Sleeping Giants and Nature Canoes:Outdoors in New Haven
A cornucopia of culture New Haven is famous for many things, we learned during our three-day visit there. Besides being the home of Yale University, New Haven and its surrounding towns offer visitors a cornucopia of historic, cultural, and outdoor experiences that make it a stand-out among communities its size. (read the story...)
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A Queens Summer Residence for the Broadway-Bound
With the beginning of summer just around the corner, the decision on where to send children for summer camp can often be daunting. Luckily, there is a camp for every interest: sports, arts and crafts, and music are just a few. For those who aspire to the performing arts, the stage at the Professional Performing Arts Center of Queensborough Community College (QCC) in Bayside is already set for tapping, singing and much more. (read the story...)
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Marvelous Marco-mania!
If your kids (and you!) have fallen in love with the muppet-like Sushi Baby and Baby Alien, you're familiar with the work of up-and-coming graphic designer, Marco. (read the story...)
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Gone Up In Smoke
The bars on the zoos’ monkey cages are rattling, city unions are on the defensive as the threat of larger layoff cuts loom, and child advocacy groups are bracing themselves for the deep wounds that a $3.4 billion budget gap will impose on core services for the city’s children. Reality is blinding sometimes. (read the story...)
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True Stripes
A good zoo exhibit isn't just improvised by luring lions and tigers through a gate with White Castle hamburgers and turning the key behind them. What makes a zoological exhibit dramatic and relevant is the recreation of the creature's natural habitat — which is exactly what the Wildlife Conservation Society is doing at the Bronx Zoo with its new attraction, Tiger Mountain. (read the story...)
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Senorita Cinderella
In a small way, seeing the new bilingual play Cenicienta/Cinderella will prepare kids for going to the opera. English-speaking children are probably not used to hearing another language at a play, and seeing (and hearing) a familiar tale in another language may open them up to listening to, or even learning, another language. (read the story...)
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Northern Exposure: Family Activities at Wave Hill
Non-New Yorkers may not believe that large grasslands of culture lie within the confines of the concrete Bronx. Native New Yorkers as well might be surprised to hear that over 28 acres of beautiful grounds have served as an educational and learning opportunity for its visitors since 1965. (read the story...)
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Just the (Arty) Facts
When my husband and I first started visiting The Brooklyn Museum, 17 years ago, the place often resembled a tomb, eerily quiet and devoid of life. Over the past years, it has become vibrant, with a new wing (part of the original plan for the museum) and a new grand entrance, still not complete. (read the story...)
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On the Wings of Imagination
On page 11 of “The Bird of Imagining”, there's a marvelously expressive pastel drawing by a kindergarten student, identified only as Klay, from the Children's Workshop School. (read the story...)
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The Land of Enchantment — Family-Style
The art, the culture, the fine dining, the music of Santa Fe. It's without a doubt one of the great cultural destinations in the United States, but is it a place you can take your children and still enjoy the finer elements of life? The answer is an unequivocal yes. (read the story...)
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Reach for the Moon
In a small cozy theater in Chelsea that holds about 125 people, the TADA! Theater Company puts on crowd pleasing family shows starring children 8-18 years old. (read the story...)
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Tools for Fun
In a bit of serendipity, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum has opened Toolville while our new house is undergoing construction. (read the story...)
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Eastern Heritage Comes Home
When I first heard about the Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture, a new museum in Chelsea, I though there was some mistake; Manhattan already has The Jewish Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the Yeshiva University Museum. A Jewish Children’s Museum, in Brooklyn, is also under construction. But this thoroughly engaging hands-on museum designed for kids ages 6-12, has indeed quietly opened near Chelsea Piers, where it offers interactive exhibits and drop-in arts and crafts workshops. (read the story...)
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A Whale of a Renovation
When the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Ocean Life reopens in May after more than a year of renovation, its famous 94-foot blue whale will have gone through a little cosmetic surgery. (read the story...)
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The Jewish Children's Museum to open in Brooklyn
Brooklyn seems to be the place reaping the richest benefits from the children's museum boom. As museums for kids become ever more expansive and sophisticated, the borough is on the brink of a pair of vanguard moves — the renovation of the Brooklyn Children's Museum into the world's first institution for young people constructed solely from renewable materials; and the brand-new Jewish Children's Museum, targeted to open in Crown Heights late this summer or early fall. (read the story...)
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Small town big fun
Designed to imitate the layout of a small town and featuring the elements of a global village, the Children’s Museum of Southeastern Connecticut in Niantic contains a scaled-down post office, Chinese trading post, Mexican restaurant, and local television station. A signpost in the town square notes the mileage to cities such as Moscow and Paris. Special monthly and seasonal offerings augment the everyday programs. (read the story...)
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In Search of Eloise
“I am six…I am Eloise…I am a city child…I live at the Plaza” declares Kay Thompson’s Eloise. My daughters identify with Eloise’s imagination, independence, and occasional naughtiness. After years of visualizing Eloise scampering through the Plaza, we recently spent an afternoon there searching for her. This is what we found: (read the story...)
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