FOR NEW YORK'S BOOMERS AND BEYOND | Volume 1 • Issue 14 | June, 2006

NEWS BRIEFS

By Andy Humm
NYC Plus presents a monthly round-up of news and events that have the greatest impact our lives.


MONEY

“Charity Begins at Home – Creating Income While Doing Good”
By Katherine McKay
 “…I’m looking for income, and charitable-gift annuities give that to me in spades.” – a charitable-gift annuitant, age 82.


EYE ON ART

“Dada at MoMA, Duchamp on 14th Street”
By Jerry Tallmer
 Ascending a staircase toward the Dada daddy whose nude descending a staircase popped our eyes awake.


MIND/BODY

“The Era of Anti-Aging Technology”
By Linda Hepler
 The thought of living 50 years or more beyond our current life expectancy of 78 may seem surreal – and may soon be within our reach.


PROFILE

“Stephen Lang: Nothing Wrong With Wanting to Be Great”
By Jerry Tallmer
 “You get a certain identification,” says the Hamlet within the uniforms of glory.
 


In This Issue


ESSAY

“Knockout”
By Carol Forget
 Unwilling to accept a future of elastic waistbands and mental imbalance, the author hit back to regain her figure and her sanity.


FEATURE

“Gaming Grannies”
By Sara Francis Fujimura
 Hand over the joystick, Sonny.  Grandma’s Got Game.
 

Want to be a Gaming Granny but don’t know where to start?


PERSONAL HISTORY

“Taking the Devil’s Road”
By D.P. Rigg
 A chance discovery rolls back the clock to reveal how a long-forgotten attempt at cheating inadvertently bestowed one of life’s most crucial lessons.
 

 



Published by Community Media, LLC
145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 229-1890 Fax: (212) 229-2790
Advertising: (646) 452-2465 • www.nyc-plus.com
© 2006 Community Media, LLC

John W. Sutter Publisher
Jennie Green and Jerry Tallmer Editor
Brett C Vermilyea Art Director
Ida Culhane Director of Advertising

WEBMASTER:
arturo@communitymediallc.com



nyc-plus.com


BOOKS

“Nan’s Grooms”
By Nan Goldberg
 Ari Ben Canaan, Rhett Butler, Pierre Bezhukov, and other men I wish I’d married.


FILM HISTORY

“The Graduate Revisited”
By Coeli Carr
Baby boomers turning 60 might like to revisit a beloved film and consider, through a filter of their own experiences, Ben Braddock’s unwritten destiny.


SNAPSHOT

“Earle Hymann: Just Keep It Simple”
By Jerry Tallmer
 Sixty years – and still at it – in everything from Anna Lucasta to Waiting for Godot.
 


RUMINATION

“Hair Rules”
By Trudy Whitman
 That beautiful tresses are invariably linked with sexual desirability has this author reminiscing about the pains she took to make every day a good-hair day.


Visit our family of newspapers!