve got to hang up. I think there are police at the back door. Tell Joe hi …
For my dear friend, Shirley Ray
New York City. 1981. On a beautiful autumn evening, after we’d enjoyed a grand dinner at Tavern on the Green, we …
But Mary Tyler Moore as Holly Golightly seemed like such a swell idea back in ’66.
Despite having a book by playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Finding the Sun), a score composed by Bob Merrill …
Truman Capote reads part of Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the 92nd Street Y, 1963
In 1963, Capote read from Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the 92nd Street Y, a cultural center on New York’s Upper East …