la vie boheme

The scene we saw in rehearsal  (source) In the final exciting instalment of a weekend of opera in New York City -- a peek backstage on ...

Marina Serafin and Alice Coote: 'Der Rosenkavalier'  (source) A weekend in New York is always a great opportunity for a weeken...

In the 30-storey high Rockefeller Tower in  New York City  the best-known tenant is the television broadcaster NBC. Your blogger is not...

Deep in Manhattan... (source) On a recent visit to New York City for four days, I ate nothing but Italian. Granted, I was visiting with ...

Your brave correspondent at Willis Tower "Skydeck Ledge", Chicago. Trusting Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. There's recentl...

Detail, Marc Chagall's 'America Windows'. Wandering through the wonderful Chicago Art Institute the other day, followed the ...

(source) In 1893 the soot-blackened, hog-killing, rather foul and grimy -- but vibrant -- city of Chicago beat out New York and Washing...