Tony Sportiello

Can Indie Theater Survive a Pandemic?

August 31, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

When the nationwide lockdown occurred in March of 2020 pretty much every industry in America was shaken. Restaurants and small businesses shuttered their doors, too many of them destined to never return. Gyms and WeWorks […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gets Ready to Open Its Doors

August 21, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

One of New York City’s most popular venues gets ready to emerge from the shadows of the pandemic as The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans to reopen to visitors on Saturday, August 29, with […]

NYC Under Protest

June 2, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

This past weekend, in an effort to distract me from helping her with her homework, my ten year old daughter suddenly asked me, “Daddy, did you march with Martin Luther King?” While I knew this […]

Hospitalized in New York during the time of Corona

April 25, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

New York City is in the midst of a global pandemic, as is the country, as is the world. At the time of this writing 2.87 million people have been confirmed to have the corona […]

Rosie O’Donnell Show to aid the Actor’s Fund

March 23, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

So last night, Sunday March 22nd, was a time when I should have been in front of a TV or at a sports bar watching the Brooklyn Nets, the New York Knicks or spring training […]

NYC in the time of Corona

March 20, 2020 Tony Sportiello 0

It’s said that New York City is an island holding eight million people in an area designed to hold two million people. Walking through the streets of New York in the time of Corona, it […]

Becoming Unfinished, an Art Exhibition in Three Acts

December 4, 2019 Tony Sportiello 0

One of the great things about living in New York for more than thirty years is every time you think you’ve seen everything there is to see, something new comes along and smashes your illusion. […]

Making Marvels Review – Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe

November 24, 2019 Tony Sportiello 0

Let’s say you were a member of a ruling family in Europe somewhere between the years 1550 and 1750, enjoying the good life as you were wont to do, and you were looking for a […]

What’s Cooking in Hell’s Kitchen – Many Changes

November 19, 2019 Tony Sportiello 0

It’s the most famous (or infamous) section of the most famous (or infamous) city in the world. Hell’s Kitchen, New York City is generally ascribed to be that area in Manhattan from 34th Street to […]

Felix Vallitton – Rebel artist

November 1, 2019 Tony Sportiello 0

I’m not sure what it is about the French education system that incites their students into the act of rebellion – from the famous (and melodic) building of the barricades in the nineteenth century, to […]