Birth Place: Red Bank NJ
Denver Arts & Venues has announced the public reopening of the McNichols Civic Center Building with three new summer art exhibitions in conjunction with Major League Baseball All-Star Week.
The question pops up often, in variations on this theme: 'Which three writers, dead or alive, would you invite to a literary dinner party?' My answer has long been the same: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau at Emerson's house in Concord, Mass.
One of my favorite summer reads this year has been Slow Art, which was born from Reed's personal response, over the course of eight years, to Edouard Manet's painting Young Lady in 1866.
I'm not adept at taking advice, good or otherwise.
If you are reading this piece, you probably know that Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, a 'national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country.
The NCAA college basketball tournament, aka March Madness, has traditionally been my marker of Spring.
The Adelphi Orchestra, celebrating its 62nd season of 'Music for All' presents a Grand Mother's Day concert Sunday May 8th in New Jersey.
Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) Academic Theatre Company will present an original adaptation of Shakespeare's classic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Kelsey Theatre.
Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) Academic Theatre Company will present an original adaptation of Shakespeare's classic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Kelsey Theatre.
Each year when Veterans Day approaches, I think again of my father, who landed at Utah Beach two months after D-Day with the 243rd Field Artillery Battalion and died in 1971, taking his memories with him.
I'm not big on guilt reads ('You mean you've neverread.
As the 2016 presidential campaign gains momentum, one thing you can count on during the ceremonial browbeating and breast-beating competition will be a concurrent surge in 'rant lit' books.
Start with the last two books I've read.
I will never know enough about music, but I'm not inclined to read books devoted exclusively to the subject.
As a big fan of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, I'm eagerly anticipating this Sunday's premiere of the BBC adaptation on PBS Masterpiece.
Blend Shakespeare's grandest romantic tragedy with Prokofiev's gorgeous ballet and it's time to experience a whole new "Romeo and Juliet.
Although red carpet interviewers never ask the question we really want answered (Who are you reading?), the Academy Awards do remind us of the important role books play in the film business.
High on my list of 1,000 things I'll never do before I die is rock climbing, but I was absolutely mesmerized last month during the 19-day quest by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson to conquer the summit of El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite Park.
Is that a soundtrack I hear? My reading life this winter has somehow become a ticket to a film-ish book festival.
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