New York City is teeming with cultural offerings, so much that it can be difficult at times to organize all of the things you want to do, see, taste and experience in Manhattan. Sometimes you might stumble upon a great street fair with a particularly good gyro, while other times, you’ll plan and plot out 
At 51, New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen has hit the ubiquitous halfway point for age. But instead of getting older quietly, Cohen decided to write a biography of middle age in her first book, In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (Scribner). She starts at the beginning, roughly a century ago, when middle 
It’s no secret that cats don’t like going to the vet. They are creatures of habit; they like peace and quiet, and being shoved in a carrier, loaded into a car or on the subway and dragged into a waiting room with barking dogs and funny smells is pretty much dead last on their list 
