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My trip to Al-Qaeda

I did not invent this brilliant title, it’s the name of a one-man show currently playing at the Culture Project in SoHo. Here is the New York Times’ review. Lawrence Wright, whose book The Looming Tower has generally been acclaimed as one of the notable...

Tall tales at the Union Square Cafe

How remiss of me not to write about catching up recently with my former colleague and good friend Annette, who was passing through New York en route to a pro bono law conference. Given that dinner was on the company credit card, I was a little more expansive in my...

Signs of Spring

At last, a glimmer of hope that the “best of the worst” of winter is over. I have just arrived back in my apartment, still dewy from my walk in Prospect Park, with the following pieces of evidence that Spring is about to, well, turn into a verb. The ice in...

A comforting cup of Global Soul

One of the best things about my immediate neighbourhood – apart from the park, the museum, the library, the express subway stations, and the couple who launder my clothes for a ridiculously low price each week – is Cheryl’s Global Soul. This fabulous...

Cat plays piano

Forgive this indulgence, but I could not resist sharing with you this surprisingly musical performance from Nora, the piano-playing cat. I found it on my favourite website Arts & Letters Daily, but it originated on YouTube. Watching her at the keyboard made me...
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