Steven Hansen
Listen to Met Operas LIVE from Lincoln Center
New York City’s Metropolitan Opera provides free live audio streaming of performances on its website once every week during the opera...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 26
- 4 min
Watch 'Real Life' TV
Bored? Can’t sleep? Well, there’s a new TV genre streaming online that may pique your interest and while away the time: LIVE, 24-hour...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Treat Yourself to a Massage
Getting and giving nice long hugs has been proven to release oxytocin – the “feel-good” hormone – in our bodies. But hugs can be few and...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 13
- 6 min
“If You Could Live Anywhere," How Do You Choose? Read On!
It started with the “digital nomads” of the late 1990s. Then the van-lifers of the early 2010s. Small groups of adventure seekers were...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 6
- 1 min
Take This Mind-Blowing Fantasy Vacation
French artist Lucas Vaskange says that he creates universes and stories with his illustrations, comics, and videos. And after you start...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Guitarist Shreds Vivaldi Concerto
Musician Mark Klett currently directs jazz improv and Great American Songbook standards in workshop settings at Music Makers studios in...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 22
- 7 min
Jobs They Love: Stand-Up Comedian
Lucky are they who look forward to Mondays – or their next gig -- with joy in their hearts! Meet the folks whose talents and passions are...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 17
- 1 min
One Martini Movie: "Jitaku"
You can mix a double gin martini in 3-4 minutes, including chilling the cocktail glass and preparing the olive and lemon garnish. So, you...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Those Ice Cream Truck Tunes
You can hear it from blocks away – the endless loop of an ice cream truck’s catchy tune plinked out on what sounds like an amplified...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 4
- 3 min
The Remotest Island in the World
Next time you feel like really getting away from it all, why not sail on down to Tristan da Cunha? It’s the remotest inhabited island on...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Jump Up and Down!
Let me be the 11th person this week to rag at you that you need to get more exercise. Or the 12th, including your conscience. You’ll look...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 17
- 1 min
One Martini Movie: “Heatwave”
It takes 7 minutes or so to mix a classic vodka martini, including chilling the cocktail glass and preparing an olive and lemon garnish....
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 11
- 2 min
America's Musical Highways
The road trip is an American tradition – that rolling, days-long adventure highlighted with snacks and trinkets at Stuckey’s stops...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 2
- 7 min
Jobs They Love: Pie Entrepreneur
Lucky are they who look forward to Mondays with joy in their hearts! Meet the folks whose talents and passions are happily matched to the...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 29
- 1 min
Go Through Your Old Photos
Remember that one candid snapshot someone took of your grandma (or dad, or sister, or you) laughing like crazy at some fool thing...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Dolce Far Niente
Every now and then, you simply have to stop. Sit down. Relax…and do nothing. Yes nothing. Italians have mastered this gentle art of...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Sing In a Choir
Everyone knows you feel better when you sing. Whether it’s a few rounds of “99 Bottles of Beer” revving up the night at the local dive,...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 5
- 1 min
One Martini Movie: “Standby”
It takes 5 minutes to mix a classic gin martini (provided the cocktail glass is already chilled). So you can either make a martini or you...
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Steven Hansen
- May 29
- 8 min
“Recalculating… Enjoy Your Trip!”
Thank ye tech gods for inventing GPS, and the Google Maps lady whose calm and confident navigation gets us where we need to go!...
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Steven Hansen
- May 21
- 1 min
It's Time to Get Fresh Again
It's finally here! Fresh local asparagus is back at NYC’s Greenmarkets along with the first crop of radishes, leeks and field greens –...
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