CANstruction: Canned Food Art at the WFC

Canned! Mr Potato Head

When everyone seems to have their hand out, how does a city food bank grab a New Yorker’s attention?

I can’t think of a better way of engaging people in charitable giving than the CANstruction® competition. In CANstruction®, teams of designers, architects or engineers create exhibits using canned [...]

Tribeca Grill becomes a Standard

My first visit to Tribeca Grill was sometime during my first year in New York, in 1992 or 1993.

I was overly impressed that Robert DeNiro owned the restaurant that I WAS EATING IN. I really  thought DeNiro might be standing quietly at the end of the bar, notice me and my friends and [...]

The Confines of New York City

At some unidentifiable point, after I lived in New York City a long while, I started talking about leaving. I would say, if it weren’t so cold in Wisconsin in the winter, I would have already moved back to Milwaukee.

The sore point and source of my complaints always boils down [...]

Mamet. Race. On Broadway.

Attitudes about race from both sides of the fence expose themselves in Race, David Mamet’s play at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.

The structure is simple:  a single set with four characters and an unseen fifth character, a red-sequined dress that the audience only sees on the cover of their Playbill.

The action [...]

Winter in Battery Park City, New York

Down in Battery Park City, as in much of downtown Manhattan, the wind is on steroids. Strong, and stoked by tall buildings and narrow streets, the winter wind saves its best work for west of the big highway where the Hudson River adds its two bucks.On any given day, the air feels at least [...]