Donald Trump’s Tax Returns Are Already in Public Records

There are weekly news and opinion stories coming out regarding breakthrough revelations or protests concerning Donald Trump’s failure to make public his tax returns. While we all wait for Wikileaks to succeed in their call for a leak, there are actually already a several dozen publicly available records from Trump’s holdings.


Making Images With Your iPhone

Nearly everyone has some kind of smartphone these days, and since they all have cameras built in to them, nearly everyone takes pictures these days. You don't need to carry a "real" camera anymore. Just use your phone!

The problem is that nearly everyone simply raises their phone to their eye and snaps away. And most people find that very easy, but there is a whole lot more to making good images than to simply record what's in...


Voting: New Hampshire

Even though same-day voter registration is permitted in New Hampshire, one busload of voters pulling into a polling place would create a spectacle that got some eye-popping, jaw-dropping attention. Same-day voter registration for busloads of illegal voters would not happen. It’s that simple.


Press On

 I took this pic during one of my many walks, going west on 41st Street  (on Library Way) toward the main NYC public library on 5th Avenue. The quotes on the bronze plagues embedded in the sidewalk are the words of great authors, thinkers and journalists. These words inspire me and I’m sure they inspire you too. Let us never forget who we are as a nation. Without a free press, our nation will perish. #PressOn


Red Alert!

Red is a scary color that suggests the Red Scare, red alerts, and red herrings. Senator Joseph McCarthy used Red Scare propaganda to attack communism, socialism and radical leftism. Red alerts are deployed by law enforcement as the most dangerous warning of all. And red herrings? Well, you should know what they are, especially if you’ve read mystery novels. They’re false facts cleverly designed to throw you off track, so you never learn who...


This Is How It Always Is – Laurie Frankel

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This Is How It Always Is – Laurie Frankel Flatiron Books – 332 pp - $25.99

   So let’s talk about risk. Is it something you take on, like skydiving? Or something you fend off, with mutual funds and homeowner’s insurance?

   Life – let’s face it – is a risky proposition. But it’s riskier for some people than it is for others.

  Take the transgender population....


Broadway Beat | It’s a Season of Firsts!

 

This season seems like it is bringing more ambitious productions to Broadway than ever before.  If you thought that the creative geniuses of the world would take a break after last year’s Broadway juggernaut, Hamilton, took the world by storm, you were wrong.  This season is breaking more records, bending more rules, and setting more standards than ever before.

There are several “firsts” on Broadway in the...


New Culinary Trends in Food for 2017

 

As a dual certified chef, Certified Executive Pastry Chef and Certified Chef de Cuisine, ACF, for the past 24 years, I have seen the culinary arena from mom and pop places to the most prestigious dining venues all over the world. My one wish is that we not consume more than what is needed to sustain a harmonious balance in nature.

The most important trends for 2017 that you will see emerge on the horizon in the...