G&S Sporting Goods is a hallmark of New York City’s Lower East Side. Their specialty: Their own line of Boxing Equipment. The small family-run store was opened in 1937 by local boxing champ Izzy Zerling, now 96. Izzy’s son, Len took over in 1957 and has managed to keep the […]
topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT “Love doesn’t exist. We are animals. Nothing but hyper-intelligent animals. Too intelligent, if you ask me. But we’re not as aware as we’d like to believe. We play tricks on ourselves in the name of survival. Self-abnegation for self-preservation. Don’t you see? This is […]
topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT “A Taste of Heaven” won the ITACA contest in May 2011 Get to know Janet better by going Behind the Story I booked a holiday in early May, on the Greek island of Crete, inadvertently finding myself in the midst of Easter celebrations.\ Three English couples, […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Listen to the Story! As an annually optimistic person – that is to say – I am optimistic in September, every year, and then I go back to being a negative, fatalistic person for the rest of […]
topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Do you know what he said? This was on the second day. We were in Lyon, and I left him for five minutes while I went to check in, told Jessie to watch him, and so she’s moping in the back of the car […]
topic: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT A large palm tree stood near the entrance of the garden. Beneath the tree was a vast carpet of flowering plants, but there were gardeners of an Indian or Pakistani origin busily transplanting the small white flowering shrubs for a similar red flowering […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” You were in a dream I had. I was buying candles for Chanukah at a supermarket and they huddled in a molten grey lump at the bottom of my shopping cart. The front wheel […]
For those of you craving the company of literary types and good prose may we suggest Pentales, a charming collective of 20/30 somethings that know how to weave a good yarn and their beguiling charm. Headed by ex Harvard alumni Stephanie Ursula Hodges and her collaborator (and childhood friend) Saskia Miller who completed […]
Another great performance from our storytelling event in partnership with the BMW Guggenheim Lab. This story will hit home for oh-so-many of you dear PenTales friends. Today, we invite you to watch writer Allen Salkin speak somberly about how Whole Foods is basically just an extension of Coyote Ugly and […]