The Art of Life

Bergdorf-Goodman Pulls Out All the Stops for NY Fashion Week with Classic Literary Window Displays

Sometimes you can spot a great work of art when you lease expect it. That’s what we encountered during New York Fashion Week earlier this month when, while strolling down Fifth Avenue and taking in the sights and sounds of the Big Apple, we passed the display windows of Bergdorf-Goodman.

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My son and his fiancé went to see Bob Dylan at White River State Park last weekend in Indianapolis. When we skyped with them the next morning over coffee, I asked them how the Bob concert had been the night before. They glanced at each other and then back at me, and Adam, looking as if he were betraying the trust of a friend said, “I think Bob is tired.”

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Crestview High School’s Lip Dub 2012


The first time I saw the red lettering of the Empire Hotel on the roof-top of the recently renovated hotel near the Lincoln Center in Manhattan it sparked a form of Déjà vu inside of me, but I couldn’t quite place it. Here’s the gossip…


In the daytime it’s grungy, small and unimpressive. Take one look at the words Beauty & Essex scribbled over the door and you might pass it off as a beauty shop that was forgotten after hitting its 1950’s peak.


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