As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
Pioneer Works, the thought-provoking art gallery in western Red Hook, Brooklyn debuted two exhibitions on February 22. One was interactive and intriguing but perhap too ambitious, and the other was an interesting hodge-podge. My 16 year old daughter and I first checked out “En El Monte”, created by three artists and involving a set of […]
The Council of Aspiring American Fashion Designers (CAAFD) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to bolster aspiring fashion designers and in their own words, “help those emerging designers get a foot in the door.” Chelsea Piers was packed and of the three designers presenting, the first was Mouton Blanc. In French, mouton blanc […]
