I’m hopelessly compromised in this debate (deep Jersey roots back to the 1600s, lots of beloved relatives still there, yet just as smug about New Jersey as any New Yorker). But most of all, I’ve never actually lived there. So for my Tantrum, I’m calling in my good friend, art-n-culture journalist Carly Berwick, who is …
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I know we like to gripe about our gripey colleague Theodore, but the man is unusually devoted to his craft. He is not only writing a book about Crypto-Jews; he actually helped create one yesterday. We don’t know her full name, but we are pretty sure her first name is Ellie. We believe all went well with …
On the day of Halloween, we took our kids to MOVE! at MoMA PS1, a weekend-long series of performances that brought together two things that don’t occupy a lot of my (limited) brainspace: high art and high fashion. I would like to say that we did this because we are the kind of New York parents …
Yesterday, I wrote about my new infatuation with one-pot cooking, a madness inspired in part by Roger Ebert’s recent book, The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker (now in paperback, from Andrews McMeel Publishing). It may seem counterintuitive: a book about cooking from someone who hasn’t been able …
