CHICAGO When Mark Grace first got around the Cubs’ big league squad, it took him some time to get to know shortstop Shawon Dunston. Dunston is soft-spoken and private by nature, so building a rapport was going to require patience.
Grace found a shortcut.
“I got to know him
Three days after New York City s public design commission voted unanimously to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the city council chambers owing to the fact that he owned hundreds of slaves during his lifetime, President Joe Biden took a different tack.
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I recently turned seventy and thought of my parents who are no longer here to share my milestone birthday. I think about my parents almost daily and “talk” to them several times per week. In a recent Yizkor Sermon Rabbi Neil Zuckerman gave me comfort when he said, “Death ends a life but is does not end a relationship; it merely changes the format.” This is one of the most comforting constructs that I have ever encountered.
Lois Kirschenbaum, the ultimate opera superfan, dies at 88
By Corey Kilgannon New York Times,Updated April 9, 2021, 4:57 p.m.
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Lois Kirschenbaum backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in June 2012.JULIE GLASSBERG/NYT
For more than a half-century, nearly every prominent singer to perform at New York Cityâs Metropolitan Opera could expect to be approached backstage afterward by a wispy woman in thick glasses, who held piles of memorabilia to be autographed while she praised their performance in a raspy Brooklyn accent.
That was Lois Kirschenbaum, one of New Yorkâs biggest and longest-standing opera buffs and a nightly staple at the opera since the late 1950s, before Lincoln Center was built, when the Met was located in Midtown.