Recent Articles
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Jazz Bird Flying High
Delightfully charming and easygoing, one can’t help but smile at hearing a young voice not far from 30 that is reminiscent of times that have long passed. With long, dark hair and a spirit of light, she exudes...
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A Ghostly Town
Far Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York is crawling with people come summer. The convenience of getting there by train, away from traffic jams, draws the city crowd.
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Eating My Way Down the Bosphorus Shore
The weather had turned warm in Istanbul. It was spring, the season after the one that sends uninviting gusts of wind off all three bodies of water that grip the city like fingers.
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‘Think Like a Man’ Ruminates On a Funny and Logical Approach to Love
Sometimes finding your ideal soul mate is like playing a game of chess; you develop the best strategy, a specific set of moves to obtain your goal. In executing it, you try to move past any defenses without putting...
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Beauty And The Pleats
Dancer Hilary Easton and Fashion Designer Cynthia Rowley Team Up For ‘The Heart is Like a Toboggan’
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The Flips and Flops of Summer 2012
Summer is upon us and so is a plethora of Hollywood blockbusters. With a broad range of films for everyone in all genres, it’s important to know which films have the potential to deliver the entertainment goods and...
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‘The Five-Year Engagement’ Is Nothing Short of a Cliché
The best movie marketing campaigns are those that capture a film’s essence in a simple poster or catchy tagline. In the case of The Five-Year Engagement, the new comedy starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, the...
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‘Nobody Else But You’: The Reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe
Imagine Raymond Chandler, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, and JFK showing up in a rural wasteland near the French-Swiss border. Add a few snowdrifts, a rundown hotel, an unsolved murder, and writer’s block.
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Seeing the World through Different Eyes
A young girl holds her luminous yellow dress above the small tide of the ocean shore, a firm contrast against the gray-blue water and the white-encrusted waves that seep forward relentlessly toward the dark-haired...
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Living the Renaissance Life, Part One: A Conversation with Traci Slatton
“Some moments in life stand out with hallucinatory intensity, shaping everything that comes afterward: the birth of a child, a victory earned after steady, hard work; a bitter loss or humiliation; a marriage...
