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Joe’s Pub & the GPS girl
If I had needed a GPS to find Joe’s Pub this week, I could easily have received directions from the very woman I was going to see. Karen Jacobsen was launching her seventh CD at the Pub on Tuesday night, … Continue reading
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Rockefeller standing stones
Only an Australian could bring Stonehenge to the Rockefeller Plaza. Nicholas Baume, the chief curator from the Public Art Fund who brought us the aerial living room around the statue of Christopher Columbus last year, now brings us the contemplative … Continue reading
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Happy Mother’s Day
For mothers and daughters and sisters and maternal ones, this is your day. No matter where you are, celebrate, you are much loved….
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Music under New York
B.B.King is a classic name in blues music, both for the man himself ( he still performs at 87) and for his namesake on 42nd street. His club is home to the Harlem Gospel Choir on Sundays as well as … Continue reading
Spring in Central Park
It was a day of superlatives in Central park. Spectacular weather, glorious sunshine and joyous smiles on happy faces. After wonky Spring weather started, stopped and waylaid the blooming schedule of thousands of plants around the city, it was pure … Continue reading
Screaming around NYC
There has been a lot of ( official ) screaming around NYC in the past few months. The inspiration may have come from the sale at Sotheby’s last year of Edvard Munch’s The Scream for $120M, which made it the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arvid, Munch, Scandinavia House, The Multiple Image, Warhol
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What a Ball!
The Pierre Hotel was an appropriately grand venue for the American Scandinavian Foundation Spring Ball on Friday night. The hotel was once home to Elizabeth Taylor, Al Pacino danced the tango in the Cotillion Room during filming of ’The Scent of a … Continue reading
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Tagged American Scandinavian Foundation, Bill Cunningham, The Pierre
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The Mighty Quinn
Barbecue American style is all about the rub, the smoking and to some extent the sauce, so I have never been a big fan. The wonderfully charred and simply seasoned Australian BBQ was always my preference. Once in Alabama we … Continue reading
Peas in a Pod
A new hotel on the east side near Grand Central Station is boasting about the size of their rooms, and with good reason. These have to be the most well designed compact rooms in the city. It’s a Capricorn’s dream … Continue reading
Seed for Song
With the coming of Spring, we have reintroduced our increasingly popular ‘seed for song’ program on the balcony. We started it a few years ago, and in that time have recognised blue jays, hummingbirds and finches enjoying the exchange. But … Continue reading
