Last Friday, my friend Josh and I went to the Maplewood Arts Walk, where we had the pleasure of watching a very unique trio of women perform a dance that involved large wooden sticks, jingle bells sewn to their knees, and funny hats.
They frolicked through the performance space to live violin, wooden flute, accordion and guitar music, clanking their [...]
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Get your mind out of the gutter! I’m talking about 12 inches of the best meat in the Midwest. Not that kind of meat, people. It’s Saturday night, and I’m craving pizza. Specifically, I’m craving a slice of “Not Phil’s” pizza in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Public art isn’t something I expected to see much of in rural Missouri, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of murals I’ve seen in towns I’ve explored since relocated here earlier this year. I didn’t live in NYC in 2001, so it didn’t occur to me that I could have seen the World Trade Towers from my apartment until I saw these spotlights last year from my bedroom window. The Tour de Missouri is finally here. At long last, I’ve stopped procrastinating, and updated my URL. In the realm of the things MO has to offer, please consider the cost of dry cleaning, and the friendliness of the people at stores here. Cases in point: 1. I took one suit, one blouse, four pair of pants, two skirts, and a blazer for dry cleaning yesterday. Not only was my bill less than $40.00, [...] Laundry in New York… How do you do laundry in New York City? Since most apartments don’t have washers and dryers in the building, you can take your laundry to the laundromat yourself, you can drop it off for pick-up service at the laundromat, or you can pay to have someone pick up and drop off your [...] I had never walked up Broadway to 23rd street from Union Square, so I felt like I was on a mini-adventure, not sure what sat between 18th and 23rd along Broadway. |
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