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. […]
The 12th Annual Samuel Waxman Foundation Luncheon returned to Riverpark on Wednesday afternoon, fractalizing a crowd of philanthropists, fashion executives, social figures, and longtime supporters of cancer research for one of the season’s most anticipated charitable gatherings in New York. This year’s Luncheon honored fashion entrepreneur Alexandra Adame and Corcoran real estate broker Mary Slattery for […]
Martin Luther King was a poet who painted towering vistas of hope and unity with his words, but between all the metaphors there was a lot more being conveyed. MLK knew there was a greater force of evil that dwarfed racial division, and that these discriminatory practices were just divide and conquer tactics of an […]
