Heather Robinson
The Archive
Top hotels should all be hosting health care workers now
The Four Seasons Hotel in New York recently opened its doors to first responders battling the novel coronavirus. A handful of other hotels, including the Plaza and the St. Regis,...
Lessons from Tree of Life one year after synagogue massacre
Sunday will mark one year since the Tree of Life massacre, the deadliest act of anti-Semitism in American history. It’s a day to reflect on the lives so brutally taken,...
Why religious movies like 'Breakthrough' are attracting non-believers
In the movie “Breakthrough,” a Midwestern Christian mother, played with uncanny realism by Chrissy Metz of NBC’s prime-time hit “This is Us,” relentlessly prods doctors to save her son, even...
Why Hollywood just can’t get it right when it comes to women
Two-thousand and eighteen was the year of the female avenger in popular culture. In a year bookended by Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes exhortation for greater representation of female stories and...
How my Pittsburgh hometown is coping with the synagogue shooting
PITTSBURGH — The Jewish community in this leafy Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill is painfully burying 11 of its members this week, after the idyllic peace here was shattered by...
Authenticity lets 'Insecure' rise above America's divisions
HBO’s hit comedy series “Insecure,” now in its third season, has been holding steady with a loyal and diverse audience, and it’s no wonder: In a time of divisive tribalism...
'Pretty Woman' heads to Broadway — still sugar-coating ugly truths
"Pretty Woman: The Musical,” an adaptation of the 1990 blockbuster film with Julia Roberts about a gorgeous, young prostitute and a handsome, taciturn billionaire who fall in love, is set...
What we can all learn from the trapped Thailand soccer kids
This week, the world watched with bated breath as 12 boys, members of The Wild Boars soccer team, and their coach were rescued from deep inside an underwater cave in...
On Independence Day, remember freedom depends on transcending divides
This Independence Day, instead of despairing over the country’s division, Americans might take a moment to consider that independence includes having the right to disagree without hatred or violence. Since...
What Mr. Rogers understood about NYC neighborhoods
Mister Rogers would’ve been sad about the way we treat each other. That thought occurred to me as I sat in a Kips Bay theater one afternoon last week, escaping...
'Roseanne' hasn't changed, but it's now radical in a profoundly different way
Millions of Americans tuned in on Tuesday for the fifth episode of ABC’s “Roseanne,” the popular reboot of the beloved ’90s sitcom starring comedian Roseanne Barr as a working-class mom,...
#MeToo also has us making more of the good guys
Hollywood is responding to #MeToo not just by telling stories of female empowerment but also of the quiet decency of many oft-overlooked men. And no wonder: Shouldn’t we as a...
Yes, it's OK to date across the political spectrum
Is President Trump making life difficult for Cupid? An April 2017 poll of 1,000 Americans conducted by Virginia-based Wakefield research found one in five Americans knew of a couple whose...
Dating in the #MeToo age
In the wake of a tsunami of allegations of sexual harassment against prominent men in show business, politics and media, and the stories of the #MeToo campaigns on social media,...
What city singles should be thankful for this holiday
What are New York’s singles thankful for this season? Are we thankful to live in a city where each new season brings an influx of men and women to this...
Why 'The Big Sick' resonates in the Big Apple
He’s a struggling stand-up comic, Pakistani-American, Muslim. She’s a graduate student, a white American from the South. They meet in Chicago and fall in love. That’s the plot of “The...
'Wonder Woman' wins by being feminist without bashing men
Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman” continues to break records as the most successful female-led superhero action movie ever — with New York packing theaters along with the rest of the country....
Ways to restore the romance that dating apps kill
From the mid-’90s arrival of Match.com through the launch of dating apps like Tinder in the early 2010s, technology has altered the way most big-city singles look for love —...
'April fools for love': the right illusions for successful dating
We’ve all been there. Some say you need to be a fool to fall in love, and maybe that’s true. Elvis Presley’s classic song, “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” while...