New York City's acknowledged position as the mecca for arts and entertainment in America means that aspiring artists and performers flock here in untold numbers, willing to sacrifice everything for the opportunity to present their work at the highest levels in their fields.

This year, AIDS Walk New York also served as an important reminder. We were reminded of the incredible, supportive community we have today. In the earliest, darkest days of the epidemic, AIDS was a death sentence. Our elected officials wouldn't even utter the word.

Put into modern day, how do you answer your loved one when she asks: Do I look fat in these pants? Yes -- Shakespeare (and perhaps experience) tells us that a "little white lie" may not be so bad! But what about in the professional world? Is withholding the full truth really a virtue?

The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) will induct Julius Rosenwald, the late CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Co. whose philanthropy transformed education for African Americans, into their Only In America/Hall of Fame at a gala in New York on June 1, 2016.

Returning to New York is like running in to a gorgeous ex -- not just any ex, but "the one that got away." The one you left saying "it's not you, it's me." The one that looks like a movie star to everyone else, but all you can see is how they look in the morning, with disheveled hair and coffee breath.

There are not many characteristics you need to learn to be a New York Corporate. Some are relatively easy to master others will take practice.

Actions speak louder than words. When GOP state governments use patronizing and arrogant arguments as justification to unravel the wishes of its cities or counties that are trying to make life better or more inclusive, one can't help but smell the scent of hypocrisy.

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Technology is a great thing. I have met so many wonderful friends because of the Internet. However, I can't help but think that there has been a drastic increase in rude behavior because of how everything is so accessible these days.

For many low-income New Yorkers, choosing between a meal and a MetroCard, risking arrest for jumping a turnstile or missing work, are daily dilemmas.

David Hare, who turns his plays out one on top of the next, can be sly when he wants. The Judas Kiss--about Oscar Wilde on the day he's arrested (April 6, 1895) for indecency and then, in the second act, revisited sometime after he's been released from Reading Goal--doesn't begin with Wilde (Rupert Everett) and his notorious lover, Alfred, Lord Douglas, known as Bosie (Charlie Rowe).