Month: October 2017

In my summer of reuniting with long lost friends, I have made another stop.  Though we also went to the same K-12 magnet school for a couple of years, I became friends with Bethany Bezdecheck when we did theatre (and

On Friday night we were supposed to go to Long Island with Amanda’s friend Micah, but then I won the lottery for tickets to Measure for Measure at the Public, and Micah insisted that we take them.  We met him

Do you remember my artist friend, Ryan Frank, who I met up with in Paris?  He’s back in NYC where he normally lives and invited me to a show of his… on a boat! Amanda met me after work.  We

As you may have noticed, I’ve been seeing a lot of shows lately.  How do I do it without breaking the bank?  With time and flexibility in New York, I’ve learned how to play the game– and I’ll share it

I moved to New York the Wednesday before September 11th, 2001.  The planes hit the morning of my second day of school.  My mom called me from California, waking me up, to tell me that a plane had flown into

Tuesday morning I spent half an hour clicking refresh on my phone trying to get rush tickets for the Portuguese Kid. I was unsuccessful.  But then, later in the day I got an email saying I’d won the lottery for

On Sunday I decided to go for a walk.  The Little Red Lighthouse showed up on google maps and I wanted to find it.  I walked out of Amanda’s apartment, turned right on 181st Street and walked toward the water.

On my journey to see Hamilton the musical (I’m still working on getting tickets), I have read the long book that the musical was based on, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, I have devoured the book written about the musical,

I hesitated to share this story because I find it so funny that I don’t know if I can do it justice in writing.  But I will try. While Amanda and I were waiting in line to enter the venue