Vendors's Day

Today in NYC, we celebrate our vendors. We're paying more attention to the men and women who man the food, ice cream and pretzel carts around the city since two vendors notified the police when they noticed smoke coming out of a parked van. Sure enough, a would-be terorist was trying to set off a bomb in our Theatre District. The quick-thinking vendors saved the day.

The carts offer every kind of food from hot dogs to Chinese food to tacos to falafel, vegetarian to kosher, spicy to bland.

Then there are the gentlemen who sell inexpensive watches, imitation purses with a design logo, scarves, jewelry, gloves and what about those I Love NY tee shirts that sell for the reasonable price of three for a dollar?

Near the museums, you'll find reproductions of famous pieces of art, crafts and original paintings. Near the theatres, caricaturists will be happy to immortalize you.

Tel a visitor that the design items are fake and they'll tell you--Hey! it's NY.


Bests,

Elise

Scene Stealer, my eBook, is available at Carina Press, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel and wherever eBooks are sold. An audio version is produced by Audible.

Other Desert Cities

Lincoln Center is presenting another marvelous play. Written by Jon Robin Baitz, the play takes place over the Christmas holidays and explores love and dysfunction in a not so typical family. Became deeply involved with a cast that includes Stockard Channing and Linda Lavin. I believed, I believed and that's what theatre and writing is all about.

Indulged in heavenly food at Shun Lee afterward. One of the best restaurants in the city. Prawns, chicken with three nuts, hand-made noodles and vegetables and eggplant-just hot enough to add zip to the dish. Great food that warms the tummy and the sould during this cold, icy winter.

Today, snow, ice and rain make the streets slippery and the best place to be is in front of the computer deciding how to end an article.

Onward and upward with the arts. Who said that?

Bests,

Elise