DeSiCiTi Nominated for Best TV Pilot at the New York City International Film Fest

DeSiCiTi's Leading Ladies

Nominated for Best TV Pilot at the NYC International Film Fest, DeSiCi is a commendable TV pilot from Little Brown Girl Productions. It's Sex and the City with a sensitive cultural upgrade. Four South Asian women navigate the New York City roles they can play in this Bollywood-on-the-Hudson plus sitcom. The Desi aspect is poignant, laced with hilarious plot overturns that update the tried and true "That Girl" formula. Somebody give this pilot a greenlight, please?

Things for families to do at Bryant Park

It's educational and fun! Enjoy Bryant Park on the beautiful last days of summer vacation!

Really? Award to Lego City

Is it me or are there no female people in Lego City? I found a nurse, a woman with a baby as the only likely urban dwellers in their catalog, and, oh, yes, there's a cowgirl named Jessie, but she seems to be the rural kind.

No wonder boys are busy smashing up the houses in Lego world. Somebody send them a copy of Gloria: In Her Own Words, please! Where did all the equal opportunities go?

Facebook Me: The Play at FringeNYC -- Go see it!

Curious about what your teen is doing on Facebook. This play won't make you happy, but it will help you start the conversation. See my review.  By tickets for the weekend here.

Featured Article on Travel in the Czech Republic

 For "Learning to Love the Wall" to read about the John Lennon Peace Wall in Prague, click here. This article is featured in the Czech Republic section at suite101.com

NYC High Line Gets it Right for Visitors of All Ages

The High Line is educational and a valuable life lesson about community
management of natural settings. Here are some ideas about how to spend
your day:  High Line Article.

June 20 on The High Line

How Puppets Get Real in War Horse at Lincoln Center

The transplanted production values of the National Theatre of Britain's War Horse, now a multiple Tony Award winner playing at Lincoln Center Theater, are so extraordinary that some of them should be marked adults only. Not that the production offers nothing to children. It offers quite a lot. But the vivid reality of early twentieth century war, as created by Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, may be frightening to younger children. So, pack up your less easily frightened 'tweens and teens, and visit this production. You will fall in love with beautiful horses all over again. Though the outlines of the endearing story of the equine sacrifice during World War I continues to stir the heart as it did in Michael Morpurgo's original short book, the fiery horrors of the battlefield feel more than a little close for comfort in the intimate surround of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It's riveting theater and much larger than the original story. Better than virtual reality, the play borrows techniques from film to absorb you in its world. The horses are watching you, and they will respond. Get off the couch.