What: Earth Day Volunteering Where: Socrates Sculpture Park When: Friday, April 18, 9:00 am–2:00 pm Why: Socrates said, “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” We’ve all tried to make a difference in the environment, either…
Zooming north on the train after work, I feel like a kid again, giddy with nose-pressed-to-window anticipation, escaping to a skier’s paradise in the Poconos. Why any New Yorker would pay to fly to a ski community baffles me;…
What: Steel Train headlines in New Jersey Where: Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken When: Thursday, December 27, 8:30 pm Why: High-energy performances and hunky rockers. The best band you probably never heard of: New Jersey’s very own quintet, Steel…
At first, I took the train from Westchester to the Bedford Avenue stop to see for myself that a wind-generated environmentally friendly brewery did exist in Brooklyn. What I saw and tasted has brought me back repeatedly. T.G.I.F. every…
What: Matisyahu’s 2nd Annual Festival of Light Celebration Where: Warsaw, located inside the Polish National Home, in Greenpoint/Williamsburg Why: Matisyahu – the famous jammin’ Jew reggae star – is moving his Festival of Light Celebration South to Brooklyn! Come…
What: The Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights Why: This is a New York holiday favorite. The park’s winding pathways will be glowing with more than half a million twinkling lights and larger-than-life lighted animal and holiday displays. Discover what fun…
What: Trapped in Purgatory Why: Trapped in Purgatory is a re-creation of Dante’s nine circles of hell where tortured souls are doomed to live out their afterlife in limbo. There will be scary special effects. Visitors will walk through…
Living in one of the fashion capitals of the world has numbed many of us to the idea of shopping outside of New York City. Until now, New Yorkers have had little reason to. About an hour north of…
If art, architecture, landscape, and travel are a few of your favorite things, you might consider taking a trip to the Dia:Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley. Only sixty miles (eighty minutes travel time) north of New York City,…
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