This is a show that you will not want to miss! Second City, a comedy troupe and a Chicago landmark, is truly a national treasure – as American as Apple Pie! And, for those of us who grew up on Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, Second City is hallowed ground…the birthplace of improv…
One of the most remote places you can visit on Earth is also one of the most mysterious: Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui in the native language. Dubbed Easter Island when the first Europeans landed here on Easter Day 1722, the island is the most isolated inhabited place on earth – farther from the…
by Cynthia English We met at the Asheville Botanical Gardens for a talk, a walk and a commune with nature. Me and one of the foremost celebrated ‘foragers’ of our time, Alan Muskat. A complex man who invites his clients to live from love, not fear, and to begin that journey by experiencing the gorgeous…
All over the world we recognize there are many differences, but one thing remains constant – music. What if there was a way to connect all the different music in one place? Alan Lomax, founder of ACE (Associations for Cultural Equity), came up with an idea to make this possible back in the early 1990s,…
by Cynthia English Despite dynamic shifts and strife occurring globally, is this not the opportune moment to take our time on earth and foster the momentum that was fueled as far back as 1865 and 1899 when we came together as nations to build collaborations–not war? To honor one another. To help one another. In…
MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony® Award Winner for Best Musical, heads south to the Sunshine State for Spring Break. The emotionally-charged show rocks Florida’s First Coast and Jacksonville’s Times-Union Center from March 18-23, 2014. Despite MEMPHIS’s serious subject matter, the music and choreography are empowering, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats in joyful…
A Reunion with my Own Sense of Promise High school reunions are always iffy propositions. The memory we have of our classmates and ourselves is clouded by adolescent angst. Who we are now, who we thought we’d become as teenagers, and our feelings about our adult self make a head-spinning emotional cocktail. On the surface…