Life works in very mysterious ways. I have always been a fanatic for Frank Zappa. Never the most popular music, I often ruined many college parties by switching the music from Springsteen to Zappa…lets just say all the girls left the room instantaneously! The other day someone asked what inspired…

One of the coolest things we have done at One River is program world-class exhibitions in Englewood, NJ. It’s a central part of our mission to close the culture gap that exists between the city and suburbia.  Now we are announcing a brand new program for 2016 that will bring…

Last summer I finally made it to Paris and the city was beautiful beyond compare.  Everyone had told me how amazing the place was but I could never feel what it was like until I had a chance to roam the streets and truly experience it first hand.  Over the…

Now that I have spent the last ten years trying to improve creative education around the world, I find myself constantly thinking about what makes our brains tick? I never had the science skills to become a doctor but somehow I wound up earning a doctorate in human observation. And,…

Todays Mets are cool! How did this happen??? Young, free spirited and built with the real conviction that comes with being fearless, this newfangled form is an amazingly better, millennial version of this franchise. Talk about brand reinvention…The Mets are cool…how in the world could this be???  I am not…

In the past few years, I have become a collector and friend of the artist Alexander Tovborg. This past Saturday Alexander taught a master class for our Advanced Teen Artists @ One River School. Watching Alexander work with our teens took me back to the very premise I had four…

Isn’t it funny that simple things resonate the most with us? When our senses of touch, taste or smell are activated, they elicit the most primary of responses. These are informed by the earliest responses you had as a child and your brain’s wiring drives this. So, what is it…

Yes it does! So does Music. And Dance. This Sunday, we bring you all of these live in Englewood at Veterans Park (across from One River School @ 49 N. Dean Street), from 11AM to 5PM. There will be free art & photography workshops, live performances from the talented House Band @ School of Rock…

Uh oh, I have a subtle feeling that the winter blues are around the corner.  How do I know?  Well, it generally starts with a few signals: sleepier in the AM, drinking way too much coffee, nesting at home on Sundays and finding ridiculous chores to accomplish, sitting in the…