A Hothouse Survival Tale

Written by admin on August 11, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Sweating buckets when the AC goes out during a heat wave By Ben Krull I turned the knob and nothing happened. Don’t panic, I told myself, as sun poured through the blinds. It was a 90-degree Sunday earlier this summer and the window air-conditioner in my studio apartment was dead. First came denial: the four-year-old
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Weddings, Family and Heat Waves

Written by admin on August 4, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Our culture’s hyper-individualism is harming us all By Bette Dewing Weddings—ah, but what’s needed is a great revival of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s wedding message to Diana and Charles; it applies to our culture’s hyper-individualism too: “Any marriage which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom gaze obsessively at one another,
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Gloria Allred: A Fighting Spirit

Written by admin on August 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

The women’s rights lawyer’s autobiography leaves me feeling empowered By Susan Braudy I’ll stop cracking my knuckles, gentle reader, to tell you how powerful I feel after reading the inspirational page-turner Fight Back and Win by Gloria Allred, the world-changing women’s rights lawyer from California. Your diarist is no slouch either; she has corrected history
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New York Pols are all too human

Written by admin on August 4, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Lawmakers act as though laws don’t apply to them By Alan Chartock The more we watch these powerful folks in politics, the clearer it is that many of their actions can be explained by “rationalization,” the term we all learned back in our basic Psychology 101 course. For example, when Charlie Rangel is accused of
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Going Lean in Hard Times

Written by admin on July 28, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Time for New York politicians to stop ‘porking’ out By Alan Chartock OK, class, let’s talk about pork. Pork, of course, is not kosher. Like many, I suspect one of the reasons it was listed in the biblically proscribed list was that if not properly handled, it caused diseases like trichinosis. Once that worm got
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From Mess to Masterpiece

Written by admin on July 28, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

How ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ rose from the ashes to become the quintessential New York film. By Lorraine Duffy Merkl Last week I saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s again for the first time. Even though I can practically recite every line by heart, I viewed the classic with fresh eyes when it played at the Sunset Film
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The Pigeon On The Ledge

Written by admin on July 22, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

How I found a companion in the most common of places By Susan Braudy I run down Broadway despite the heat. I left my umbrella in a bus and I am determined to get home before the rain hits. The black cloud overhead is getting blacker. It’s four in the afternoon but it looks like
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The Scourge of Alzheimer’s

Written by admin on July 21, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Finding a cure for that most insidious disease By Bette Dewing Why am I crying, I wondered, as I read Juliet Macur’s New York Times story, “Sensing His Own Mortality,” about George Steinbrenner. More important to me than the avalanche coverage given Yankee baseball owner George Steinbrenner’s dying was how at 74, he spoke “with
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Lessons from Shakespeare in the Park

Written by admin on July 16, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Life of an actor in New York is no picnic By Lorraine Duffy Merkl “Is this the one with Al Pacino?” That was the question du jour directed to those of us waiting on line to see Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare in the Park. Confirmation was needed because the play alternates nights with the
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The Reluctant Visitor

Written by admin on July 16, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Memories of summer camp from two perspectives By Ben Krull I worked myself into a frenzy thinking about the tasty food and heartwarming reunions. But not everyone shared my enthusiasm for visiting day at summer camp. From the ages of nine through 15, I spent my summers at Camp Scatico in upstate New York. I
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