How to Take Longer Trips
And Pay Less
By Rolf Potts
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about travel is that short trips cost less than longer ones. In reality, a month-long journey is not just cheaper than four one-week vacations; it can in fact cost about the same as one typical one-week vacation. Similarly, taking a year off to travel can easily be a better value (and a more memorable experience) than a decade of hurried, two-week vacations. (GO TO ARTICLE)

Learn Seven New Tricks
By IYNA BORT CARUSO
Another Monday morning rolls around, and your weekend recap sounds like an echo of the week before. Errands, house chores, and a TiVo’d CSI. Strike a chord? Then it might be time to take the yawn out of your routine.

Senior Power and Going Green
By Edwin Méndez-Santiago, LCSW
In visiting a senior center on Earth Day to talk about “going green” Mayor Bloomberg had a special point to make. As the largest growing segment of the City’s population, seniors are not only vital to the City’s goal of reducing carbon emissions by 30% by 2030, they could be on the cutting edge of the “go green” movement.

The Golden Golden Years
By Mad Dog
We all need something to look forward to, whether it’s a good night’s sleep, a much-needed vacation, retirement, or a new president. But what about the big things in life? How optimistic can we be when every day we wake up knowing the best part of our life is behind us and we’ve been going downhill ever since? Well there’s good news.

Hooray for Ray of Avenue A
By Christopher J. Ryan
Seventy-five years old…50 more to go! So said Ray Alvarez, proprietor of Ray’s Candy Shop on Avenue A as he watched “Creamy Stevens” strip off her clothes in honor of his 75th birthday. Her high heels clicked away on Ray’s well-worn counter as her white-gloved hands touched the ornate tin ceiling for balance. 

Escape to Woodstock
By  ETHAN GILSDORF
Woodstock, New York is a village unjustly famous for the music festival that never happened here: in 1969, a half-million hippies descended on Bethel, about an hour away, not Woodstock. But as radicals and urban refugees lingered in the area, the town’s anti-establishment reputation also stuck around. The word “Woodstock” came to mean more than just a place, but an emblem of a by-gone era, even a marketing tool that stood for a whole generation’s system of beliefs.

FOOD

Chill It!
By Beth D’Addono
Summer and soup don’t usually go together. Once the mercury rises, the very thought of sipping a steamy bowl of hearty potage is enough to give a person the vapors.

Chilled Coconut-Plantain Soup

Cold Beet Soup

ARTS
Create a Book of Memories
Beth D'Addono
Come on, ‘fess up. You have a shopping bag or shoe box full of photographs sitting in a closet or on a basement shelf in your home. Snapshots may be in the original processing envelope, or just gathering dust-- a school picture of you at age 6 next to a shot of your mother-in-law on her honeymoon next to a picture of the neighborhood kids at last year’s Easter Egg hunt. lf you’re the type of person who immediately organizes photos into crafty little albums complete with snappy homilies to underscore warm and fuzzy moments, then move on to the next article. But if your photographs have gotten the best of you, read on. The experts can help.

Do’s and Don’t for Photo Storage