Jalue Dorje knew it would be the last big party before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in a Minneapolis suburb, where he grew up like a typical ...
The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile.
Then they got real. Two young actors were prepared to work hard to make it in New York theater. The rental market proved to be cutthroat. A rent-controlled apartment is a rare thing, and so is the ...