Category: New York
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CityPASS offers travel/fitness tips
CityPASS sent me these tips on how to help get fit with the use of their passes for New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. This what they say: Here are some examples of how people can make CityPASS part of their vacation fitness plan: Boston — Boston’s CityPASS provides visitors access to…
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Met’s new costume exhibit– Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
How many of us waited in one of those amazingly long lines to view Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, last year’s blockbuster Costume Institute exhibition at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art? Well, it’s that time of year again when the Met launches yet another fabulous exhibit to coincide with its famous celebrity Costume Gala. And this…
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Winners of this year’s James Beard Awards
Check out Grub Street’s piece on this year’s prestigious James Beard Award winners. The ceremony took place in NYC last Monday night. Grub Street lists the winners of all of the categories including: Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH) Bruce Sherman North Pond Chicago Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (D.C., DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)…
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Things to do in NYC this week and this area’s circus performances.
Here’s a list of things to do in NYC this week as published by the New York Times. And don’t forget about the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus that has come to our town until this Sunday. Alex and I enjoyed it-more about this later: 19th Precinct Community Council Festival (Saturday) From noon…
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Celebrity Sighting: Star of Game of Thrones at Penn Station
Beautiful day in Manhattan last Saturday. My family and I escaped the predicted thunderstorms as we walked all around the city under blue skies and in warm 70 degree weather. Tired but happy, we made our way back to Penn Station to take the 5:15 pm train back to Albany-Rensselaer. While waiting in line at…
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Creatures of the Deep-Behind-the-Scenes of the American Museum of Natural History
After attending a preview of the American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light”, a group of other media people and I traveled below the museum’s main floors to take a behind-the-scenes tour of its Department of Ichthyology (fish) that was led by Zachary Baldwin. This fourth year PH.D student showed us what he said…
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American Museum of Natural History- How to Trick a Firefly
After my preview of “Creatures of Light,” at the American Museum of Natural History, I donned my special “behind the scenes” tour badge and quickly followed our guide through a series of stairs and side doors to an area rarely seen by regular patrons. In a small conference room, Marc Branham, Associate Professor Department of…
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Food Network’s “Ten Dollar Dinners”-Where Can We Buy Melissa D’Arabian’s Green Glass Jars?
I wrote a little while ago about my visit to the Food Network. I mentioned that, along with a wonderful lunch prepared by Chef Robert Bleifer (a Union College Grad!) and his staff, I also had the opportunity to see the set of Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa D’Arabian (http://blog.timesunion.com/travelgal/on-the-set-of-the-food-network/2977). I have just been asked…
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Amazing “Creatures of Light” at the American Museum of Natural History
What is bioluminescence? It’s the chemical reaction that creates the glow that emanates from fireflies in a meadow in eastern North America, from the glowworms on the ceiling of Waitomo Cave in New Zealand, and from the unique creatures that have been discovered far below the sea. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of…
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The Mummies of the Albany Institute of History and Art to be Scanned at Albany Med on March 31st
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed visiting the Albany Institute of History & Art. This museum has had so many interesting exhibits over the years, but my favorite will always be its two resident mummies that have been displayed continuously for over 100 years. The mummies will be scanned at Albany Medical Center…
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Travel Gal Kim Swidler 