Extraordinary entertainers are reading books for your kids. Via the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
By way of background, I joined Screen Actors Guild in Dallas, Texas in 1971 and I’ve been an active, working …
New Year’s Eve menu at Petit Louis in Roland Park is inspired; with the wine pairings, it’s perfect.
Sometimes a menu is so special, so well thought out, that it requires sharing. Such is the case with this year’s …
Peabody’s Aeris Brass Quintet creates some of the most joyous sounds of the Holiday Season.
From WBAL TV in Baltimore, Season to Celebrate—a program capturing the sights and sounds of the holidays and featuring local …
Lincoln Center invites you to enjoy a jazzy, big band holiday celebration—in New York or online.
Enjoy Big Band Holidays, in NYC or where ever you are! Dec 13, 7pm Dec 14–16, 8pm Dec 17, 2pm …
A Thanksgiving Tradition: Based on an actual event from 1965, Arlo Gutherie’s Alice’s Restaurant
According to Wikipedia,”Alice’s Restaurant was first performed publicly with Guthrie singing live on Radio Unnameable, the overnight program hosted by Bob …
When Jacob makes homemade potato chips my world is a happier, crispier place.
The real-world image. And here’s the recipe, because our friend Ryan Eakin asked for it.
News from the Barnes Foundation: Now, browse and download artworks based on visual characteristics.
In celebration of its fifth anniversary in Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation has launched a new collection website that enables visitors …
At Baltimore’s Center Club: A 4-course dinner and 3-sets of jazz featuring Nico Sarbanes. Perfect.
As a kid, I became a devoted fan of jazz and the standards. Years later, I discovered the supper club …
Our self-congratulatory president is an embarrassment; America is becoming the World’s Clown Car.
My take on a HuffPost compilation of Trump’s “I, I, I, Me, Me, Me, and Me proclamations. Stop the insanity. …
A 1955 Halloween treat from Suspense: Agnes Moorehead in “The Whole Town Sleeping”
Agnes Moorehead delivers a frightening portrayal of a level-headed spinster who makes a mistake one evening. She walks home alone …
The designer of the single most identifiable sign of the cold war—and my childhood—has died.
In the 1960s, they seemed to be everywhere. Churches, department stores, apartment buildings, schools, firehouses, libraries, and telephone switching facilities …
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: …
My fascination with type began with the publication U&lc. There may be a new kid on the block.
In the early 70s, I was in the waiting room of Modernage, one of the hundreds of photo duplication houses in …
The one about a lesson in theatrical timing. Or that messy thing that fell from the sky.
In the 1970s, I was a student at the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. The school was in …
