A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR FOR OUR TIME, author/therapist/ex-monk Thomas Moore‘s new book advocates that old cliche — follow your heart —when it comes to career satisfaction. “A Life at Work” ($24.95, Broadway) uses personal anecdotes, alchemical theory and feel-good messages to emphasize what we all learned in high school but have all forgotten: If you’re not [...]
ART LOVERS, listen up: Works by D.C. favorites such as Tim Tate, Colby Caldwell and Amy Lin can be bought at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for just one crisp Benjamin. No joke.It’s all part of Art Anonymous, a mysterious guessing game in which eagle-eyed art collectors sifting through unsigned work can score a bargain [...]
Erie Times-News Published July 27, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman All the world may be a stage, but these kids aren’t merely players. There was acting, yes, but also the trying on of costumes, running amok in the theater, attending workshops and, at one point, drumming on the floor to illustrate Shakespearean meter. It’s all part [...]
Erie Times-News Published July 7, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman The 12 wedding cakes Kevin Horton created this week are the most he has ever done solo. Once he decorated 14 cakes in a day, but that wasn’t when he had to do the baking and washing up by himself. “I have to do what I [...]
Erie Times-News Published July 6, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman Their cupboards went bare then, but not this year. Members of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, masterminds behind the Greek Festival in Erie, are so committed to hospitality that when they ran out of food in 1989, the first year, they went home and made more. After [...]
Erie Times-News Published July 5, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman Road trip checklist: Suitcases: check. Snacks: check. Camera: check. Magic wand to prevent cries of “I’m bored!” from the back seat: Um … put a hold on that. Though there’s no easy solution to backseat boredom, a little planning goes a long way. Whether you’re a [...]
Erie Times-News Published June 25, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman The spirited 18-year-old was unsure how to pronounce “Henri Cartier-Bresson, ” one of the fathers of modern photography, but she knew she liked his work. And the work of her parents, Barb and Mike Priestap, of Photogenesis Photography on West 26th Street. And the work of [...]
Erie Times-News Published June 16, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman First, Jennifer Reichert lost her cell phone. Then one day, when she was in class, Reichert’s mother-in-law fell and dislocated her hip. “My husband had the baby (Ryan), and he was supposed to pick Casey (their 10-year-old son) up from school,” said Reichert, 30, of Millcreek. [...]