Verunka's Voice

*image is used courtesy of hotblack(Morgue stock photography).

I spend a lot of time at the 49th street station here in NY because I temp at a company near there and for the past few months I have been noticing some really cool things happening to the advertisements in that station.

I just got Waldemar Matuska’s CD on iTunes and I am in heaven! He is definitely one of my favorite singers of all time! He is very animated which makes all the difference in the world.

(Image used courtesy of taliesin turtlehawk2002@yahoo.com) NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NYC Metro will be holding an education event on June 26, is “Mental Illness and the Mind-Body Connection”.

Times Square is bustling with people at all hours of the day. I know because I walk through there every day to get to my temp job.

(Photo courtesy of: © 2010 Scott Rudd www.scottruddphotography.com) Marina Abramovic. She is amazing. I have never been a fan of performance artists in general because I always felt that people were trying too hard and it never came from a genuine place and they were just there to shock you. My friend, Phyllis Chen, introduced me to Marina and I am now sold. I have learned that in any type of performance, if it comes from a genuine place, b...

Many people that know me, know that Puccini’s opera, Tosca, is my favorite opera of all time. I got a chance to see it last night at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, live, for the first time in my life.

On April 25, 2010 there will be a Mental Health Film Festival at St. Francis College 182 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights (For tickets call Carla at 212-780-1400 x7726) $5.00 if bought ahead of time and $7.00 at the door. This starts at 12:30PM and here are the movies: LENS & PENS shows those with criminal backgrounds changing their lives due to an art program. TO SEE WHAT I SEE depicts mental health recipients telling their personal reco...

I do earn the bragging rights here! My fiance, Jacob and his partner Vijay at Oorby Studios, created an amazing Music Ear Training App for the iPhone and iTouch called Music Head- an Ear Training Game. Anybody that studied music in their life knows how it felt studying for all of those music exams with the same boring games…now this is different! It is a card matching game, but instead you match sounds. As you match the sounds (pitches,...

I have always been a huge fan of black and white photography. One day I came across the One in 8 Million section on nytimes.com. I go back to it every so often so that I can go inside the world of another person that lives in New York. There are so many interesting stories and they vary from The Urban Taxidermist to The Ladies’ Man.