Wednesday 23 May 2012
The world we are leaving for our children and grandchildren is competitive in ways not seen before. President Barack Obama reiterated the national effort to ease the path to citizenship for “the best and the brightest” from around the world. And with the globalization of information transfer, they don’t even have to come stateside...
If it is Sunday morning and you’re reading this column over a coffee instead of going to church I have great news for you. You’re alive! That’s right. The predicted “day of reckoning” and doomsday of May 21st has come and gone and those that predicted our demise, with or without redemption, were...
Growing Genius In an ongoing search for ways for parents to use multiple intelligence theory to discover and unleash their child’s innate genius, I attended a screening of Independent Film New York (IFNY). The founder of IFNY, Attika Torrence, introduced the filmmakers for Q & A. I was moved by the synergy existing between...
B. Smith in “Love, Loss and What I Wore” B. Smith, yes the restaurant owner of the soul food restaurant in Manhattan’s Theater District is in a play, Love, Loss and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre on W. 43rd St. This play, written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, is a collection...
The New York Yankees are sitting atop the AL East with a record of 20-13. However, it is not the rival Red Sox, nor the young Baltimore Orioles, but the Tampa Bay Rays that are breathing down the neck of the Yankees with a record of 20-15. The Rays lost key players such as...
Whether the topic is poor performance in school or juvenile crime, the issues of no father in the home, teenage mothers or grandparents or others as guardian immediately surface, the composition of today’s families become the focus rather than the needs of the child. The appearance of families documents the social revolution of this...
Although there is great fun in skewering the Bloomberg Administration like a shish kebab at a Halal stand, there are a few things in which I agree with our billionaire mayor. Among these items is Hizzoner’s fanatical approach to putting pedestrian-friendly streetscapes and bike lanes around the city. It almost makes the city civilized....
Nazim, my 10-year-old grandson asked why they didn’t want to show bin Laden’s pictures. This question led to my sharing my dismay with killing and revenge. While we both felt sympathy for the September 11th victims, we also sympathized with the countless victims of wars period, those in other countries. Nazim suggested the Armed...
John Leguizamo is Amazing in One-Man Broadway Show– If you want to have an amazing time at the theater and are ready for a completely adult experience, then you need to go and see “Ghetto Klown”, the one man show written by and starring John Leguizamo at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. Fisher Stevens...
I was just about to bite into a sausage and egg sandwich at my regular breakfast bodega joint when who should grab the seat next to me at one of the makeshift tables, but my good friend and fellow journalist, “Hollering” Harry. “I’ve had it with that Dennis Walcott,” said Harry, tearing up...
