ALBANY—His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in town, and just offered the opening prayer over the State Senate chamber. "Compassion will guide more of our activities in way that they become constructive," the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso said. "Compassion will bring us in step with more confidence, and inner peace of mind. That's extremely useful Read More
ALBANY—His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in town, and just offered the opening prayer over the State Senate chamber.
"Compassion will guide more of our activities in way that they become constructive," the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso said. "Compassion will bring us in step with more confidence, and inner peace of mind. That's extremely Read More
On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 20, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was hovering on a dais inside a Catskills conference center, wrapped in the swaddling robes of fame, love and audience expectations. In front of him, a throng of scientists and seeker types sat awed and silent—and in some cases praying—while the event’s Read More
Sometimes, one’s priorities get misplaced. It’s easy for a devotee of the visual arts, particularly in a city as abundant with museums and galleries as New York, to take cultural riches for granted. Even the most dogged can only see so much during a given week or month or year. Exhibitions, artists and venues end Read More
We hear the Dalai Lama will stop by the Farley Post Office this Sunday to pay tribute to his late friend, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for whom the post office will be renamed—once it turns into a train station. Turns out the two went way back, and the Senator’s daughter, Maura, agitated for Tibetan Read More
"Was God in the Tsunami?" I woke up to that question in my Yahoo inbox four days after the waves struck, a posting from Beliefnet, a popular discussion list I subscribe to. It was the morning when the death-toll estimates had gone into six figures for the first time. It would be interesting to calculate Read More
Sunnyside, Queens, may be as remote as Tibet for the average Manhattanite, but for Tibetan exile Yungchen Lhamo, it's the cozy center of life. For a woman born under the brutal, and ongoing, Chinese occupation of Tibet, Sunnyside offers security, economic prosperity and religious freedom-not to mention international acclaim for her singing. It was a Read More
Batten down, Manhattan! It's going to be a no-nonsense, don't-screw-with-me kind of autumn. And thank goodness. We all need a bit of starch.
The summer of '03 never really congealed: There was no great love affair, no memorable bikini, no lingering zinc-y aftertaste of scandal, the kind that makes you want to scrub your palate with Read MoreI'm going to interrupt this column before it even begins with an important announcement, an open letter, a personal appeal to Mr. Bill Murray. I'd been planning to write something about Tom Petty this week, to take issue with some condescending and disparaging remarks about Mr. Petty (a riff on his alleged "dumbness") by an Read More
Martin Scorsese's Kundun needs no hype from me; a month after it opened, the lines still stretch around the corner at the neighborhood movie house where it is playing. It is a movie with the rare merit, for a film in a historical or exotic setting, of presenting a world that is authentically strange, not Read More
Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown , from a screenplay by Mr. Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, is too good an action movie to be dumped in Santa's bag with all the impossibly numerous movie bonbons and stale fruitcakes of this holiday season. Mr. Tarantino has returned after a long directorial hiatus Read More
