Theater review CALL ME IZZY 85 minutes with no intermission. At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Jean Smart is at the height of her career. She’s won three Emmy Awards in the last four years for her widely acclaimed performance as stand-up comic Deborah Vance on “Hacks.” The wonderful actress with a newfound prestige … Read more
Brooklynites Felecia and Ty Freely are bona fide nerds. But the clever married couple — she a seasoned techie, he a psych student at Columbia — don’t view their brainy lots in life as a negative. Instead, the perspicacious pair have wrangled their collective wit to help build community in the Big Apple — by creating … Read more
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A year when some commuted to the office while others worked from home. A time when jobholders and seekers yearned for comfort and growth. Whoops — this isn’t a modern version of Dickens, it’s a holiday gift list for the workers in your … Read more
Meet a feathered fellow who is lighting up the internet with his verbal abilities and intelligence: Apollo, an African grey parrot. Apollo lives with his humans, Dalton Mason and Victoria Lacey, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is 2-and-a-half years old, and has feathered family members as well as human ones; Mason and Lacey also own two white-bellied … Read more