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Ralph Gardner Jr.What do you visualize when you think of a mushroom farm? You probably don’t, at least I didn’t, until a few weeks ago because I didn’t realize that mushroom farming was a thing. -
WAMCGrammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet brings its new program, Cinematic Refuge -- a thematic concert that explores the intersection of classical chamber music and film scoring, specifically focusing on composers who found creative or personal refuge in their work, often related to themes of freedom from oppression -- to Tanglewood’s Linde Center in Lenox, Mass., tonight at 7pm.
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My celebration of Shabbat, the traditional Jewish Sabbath, is a rather sedate, internal affair: long Friday night dinners with friends and family, leading worship at my synagogue on Saturday, and catching up on reading or a nap before Sabbath’s end on Saturday night. -
The big news last week was the election results. By and large, it was a good election day for Democrats across the nation. Here in New York, Democrats won in many parts of the state. For example, Democrats picked up control of the Onondaga County Legislature, a feat that they have not accomplished in almost half a century.
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Dick Cheney died last week, and that has created some confusing feelings for a lot of people. On the one hand, plenty of folks view Cheney as a uniquely negative force in American politics and on the world stage.
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Perhaps because of the many holidays in November it is a slow month in theater. But what is available is well-worth attending.
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If you want to know what’s wrong with civilization look no further than forest bathing. -
I stayed up to watch the election results and was rewarded with evidence that the “sleeping giant” --- the American people --- had finally awakened to the danger that Trump and Trumpism poses to our society.
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English folk-rock pioneer Richard Thompson brings his well-crafted songs and his virtuosic guitar-playing to the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., tonight at 8pm.
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Our collective future depends on what is happening in our classrooms. That’s not exaggeration — it’s fact. Because the lessons taught there shape how young people see their place in the world — and their power to change it.
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I get it. Basically, once every four years I do a commentary right after an election, and depending on the gravity of the moment, it might feel a bit vapid to drone on about who just won a football game or drafted a point guard.
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Off to a meeting in Washington, I slipped and fell in a D.C. hotel over a month ago, breaking my left femur. The ambulance took me to the hospital where President Reagan was treated after being shot by a would-be assassin.
