It was almost exactly a year ago that Mother Nature gave us a very different gift: the worst ice storm that this area of the Hudson Valley had seen in the past quarter century.
Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment
Bruce Springsteen played the last concert ever to be played in Giants Stadium on Friday, October 9. The Stadium is slated for demolition this year.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 08.23.2009 | Entertainment
Everybody dies. Why, from a spiritual point of view, are celebrity deaths such an extra big deal?
James Arthur Ray | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment
Michael's life, when considered within the broader scope of highly creative people throughout history, was not really that unusual after all.
Ronald Maxwell | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Obama, to his everlasting honor, and in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, on Memorial Day just two weeks ago sent a wreath to Moses Ezekiel's monument to the Confederate dead.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living
President Barack Obama isn't the only 40-something Abraham Lincoln admirer in Washington, D.C. We each love his way with words and his prairie populist provenance, but let's just say the 16th president is my historical boyfriend.
Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home
Recently in New York I went to a preview performance of a rarely staged piece of music theater called "The Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz. In ...
John Seery | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
Walt Whitman, speaking from beyond the grave, with an eye toward our current ills.
Ben Fractenberg | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
I received a text message the night of Obama's historic victory thanking me for my involvement in the campaign. "This victory is all because of you," ...
John Lundberg | Posted 12.03.2008 | Living
Walt Whitman lived in that tenuous time before flag pins when threshing the patriots from the terrorist-loving socialists was a difficult business. S...
John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
My grandmother passed away last week, and my family asked if I would read a poem during the service. While I wanted to do it for them, I didn't want to do it.
Albert Imperato | Posted 12.07.2009 | New York