“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” —Henry David Thoreau In my youth, when I was more romantic, I was proud of loving weather — all weather. I had a Wuthering Heights sort of sensibility for dramatic climatic turbulence in picturesque landscapes. ...
As I left the Lake Placid Film Festival on Sunday, Nov. 2, I looked back at the Palace Theatre, the white marquee, the red lettering advertising the current showings, the glow of overhead lights. I was a little sad to say goodbye to the cinema, the event, and the town as I drove back to ...
Great athletes master the skill of recovery. Consider the punishing schedule of an NBA player’s three to four games a week during their 82-game season. To date, LeBron James has played over 1,500 games in 22 seasons. You may wonder how he does it. Basketball is a physically demanding ...
Halloween! It’s here. And what’s scarier than Halloween right now? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website. How could this be true, you ask. What American institution could be more solid, more samey, less full of surprises, than the good old USDA? Established in 1862 ...
Laela Kilbourn is patient. Behind her lens, she waits to capture what is withheld, the gap between the spoken and the unspoken. The existential attentiveness is necessary for Kilbourn’s work as a cinematographer, a job that creates space for the subject, the actor and the scene to reveal its ...
When I was a kid, the “shoulder season” lasted nine months interrupted by winter weekends when skiers arrived to hit the slopes of Whiteface and Whitney, and in the fall, for those who had professional guides in the family as we did, by hunters seeking the wily deer. Today, ...