The place to be last Saturday for any New Yorker with even a smidgen of rhythm was Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s Alphabet City. With 159 dance troupes, 10,000 dancers and probably an equal number of spectators, the 5th Annual Continue reading DanceFest 2011 takes over Tompkins Square Park
My friend Drew just returned from a tour of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster site. Most of us won’t be able to recall where we were on April 26, 1986 but for 300,000 people, it must have felt like Continue reading Chernobyl’s 25th Anniversary: Why You Should Care
Built in 1926 with federal dollars, Rt. 66 connected Chicago to Los Angeles and ushered in the automobile age. John Steinbeck dubbed it the “Mother Road”. Okies used it to escape the dust bowl of middle America during the Great Continue reading New Yorker Turns Weekend Road Warrior on Rt. 66
Need to shake off the winter doldrums? A lightening quick trip to the state called The Land of Enchantment will provide a 180-degree shift in attitude to reawaken your senses. Here is a sampling of what you can do in Continue reading Four days in an enchanted land: a visit to New Mexico
