Archive for November, 2010

Like every family, we love a good museum. So when San Francisco’s Aquarium of the Bay invited us to take its behind-the-scenes tour, we were ready to go. We’d seen plenty of fish behind glass, but getting to see them up close and personal was a new experience. A welcome note from Katie Schmidt at [Continue]

Greetings from the West Coast! My name is Susan Payton, and Carol has invited me to share my family travels on the other coast! My husband, son (he’s 6) and I spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the world. Why do I love it so much? Well, from Japantown to [Continue]

Tutankamum and The Golden Age of Pharaohs is the latest exhibit to arrive to Discovery Times Square Exposition. It’s the first time in 30 years that the King Tut exhibit has been in New York City, but this time it includes more objects not previously seen during its last visit, as well as a few [Continue]

Every Saturday till December 18, 2010, The Carlyle is hosting a Madeline Tea Party in honor of artist and author Ludwig Bemelmans at Bemelmans Bar, where little ones and their adults can be surrounded by his beautiful murals. Ludwig Bemelmans, creator of the renowned Madeline children’s books was commissioned in 1947 and received a 18- month [Continue]

This year’s Winter’s Eve will take place on Monday, November 29 at 5:30PM with the lighting of the Lincoln Square Holiday Tree in Dante Park at 63rd Street and Broadway. Come with the family and enjoy all entertainment leading up to the actual tree lighting, which this year will be hosted by WABC-TV anchor Sade [Continue]

Looking for something wonderful to do with your family, while giving them a unique cultural experience?  Do like us, and check out the Jazz at Lincoln Center family concert series, Jazz for Young People, with two concerts left in the series. I recently attended “What is Jazz?” presented by the legendary Wynton Marsalis, who along [Continue]

In the early years of my life, my family was very poor. I’m talking tin roof, outhouse, dirt floor, no beds, no running water type of poor. But, despite this, we were never hungry. I remember the poverty, but never hunger. But I know what hunger looks like because when I was a child, she [Continue]

It’s been a week now since the preview of Red Rooster, where I got to meet the fabulous chef Marcus Samuelsson and experience the flavors that we can expect from his new Harlem restaurant. I wrote about the impression that evening left on me over at BlackAtlas.com in Red Rooster Harlem: Embracing Our Culinary Culture. [Continue]

Recently my two little ones and I headed over to our favorite theater  of all time, The New Victory, to catch the performance of Squirm Burpee Circus: A Vaudevillian Melodrama. The cast of four, made up of Mike the Handsome (Mike Huling), Dashing Dave (Dave Clay) and Lovely Little Lolo (Cole Schneider) and the dastardly [Continue]

When I didn’t live in New York City, for one reason or another, I always missed being home for the holidays and the one thing I missed the most about not being home for the holidays was being able to enjoy the amazing window displays. Some of the most famous stores in New York City [Continue]