Bianca Turetsky loves to write, it’s just what she does. Growing up in Fairfield, Connecticut, her first published piece was a poem she wrote in elementary school and the rest is history. Turetsky’s sweet spot is children’s books. Her first books were a series of three called Time Traveling Fashionista. Now she’s writing a new Read more…
Jamie Maurer’s landscape photography is stunning, it pops off the screen. Without much, or any manipulation, she captures what she sees from where she lives in New York City. Maurer’s company, Yaela Photography is known for events and photographs of people, but it is “landscape” that is getting her noticed. Her dream would be to Read more…
For 80 years the Fashion Scholarship Fund, based in New York City, has been helping designers in the fashion industry get ahead. FSF’s mission is to encourage gifted and enterprising young people to pursue careers in design, merchandising, retailing, and business. Executive Director, Doug Evans and his board is working with 61 colleges and universities Read more…
A never-ending visual exploration of New York City’s culinary offerings People are compelled to do all kinds of things in their lives. John Donohue is an artist and writer who has decided to draw all the eateries in New York City. John Donohue of Brooklyn, New York… a former editor at The New Yorker, recently launched his Read more…
Liza Donnelly has been a staff cartoonist at The New Yorker Magazine since 1982. She tells stories thru her drawings, some political, some not. Donnelly, who married at UCONN graduate, and who herself has an honorary doctorate from UCONN, is also now the resident CBS News cartoonist where she captures images for the network. Recently, she began Read more…
Rashad Frett of Hartford served the country as an Army Medic. His unit was called to New York City on 9-11. Just hours after two planes hit the twin towers, he was in a helicopter flying over the enormous smoking debris field. He was just 20-years old then and seeing utter devastation in America. He Read more…
Van Dean is a Broadway producer and founder of Broadway Records who grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut. Dean’s life as a producer changed after the tragedy at Sandy Hook. He saw so many hurting that he knew he had to do something. He started producing summer productions where he brings actors from Broadway who get involved Read more…
Italian-American, Al Primo, is a pioneer in television news, he lives in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Primo is largely responsible for the format you see every night on your local news. News Anchors, a weather person and sports and then interaction with reporters in the field and their chats with the folks at the news desk. Read more…
New York City event planner to the stars, Matthew Robbins of Matthew Robbins Design, is the guy behind the magic you see in events on television, in magazines, on blogs. He designs weddings and parties for the very famous, though he won’t tell you exactly who because he practices discretion. Fifteen years ago he says the Read more…
Having been to Italy several times…this makes me want to get on the train and head into New York City. Restaurant Via Della Pace in the East Village.
