By Lori Perkins  I love Beaujolais Nouveau, the new (meaning 2025) French red wine that is held back by French law until the third Thursday of November when they allow us plebs outside France to sample it.  This is the newly harvested wine from this year, and is fruitier than the more fermented varieties. To my friends who have never had it, I describe is as Manischewitz but French and without the tannins.   Last year’s was not so great,  but this year is wonderful! And even

Riverdale Avenue Books invites the brave, the curious, and lovers of all things macabre to an unforgettable afternoon of horror and history at the Lizzie Borden House Anthology  launch party. The event takes place Sunday, November 9, from 2:00–4:00 PM  at the historic Lizzie Borden House Bed & Breakfast , 230 2nd Street in Fall River, MA, the very site of the notorious 1892 axe murders that continue to haunt America’s imagination. Guests will be treated to a reading by seven

By Elizabeth Kerri Mahon You’ve heard of pub crawls; well, this past Saturday, I took a historic house crawl sponsored by the Historic House Trust of New York City . The Historic House Trust helps preserve twenty-three significant sites, many located in New York City parks. The historic house crawl featured four houses in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx: the Morris-Jumel Mansion , the Dyckman Farmhouse , the Van Cortlandt House Museum , and the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum . I’m