The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
NEWARK -- Marion Wilson doesn’t look at art the way most people do. Faced with a gorgeous depiction of a sunset from an American Romantic painter, the Newark high school student had one major criticism. "The yellow in the sunset...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Martin Filler Jacqueline Kennedy during the filming of her White House tour, 1962 (from Dream House: The White House as an American Home , Acanthus Press) Presidents of the United States have enough to worry about, but an ill-timed makeover of the White House can readily become a political liability. After the Panic of 1837, an opposition-party Congressman accused President Martin van Buren of transforming...
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
"Dream House: The White House as an American Home,” by Ulysses Grant Dietz and Sam Watters, describes the history of the presidential residence, and how changes made to it have reflected Americans' changing ideals about what a home should be.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring."
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring."
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Author accompanies fans visiting the landmarks fictionalised in his novels Taking in the landmarks of his novels, from Weequahic Park in The Plot Against America to Goodbye, Columbus's Newark Museum, the Philip Roth bus tour is a must for fans visiting his stomping ground of Newark. But graduates of Weequahic High School were given an extra bonus this weekend when the author himself joined the tour...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu likely won't get the network of new biofuel research labs he wanted. That's because Congress has loaded an energy-spending bill with...
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Energy Secretary Chu set out this year to address the U.S.'s energy future with a network of new research labs. But lawmakers have drafted their own blueprint.
Serge the Concierge (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Well not quite a whole night, a great way to spend the evening though. The closest many people get to...
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The other day I received some information on two events taking place in Newark at the end of October that I wanted to share with you all. You can read the information that I received below – if anyone decides to go to these events, please feel free to send me a report to [...]
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
A tango and a horror musical, singers Eva Ayllón and Alex Cuba, the opening of two exhibits by Cuban artists and "Latin Music USA," a four-hour PBS special on the rise of our música. This and more this week in New York.
Serge the Concierge (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
With many people experiencing tough times and pinching pennies, besides the pocket book issue what could be better for the...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Tisch School of Art's Gulf and Western Gallery 721 Broadway, 212-998-1930 Greenwich Village September 1 - October 18, 2009 Web Site The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced its first fall show will be Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works—including black and...
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
First Architect to Be Nominated; Nomination Championed by AIA-NJ The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) announced Sept. 15 that architect Michael Graves, FAIA, of Princeton, N.J., has been nominated for its Class of 2010. Graves’ nomination was championed by the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (NJ-AIA). Graves -- the first architect to be nominated -- was nominated in...
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