by LouiseGund | Dec 10, 2025 | Broadway, Play, Programs
The 78th Tony Awards, held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 8, marked the end of one of the most memorable Broadway seasons in recent memory. With the help of celebrity star power (George Clooney and Denzel Washington, to name only two) and many...
by LouiseGund | Dec 10, 2025 | Programs
It wasn’t that long ago that the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a lot of uncertainty in regard to the future of Broadway. Broadway theaters earned a record $1.83 billion during the 2018-19 season, but all 41 venues closed on March 12, 2020 and didn’t...
by LouiseGund | Aug 11, 2020 | Conservation, Environment, History, Programs, Wildlife
Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau once called the Sea of Cortez “the world’s aquarium.” Ray Cannon, author of the 1966 book The Sea of Cortez, echoed Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when he described it as a “painted ocean.” The gulf embraced by Baja California...
by LouiseGund | Aug 6, 2020 | Environment, Nature, Programs, Wildlife
Researchers in Japan have discovered a new way to address the effects of a global decline in the populations of bees and other wild pollinators: blowing bubbles. In 2019 American beekeepers lost about 40 percent of all their honeybee colonies. The honeybee species...
by LouiseGund | Aug 4, 2020 | Broadway, Legislation, Organizations, Programs
Among the many tragedies unfolding around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads is the one affecting the performing arts industry. The postponements, cancellations, and closures of performing arts venues have left an entire generation of actors, singers, dancers,...
by LouiseGund | May 15, 2020 | History, Organizations, Programs
As of April 30, 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) had produced confirmed infections in more than 3,200,000 people and killed more than 231,000 around the world. In the US alone, the virus had infected more than 1 million and killed approximately 60,000. ...
