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The Rebirth of the River Cafe

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl

When Hurricane Sandy barreled down on New York City’s waterfront, it destroyed the River Café. After it hit the moored barge, the storm carried away the Cafe’s stash of priceless wines, plants, rattan chairs, mirrors, pots and pans. Whatever was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anniversary, brad steelman, brooklyn, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn heights, buzzy o'keeffe, dining out, dumbo, family, fine dining, food, foodies, freedom tower, hurricane sandy, michael buzzy o'keeffe, new york city, nyc restaurants, restaurant reviews, restaurants, river cafe, twin towers, windows on the world | 1 Comment

If you love children’s books, hurry to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York to partake in an unusual exhibit entitled The Little Prince: A New York Story. The exhibit is on view until May 27th. Bring a child. Copies are … Continue reading →

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl | 1 Comment

Operas, operettas, and musicals, all of which are a combination of songs, music, dance and dialogue, are an essential form of theatrical entertainment. Successful opera composers, including Verdi, Mozart, and Wagner, became folk heroes, as did their American descendants including … Continue reading →

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl | 1 Comment

A New York City Snowstorm: Pleasure and Climate Change

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl

On January 2, 2014, at about 10 PM, I took Viva, my new miniature poodle, for her evening walk. Nobody else was about. The street, the lampposts, the houses and even the uncollected garbage were frosted by the season’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged brooklyn, climate change, de blasio, environmentalism, haiyan, hurricane sandy, janus, mayor de blasio, new york city, nyc snowstorms, sandy, snow, snowstorms, typhoon haiyan, viva, winter storm janus | 1 Comment

Kandinsky and His Kaleidoscope of Colors

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Suzanne Loebl

One of the pictures that decorated my bedroom way back in Hanover, Germany, was a concentric blue and black circle accompanied by triangles, squares, and straight and wiggly lines that look like the mast of a sailboat. Much later I … Continue reading →

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Aladdin’s Cave

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

If you love jewelry—and many of us do—hurry to the Metropolitan Museum and visit Jewels by JAR. For a short hour you’ll escape the real and virtual miseries of the world and reside in a wonderland of colors, glitter, larger-than-life … Continue reading →

Posted in Art review | Tagged art, cartier, fabergé, jar, jewelry, jewels by jar, joel a rosenthal, lalique, metropolitan museum of art, new york city, nyc museums, paris, tiffany, walters art museum | Leave a comment

Viva

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

My apologies for having neglected my Branching: Thoughts of an Ever Curious Author readership during the past five months. There were many good and bad reasons: reconstruction of my Brooklyn apartment, a new book idea that did not yet gel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acadia national park, adopting a dog, adopting a poodle, adopting a show dog, blogging, brooklyn, brooklyn heights, dog adoption, dog lovers, dog rescue, dogs, maine, miniature poodles, mount desert island, new dog, new york city, poodles, show dogs, viva | 1 Comment

Zabar’s and Food Memories

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Suzanne Loebl

The other day I stopped at Zabar’s. There was a time that I went there weekly though I lived seventy-five blocks further uptown. This was before the food revolution, and the store was the closest one to fill some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged childhood stories, cold cuts, german food, honesty, landjaeger, liptauer, new york city, new york institutions, picky eaters, zabar's | Leave a comment

Dining with the Rockefellers

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

The other day I lunched at La Petite Maison, an upscale restaurant located at 13 W. 54th Street, the house to which the newly wed Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. moved in 1901. It was here that his … Continue reading →

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Christie’s Spring Sale

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Suzanne Loebl

Several times a year, I spend money vicariously at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips, or another one of New York’s upscale auction houses. This year I indulged myself at Christie’s. Given the escalating prices of admission fees to museums, visiting upcoming auctions … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, art auctions, art sales, card players, cezanne, christie's, edvard munch, new york, new york city, paul cezanne, paulin paulet, post-impressionist art, sotheby's, the scream, vincent van gogh | 1 Comment