In fall, 2019, I set out for the West Village in a monsoon. It was the last night of a small, culturally significant exhibit that I wanted to catch. At the designated address, I walked into a darkened courtyard, seemingly the patio of a shuttered restaurant on the far side of the enclosure, certainly not a gallery.
The T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s first poll for 2021 is dedicated to favorite domestic destinations: Cities, Towns and Sites. We felt this would be an appropriate theme as traveling to domestic destinations is slowly opening up.
I left behind a museum devoted to one comedic icon to pursue a more subdued testament to another: From the zany and frenzied Lucille Ball and her museum in Chautauqua to the more philosophic and observational humor of Mark Twain.
Ekwa Msangi’s directorial debut, Farewell Amor is a tender story about an immigrant family facing new beginnings. Essentially a three-hander, the finely fleshed out characters are brought to life by Msangi and the stirring performances of the principal actors. It’s time for the character’s rediscovery and director Msangi divides the film into three segments to reflect the adjustments each character …
"You’re going to a WHAT?” asked my friend apprehensively. Yup. An hotel. Three of them actually for a total of six days as part of an Empire State Road Trip in upstate New York in early September, sponsored by the Harbor Hotels Collection.
When the couple, there for their 20th visit, commented that it was the first time they had taken the house tour – one of the staples of the Mohonk Mountain House experience – I asked what they had been doing all those years. Liz and Dan Gleason from Haddon Heights, NJ replied: “There’s just so much to do all the time, you just can’t fit it all in."
T-Boy Society of Film & Music's latest poll is dedicated to the Friendliest Destinations in the World. As you can see from our member’s selections it could be a village, town, province, state, region or even a neighborhood within a destination. We felt it appropriate to have a positive, feel good segment as opposed to all the ongoing negative news that we are bombarded with on a daily basis.
I wonder if I could take your mind off COVID-19 for a few minutes to tell you about Lee Stockner, a very special young man in New York who teaches piano primarily to Autistic children.
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