Edible Memories: At Le Café Arnold, Chicken Flambé and V8 juice

European elegance—slightly ersatz—at a French establishment that was once a mainstay on Central Park South…


Edible Memories: R. Gross, a Garment Center Mainstay

High-end glatt kosher, doling out latkes and kreplach to the Seventh Avenue rag trade By…


I’ll Never Forget … Ella Fitzgerald’s Final Concert at Carnegie Hall, 1991

Even in fragile condition, even with one missed note, the great American jazz singer continued…


Job at Alphabet City’s Connelly Theater: An Ecstatic Review

Spellbinding. Nothing short of phenomenal. So says our reviewer, George Blecher, of this 80-minute two-hander…


Rooms With a View in France: Aligned by the Stars

Hotel-ranking stars, that is, in Paris and points south By Stacia Friedman   Sighting: From…


I’ll Never Forget … Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations

A concert violist and pianist zeroes in on a beloved Late Romantic Era work, complete…


I’ll Never Forget … My Friendship with Seiji Ozawa

Rehearsing Mozart and Bizet with the late Japanese superstar conductor in Tanglewood and Tokyo By…


Edible Memories: Lunch at Lüchow’s with Lauritz Melchior

1965: Dining with an outsize opera tenor at downtown New York’s bastion of German cuisine…


I’ll Never Forget … The Grateful Dead and Summer of Love

In 1969, it was all psychedelic joy with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane at…


I’ll Never Forget … Schubert and Diamond

This classical music lover appreciates pop sung with warmth and sincerity too By Roberta Hershenson…