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Hamilton Broadway musical - review and discussion

Hamilton Broadway musical – review and discussion

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, or have talked to me in real life, you know that I’ve been a tiny bit obsessed with a new musical called Hamilton, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also stars in the show as Alexander Hamilton. The show’s premise? The life (and death) of founding father Alexander Hamilton, told through a variety of musical styles (from Broadway to hip-hop, with a…

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Top 5 reasons I know it’s fall (and a recipe)

5. The calendar told me so. 4. I wore jeans and a sweater to the park on Sunday and I was still a little cold. 3. My television shows are back. 2. I saw an actual pumpkin on someone’s front stoop. 1. I baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch for no reason on Saturday. My apartment stayed fairly cool this whole summer (don’t ask me how, that wasn’t true the last two summers) but I still didn’t…

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#baking #cookies #fall #nyc #recipe

Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park -- Sunday, October 4

Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park — Sunday, October 4

I have a lot of favorite places in New York. Some of them I go to all of the time and others I don’t get to visit nearly enough. The Cloisters in Ft. Tryon Park falls into the second category — I can’t remember the last time I was there! In case you haven’t heard of The Cloisters, it’s an offshoot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art which features art and architecture (including the building…

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#cloisters #ft tryon park #Manhattan #Medieval Festival #nyc #things to do

Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and Bed Bath & Beyond

Confession: 99.9% of the time I do not miss living in suburbia, but every once in a while, for a minute or two, my hometown looks pretty good. Why? Well, its easy proximity to my favorite fall activities tops the list. But second on that list: the fact that all the stores you might need for inexpensive apartment stuff are just a quick car ride away. Soon after I moved here, I discovered the next…

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#Manhattan #nyc #shopping

Check out the 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival

This weekend is the Brooklyn Book Festival and if you’re here and looking for something to do, I highly recommend making a visit to Downtown Brooklyn to check it out. The festival itself is on Sunday, September 20, but there’s also a full day of events on Saturday, September 19, called Children’s Day, and other events this week. Some events are indoors but a lot of them are outside on Cadman…

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#books #Brooklyn #brooklyn book festival #nyc #things to do

Ready for fall

I walked out of my apartment yesterday morning and it felt like fall. There was a freshness to the air that’s missing in summertime, and I breathed it in and thought, YES. I know this isn’t a popular reaction – people on the elevator at work are already bemoaning the fact that the coming of fall means the coming of winter – but I’m ready. After a summer of visits with friends and weekend trips…

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#fall #nyc #seasons

Remembering 9/11

First posted on September 11, 2013. My memories of September 11, 2001, aren’t very clear. I was in eighth grade, and I’m fairly certain I was in history class when we heard. But I can’t remember whether or not we saw any of the coverage on TV, or how they told us, or what they told us. There are some things about middle school that stand out clearly in my memory, but a lot of it is lost, and the…

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Blogiversary #2 - two years of blogging

Blogiversary #2 – two years of blogging

This time of year is all about life anniversaries for me. I moved to New York five years ago and started my first job a few days later. Not quite two years later I changed jobs within my company, and about a year later – two years ago today – I started this blog. (more…)

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Coming soon: Square Dancing in Bryant Park

Mark your calendars for the weekend of September 25-27: square dancing is coming back to Bryant Park! It’s on their calendar so it must be true, and since unlike most of the things I post about, this is a time-sensitive activity, I figured three weeks notice was only fair. That’s plenty of time to get excited, and to figure out which of your friends you might be able to convince to go with you.…

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#Bryant Park #Manhattan #parks #square dancing #things to do

A long weekend in Maine

So apparently a long weekend in Maine is a thing New Yorkers do in the summertime. I knew this, vaguely, from the five summers I’ve been here, but it really became clear this month. Once I was planning a trip to Maine, I started noticing other people were going there too – from NYC bloggers I follow to several of my coworkers. This means you’ve maybe heard about the wonders of Maine already.…

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A glimpse of Maine

I’ve been back from Maine for a week and a half and it feels like much longer. I was only there for four days, but I can’t wait to go back. I want to share more with you about the trip, some of the places we went and things we did, but my bandwidth isn’t quite up to that yet. I’m recovering from this whirlwind of a summer — I would say “how is it almost September already?” but I basically said…

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The Broadway Princess Party and missing things in NYC

So I missed the Broadway Princess Party at 54 Below. I have my excuse ready: I was out of town, and even if I’d been in town, the tickets were pretty pricey. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t bummed when I realized I couldn’t go, because let’s face it, I am a Broadway nerd who was raised on Disney, and princess songs are in my blood. My friend calls Alan Menken her first voice teacher, and it is so,…

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The Wiz at SummerStage

I went to see “The Wiz: A Celebration of Music and Dance” on Wednesday at SummerStage, and it was fabulous. If you haven’t read my interview with Danni Gee, the SummerStage curator for this production, check it out for a little more background. From the minute my friend and I arrived at Rumsey Playfield we could tell that people were excited for this special event, a true celebration of the…

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#central park #musicals #nyc #summerstage #the wiz #theater #things to do

Sneak Peek of The Wiz at SummerStage with curator Danni Gee

Two posts in one day — crazy, I know! But I just had to share with you this awesome interview I did with Danni Gee from SummerStage over email, about tonight’s FREE concert performance of The Wiz! No plans? I’m pretty sure reading this will make you want to come to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park — did I mention it’s free? Tell me a bit about your role with SummerStage. I am the Dance Curator…

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"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" at SummerStage

“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at SummerStage

During the first weeks of my freshman year of college, my roommate turned on some music and I knew the words to every song but had no idea what the name of the band was. It was a weird feeling, right up until I put it together that this was one of the albums – or, probably, cassette tapes – my dad had played on repeat in his gray Oldsmobile when I was probably eight or nine. By the time I was a…

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#beautiful #carole king #central park #Manhattan #nyc #summerstage #theater #things to do

"Hamilton" lotto - #Ham4Ham

“Hamilton” lotto – #Ham4Ham

My friend and I decided to be “Hamilton” groupies last night. If you don’t know what “Hamilton” is, read my post and come back here. Got it? Okay. So “Hamilton” is in previews on Broadway right now, and we have tickets to see it at the end of August. We bought them months ago because we knew the show was going to be big, and we decided on late August because of busy summer schedules and…

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Time and space to be

It’s Tuesday night and I’m home, listening to a song on repeat while I read a book about women writers and being single. I’ve been bouncing back and forth between reading and an IM exchange with my friend, pulling in bits from what I’m reading and connecting them to ongoing conversations about dating and friendship and relationships. We get sidetracked into a quick discussion about Harry Potter…

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