Summer Reading: Part 1

VISITING OLD HAUNTS This week we are returning to the scene of past crimes—no, not crimes—just past lives.  Coming to Bethlehem for an event at Lehigh University let us re-explore Bethlehem’s Main Street and its burgeoning dining scene.  New restaurants midst old familiar ones (such as Edge, still excellent) and lots of sidewalk seating.  On …

Manhattan Inside: Films & Books

The rainy gray weather of the past week kept us inside, and we focused on seeing newly released films, heavy ones with religion at the core, but also the somewhat frothy Book Club.  We took the 6 line from 59th Street station down to Bleecker Street and the Angelika Film Center where we saw three …

Around Manhattan: Sculpture & Food

HUMAN BODY SCULPTED Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body.  This exhibit at Met Breuer of people from about 1300 to the present takes up two floors of the museum. Classical sculpture of human figures was done in marble, almost always white.  This exhibit explores examples of white sculpture, but also instances of tinted figures and …

Tidy Tidbits: Flowers, Books, etc.

WARHOL IN THE GARDEN   Continuing their annual tradition of presenting several of an artist’s works and interpreting them in the garden, Selby Gardens this year is focusing on Andy Warhol.  Throughout the garden there are large white square planters filled with magenta and pink impatiens as well as a divided window display of plants …