The Private Eyes of "Finding Vivian Maier"
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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With all due respect to Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the distinction of true detective must go to history sleuth John Maloof, whose documentary Finding Vivian Maier smokes out one of the art world's most intriguing tales. Together with ...
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Raw Pleasure: Chef Stacy Stowers
Monday, March 24, 2014
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The Happy Shake, a delicious, chocolaty crush, is filled with blueberries, cherries and a dab of raw honey along with some coconut oil. Maca, or Peruvian ginseng gives the concoction a nutritional bang that's somewhere between a pick-me-up and an ...
Not Mere Kids' Stuff: Shir Ami's Purim Party for Adults
Thursday, March 13, 2014
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Interviewed by Laura Blum
What costume is your kid wearing for this year's festival of Purim? It's a question Jews around the world are asking one another as they go to celebrate the salvation of Persian Jewry. But in Greenwich's Congregation Shir ...
Curator Elena Pakhoutova Probes "Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine"
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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Ever read The Tibetan Book of the Dead? Or, like me, were you awaiting a prequel for tips on healthy living? The Rubin Museum of Art, to mark its 10th birthday, is doing just that in the form of an exhibition entitled Bodies in Balance: The Art of ...
Bertrand Tavernier's Rendezvous with "The French Minister"
Monday, March 10, 2014
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France's ruling elite has staged its share of psychodrama, but leave it to Bertrand Tavernier‘s new film The French Minister to replay it as farce. Adapted from the bestselling graphic novel Quai D’Orsay – Chroniques Diplomatiques, ...