Steven Hansen
One Martini Movie: "Oh Baby!"
Enjoy this month’s One Martini Movie in the same amount of time it takes to mix and enjoy a classic gin Martini – or mocktini. (Or mix...
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Steven Hansen
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Can You Solve This Puzzle?
Attention cruciverbalists! Can you solve this crossword? If it doesn’t look familiar, you may have missed it. You see, this is the very...
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Steven Hansen
- Jan 9
- 5 min
They Survived the Test of Time
Don’t be surprised if somebody wishes you “Happy Old New Year!” on Saturday. That’s because the official first day of the year on the...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 26, 2022
- 4 min
New Year’s Eve Instant Party Kit
Still haven’t made plans for New Year’s Eve? No worries. We've got your party right here. All you need is a heady cocktail, some simple...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Release Your 2023 Wishes High Above Times Square at Midnight!
You can hold your wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year deep in your heart, OR you can have them launched into the skies...
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Steven Hansen
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
Choose a Forest, Sit Back and Listen
The physical and mental benefits of “forest bathing” are well known. This ancient Japanese therapy, known as shinrin-yoku, is the...
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Steven Hansen
- Nov 5, 2022
- 11 min
Our 2022 Holiday Happiness Gift Guide!
It’s here! Our 2022 Happiness Holiday Gift Guide! Have fun shopping some of our very favorite things that we’ve discovered this year in...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 23, 2022
- 1 min
One Martini Movie: "Projections in the Forest"
You can mix a double gin martini, in 3.5 minutes, including chilling the cocktail glass and preparing the olive or lemon garnish. So, you...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
Take a Spin Around the World
…from 240 miles above the Earth! Enjoy the views of our “big blue marble” from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Live Stream cams...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 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 6, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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 17, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Jul 17, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Jun 21, 2022
- 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 5, 2022
- 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 21, 2022
- 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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Steven Hansen
- May 18, 2022
- 1 min
Listen! Arts & Culture Radio Live and On-demand
It’s easier than ever to listen to our subscribers’ favorite arts and culture radio stations, AudioBook Radio and JasonCharles.net. Both...
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Steven Hansen
- May 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Secret Key to NYC’s Beacon of Light
When red, white, and blue lights were turned on atop the Empire State Building to commemorate the country’s 1976 bicentennial, they lit...
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Steven Hansen
- Mar 20, 2022
- 3 min
Gardeners: Lettuce Be Joyful and Plant!
Spring is here! It’s time to stop dreaming and start planning your garden, whether it’s a window box, a raised bed, a neighborhood garden...
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HA Staff
- Jan 28, 2022
- 3 min
Yummy Origin Stories: Jiffy Pop
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Ear Bliss #4
Relax and take a well-deserved aural vacation listening to these four specially chosen selections that will help you escape a dreary or...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
For Your Holiday Viewing Pleasure
No matter where you end up spending the holidays this year – stuck in an airport terminal, happy by yourself and off-the-clock in your...
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Steven Hansen
- Nov 19, 2021
- 5 min
The Best Gift Ever!
Oh, what to give them this year? It has to be something really special this time. In the past you’ve given a full menu of Edible...
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Steven Hansen
- Nov 7, 2021
- 5 min
Favorite Place to Read a Book
One of the simplest joys of life is curling up with a good book. To be transported – or even lost – inside a gripping mystery or horror...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 12, 2021
- 3 min
No Boarding Passes Required!
A great way to whet your appetite for traveling again is to explore a few favorite destinations online but with a different perspective....
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 5, 2021
- 5 min
Yummy Origin Stories: The Cheeseburger
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 3, 2021
- 1 min
Did Your Dog Just Say That?
A dog’s bark is represented in different ways in the English language, such as: bark-bark, woof-woof, arf-arf, ruff-ruff and bow-wow....
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
Enjoy These ‘Happy Place’ Contest Videos
We received a beautiful collection of entries in our first “Go to Your Happy Place” video contest. Thanks to all our followers who...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Yummy Origin Stories: Baked Grapefruit
We love food! We especially love creative recipes that were invented to make us happy. This recipe wasn’t invented by Mrs. Houdini, but...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 19, 2021
- 1 min
Amazing Night Skies at Your Fingertips
You keep thinking you must book a winter trip to that Norwegian island above the Arctic Circle to see the majestic displays of the aurora...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 7, 2021
- 2 min
Uplifting History
According to the Roman architect Vitruvius, elevators have been around since about 236 BC, when Archimedes built the first primitive...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Ear Bliss #3
Relax and take a well-deserved aural vacation listening to these five specially chosen selections that will help you escape a dreary or...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
Enter Our 'Happy Place' Video Contest!
"Go to your happy place!" When you close your eyes and imagine your happy place, what does it look like? A private tropical island? The...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Yummy Origin Stories: Potato Chips
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
Spirits of Our Heroes
Some well-oiled merrymaker once said, “You can’t buy happiness, but you can prepare a cocktail. And that’s kind of the same thing.”...
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HA Staff
- Jun 19, 2021
- 1 min
One-of-a-Kind Bookstore is Reborn
A Broadway institution reopens its doors at a beautiful new location.
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 14, 2021
- 2 min
Yummy Origin Stories: Soft Serve Ice Cream
Soft serve ice cream was an accidental discovery!
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
Happy Hideaways: Saint-Marc-sur-Mer
The places that promote carefree joy – and often deliver it – fashion themselves to be beyond the reach of the humdrum world. And they...
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Steven Hansen
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
Bemelmans Bar: A Storybook ‘Nursery’ for Grown-ups
Ludwig Bemelmans, the author and illustrator of the popular “Madeline” books for children, was commissioned to hand-paint whimsical...
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Steven Hansen
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
Street Fun: "Pssst…Look in here!"
Urban writer Charles Montgomery says that, “Happiness is a house with many rooms, but at its core is a hearth around which we gather with...
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HA Staff
- Apr 25, 2021
- 1 min
Big Bird Chills Out
A big blue version of Big Bird from Sesame Street has landed on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The...
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Steven Hansen
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
Ear Bliss #2
Falling snow, a cat purring, jazz harp, New York traffic noise and a tiny love story. Listen and smile from ear to ear.
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Steven Hansen
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Home Is Where the Art Is
In the early spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to rage, widespread quarantines kept people inside their homes, and closed...
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Steven Hansen
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
90 Seconds of Joy: Roller Coaster Open House
To launch their daily “House Promoter” project in style, Amsterdam’s ABN Amro Bank made sure that house viewings at one house in Ermelo...
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HA Staff
- Apr 10, 2021
- 2 min
Yummy Origin Stories: Frito Pie
We love food! We especially love creative food treats that were invented to make us happy, if not necessarily healthy. You just know the...
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Steven Hansen
- Apr 3, 2021
- 1 min
Choirboy Inhales Helium
On April 1, 2014, the legendary Choir of King’s College Cambridge found a possible solution enabling older choir boys to continue to hit...
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