Broadway never changes. The ages roll by, the calendar flips from year, but Broadway’s antics stay the same. One of the best ways to see how Broadway endures is to watch shows set in bygone times, to see how the trappings change, but little else bothers to. A great example of this is playing right…
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India is a country of truly dazzling color. It has saris in a spectrum of bright shades, gorgeous blue waters on a sandy shore, markets filled with colorful fruits, festivals of colorful statues and flowers, buildings with distinctive red domes, and lush green palm trees. It’s no surprise that India’s cultural cuisine has just as…
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Do you know what this year is? Yes, it’s 2015, but that’s not what we mean. No, it’s not election year. (That’s next year. You’ve got one whole year before you want to hide in a closet to escape all the howling.) It’s the Year of the Goat! The Chinese New Year starts on February…
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Pizza. If we were to build a metaphorical temple to New York cuisine, pizzas would make up both the brick and the mortar of the foundation floor. (Cheese makes a pretty good glue.) With pizza playing such a central role in our food culture, it’s easy to forget we didn’t come up with it. The…
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Let’s talk about beer. (Bet we’ve got your attention now, don’t we?) Brewing beer in America is a long-standing tradition. Even George Washington did it. Small, family-owned breweries have a special place in our patriotic hearts. (And our extremely patriotic stomachs.) Beer lovers might be curious about the process of creating this most American of…
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Going to the circus conjures up memories for a lot of us. Elephants wearing feathered headdresses, or some person with a death wish stepping into a cage full of angry big cats. (Or the years of therapy bills brought on by the clowns. Let’s just not talk about those.) While plenty of those circuses are…
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Everyone has rotten memories from this last year. We’re not even talking about massive, terrible memories from such things as illnesses or tragedies. Maybe the love of your life blew off a date by telling you he had to go wash his cat. Could be, you took a ferry other than Seastreak and are still…
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Hating Christmas automatically qualifies you as a social outcast. Just as the green guy up above Whoville. The poor fellow has the noisiest neighbors in all the world, especially when the calendar flips over to the holiday season. There he is, struggling with a heart condition (it’s two sizes too small), while the people down…
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Seastreak Shuttle Bus Goes to Atlantic Highlands New York is the City That Never Sleeps, but now and then, some of us might like to catch a nap. Others would love a change of scenery, but don’t want to go too far or spend too much. Weekend wanderers, Seastreak has your back. Now you can…
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Trains are as much a part of New York life as our Seastreak ferries. New Yorkers are a people on the move, after all, and they’ve been riding the rails for decades. In all the time that locomotives have moved along tracks, the train has migrated into our holiday traditions, and become one of the…
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