Tidy Tidbits: Movies & Medical Mystery

This week we got to two new films and I finished a long and totally absorbing historical novel, The Gilded Hour, set in NYC in 1883. MOVIE TIME Florence Foster Jenkins I will go see Meryl Streep in almost anything and this is a good, not great, movie.  Florence was a real person and Streep …

Tidy Tidbits: Latest Viewing & Reading

We have returned to hot and humid Florida and that means late afternoon trips to the pool, an occasional film, catching up on our favorite TV series, and more reading.  It’s too hot to linger outdoors! CINEMA We went to see Indignation on Labor Day afternoon and the audience was all seniors with a few exceptions.  Perhaps …

Manhattan: Culture Notes

They say good things come in threes, so here you have a play, a film, and a novel.  All deserving of attention, and at least two, of kudos. BRILLIANT THEATER Last week we saw Hamilton and it lived up to all the hype. We were seated in the 3rd row of the mezzanine (best seats I could …

Round-up: Books & Film

Books My recent reading has ranged from the very serious to the quite serious to the more frivolous. Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor. Sound depressing, but it wasn’t. Yes, Ms. Fechtor did suffer a brain aneurysm at the tender age of 28, but her optimistic spirit …