Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
Witness the Birth and Evolution of a Genius: Three Early Makoto Shinkai Films Land on Blu-ray June 16, 2022
National Park Service NPS Geek Adventures: Fort Stanwix National Monument Our quest to all 419 National Park Service sites makes a stop at Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, New York. By Jamie GreeneSeptember 10, 20200
Featured Post NPS Geek Adventures: Women’s Rights National Historical Park We geek out about the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with a visit to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca ... By Jamie GreeneAugust 18, 20200
Backroads Travel Tread Lightly Over History and Rubble on a Hard Hat Tour of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital The Ellis Island hard hat tour is an opportunity to visit the south side of the island where the immigrant hospital sits, decaying ... By Jamie GreeneJune 6, 20190
Performances Melissa Benoist Sparkles in Her Broadway Debut as Carole King in Beautiful I’m going to admit right up front that I’m not much a regular viewer of the DC superhero shows on the CW. Aside ... By Jamie GreeneJune 19, 20180
Annual Events Play Fair 2017 Toy Unboxing For the past few years, I’ve attended Toy Fair in New York and come away with nothing but good things to say about ... By Jamie GreeneOctober 27, 20170
National Park Service NPS Adventures: General Grant National Memorial The Roarbots’ series of NPS Adventures takes a big-picture view of one location within the National Park Service and highlights some of the best activities ... By Jamie GreeneMay 26, 20170
National Park Service NPS Adventures: Federal Hall National Memorial The Roarbots’ series of NPS Adventures takes a big-picture view of one location within the National Park Service and highlights some of the best activities ... By Jamie GreeneJanuary 27, 20170
National Park Service NPS Adventures: Hamilton Grange National Memorial The Roarbots’ series of NPS Adventures takes a big-picture view of one location within the National Park Service and highlights some of the best activities ... By Jamie GreeneJanuary 24, 20170
Performances The Illusionists: Turn of the Century on Broadway The Illusionists: Turn of the Century playing at the Palace Theatre (New York City) dates: now through January 1, 2017 Roar Score: 4/5 A bit of ... By Jamie GreeneDecember 7, 20160
Performances Cirque du Soleil: Paramour (See here for more Cirque du Soleil reviews from The Roarbots!) After more than 30 years and nearly three dozen different shows, Cirque du Soleil ... By Jamie GreeneJune 29, 20160
Museums The Discovery of King Tut Exhibition Manhattan is a mecca for world-class museums, and there’s certainly no shortage of genuine art and artifacts from Ancient Egypt. The Metropolitan Museum ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 25, 20160
Museums Star Wars and the Power of Costume Discovery Times Square has become one of the hottest go-to venues for nerdy exhibits and traveling shows. The space recently hosted the incredibly ... By Jamie GreeneDecember 29, 20150
Museums New-York Historical Society: Superheroes in Gotham Superheroes and popular culture. They’re like peanut butter and jelly. For almost as long as there’s been a “popular culture,” there have been ... By Jamie GreeneNovember 20, 20150
Museums Avengers STATION The Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N exhibit in Times Square is something I’ve been looking forward to seeing since it opened. However, first things first. That acronym? ... By Jamie GreeneNovember 12, 20140
Backroads Travel Santa’s Workshop (North Pole, NY) “Christmas in July” is one of those phrases that has kind of lost whatever meaning it originally had. A couple weeks ago, though, ... By Jamie GreeneJuly 17, 20144
Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
Witness the Birth and Evolution of a Genius: Three Early Makoto Shinkai Films Land on Blu-ray June 16, 2022
90 Days of Huel: I Drank My Food for Three Months. Here Are the Results. September 23, 201959753 views