FOR NEW YORK'S BOOMERS AND BEYOND | Volume 1 • Issue 15 | July, 2006

NEWS BRIEFS

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


OPED

Medicare Part D: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
By Deborah Emin
 It is scandalous for politicians to treat a program like Medicare with the same tactics the government employed to sell an endless ‘war on terror.’


EYE ON ART

“Odets the Painter”
By Jerry Tallmer
 The hard-hitting playwright ofs “Waiting for Lefty” with pen-and-brush instead of a typewriter.


REFLECTION

“The Jet Plane
By Wickham Boyle
 When a mother, driving her kid to school, has to realize she’s a big girl now.


Visit our family of newspapers!

PROFILE

“Leroy Neiman: Someone Who Didn’t Play the Game, That’s All”
By Jerry Tallmer
 An artist who didn’t play the game, but drew them.
 


In This Issue

FEATURE

“The Purpose Prize”
By Trudy Whitman
 Nudging America toward a realization of its “experience dividend.”
 


FEATURE

“Ghost of the Future”
By John Arbucci
 Is there work after 50?


FICTION

“The Rumplestiltskin”
By Nan Goldberg
 “My aphasia plagues me. Today I could not find the word ‘premise,’ and came to a sudden halt, mentally groping, fingers twitching at the keyboard, for what seemed like eternity.”
 



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


TRAVEL

“Canada: A Summer Place”
By Janis Turk
When New York streets start to sizzle, Canada offers cooler climes and civilized times.


MUSIC

“Dion: Return of the Wanderer”
By Ken Shane
 Last year the Bronx legend surprised the music world by releasing an acoustic blues album.  Reminiscing about a career that has lasted more than 50 years, he explains why Bronx in Blue shouldn’t have been a surprise at all.


SNAPSHOT

“A Hollywood Director Turns Poet”
By Deborah Emin
 Stephen Gyllenhal had a successful career and a beautiful family.  But when he hit a rough patch, writing poetry became the surprising remedy.


ESSAY

“Older Moms Can Have It All; Just Not All At Once”
By Deb Lehman
 When my biological clock started ticking like a bomb, I was 36 years old, separated, rooming with a stranger, and freelancing from paycheck to paycheck. But there was one certainty in my life: I wanted to have a baby.