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News People of the Village, by Lisa Gitlin
New York Jews have strong feelings about what’s happening in Israel and Gaza. They don’t always agree. This subject is...
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News Coming Out for Mamdani, by Kate Walter
On Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day, members of New York City’s LGBTQ community did just that—to show their support...
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News “106 Lobbyists”: Deborah Glick battles for environment and more, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“The end of civilization!” That’s how Deborah Glick caustically characterized the Kraft company’s description of the packaging reduction bill she’s...
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Music Jazz: Ancient Stories, by George Grella
There’s something I’ve said frequently while writing about classical music for the last couple decades, which is that there’s no...
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Music Jazz by Grella: Leadership Secrets of Miles Davis
First, the good news: the Library of Congress last month added new albums to its National Recording Registry, which preserves...
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Features Utopia on a plate: Community Kitchen’s exquisite experiment, by Phyllis Eckhaus
Eating’s a basic biological act, but like sex, it’s so much more. What we eat and how we eat it...
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Features The Art Deco buildings in Chelsea, by Raanan Geberer
When people talk about Art Deco architecture in New York, some think of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State...
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Features The tale of Stan Mack, illustrator as storyteller, by Doug Latino
At a time when newspapers and magazines were central to American life, Stan Mack was part of the revolution of...
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Features Easy Costumes for Hard Times, by Phebe DuPont
Inspired by the spine-chilling, awww-inspiring, tired, and timeless costumes of Villagers this year. Let’s hope a few of my references...
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Features “A Sustainable Village” figures out zero waste, by Michele Herman
Let’s talk shampoo, a conversation that I think is long overdue. For years I bought mine from Arrojo, a local...
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Arts Fernando’s Liquid Architectures, by Lee Klein
The current oeuvre of Fernando Pomalaza, a Peruvian-born, New York City based artist (who for many years showed at the...
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Arts Film Review: “The Mastermind” is a Throwback Tonic for Our Streaming Slop Moment, by Dante A. Ciampaglia
Kelly Reichardt might be one of our era’s most subversive filmmakers. In this attention-addled age, cinema has gone increasingly loud,...
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Arts Quinn on Books: Pabst Blue Ribbon, by Michael Quinn
Review of “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin by Michael Quinn A director has...
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Arts BOHEMIAN VIBES IN THE DOWNTOWN CONTINUUM, by Stephen DiLauro
I used to be half of a musical act named Working Class Bohemians. The name choice was mine. I got...
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Arts Xhloe and Natasha prepare U.S. debut of “What If They Ate the Baby?” story by Mark Dundas Wood
The New York–based performance team of Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland (billing themselves simply as “Xhloe and Natasha”) has —...
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Arts My month of culture in the East Village, by Kathryn Rose Rieber
Among the urban renewal disillusionment of gentrification and post-disaster capitalism exists an oasis of boundary-breaking, artist respite, a well of...
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Arts Drinking with Katherine: 2nd Ave’s “The Sly Fox”
At 5:30 p.m. one Wednesday, I stopped by Sly Fox only to find the door locked, the lights off. Forlorn,...
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Arts From Beckett at the NYFF to America’s Crack-Up in Glorious VistaVision, by Dante A. Ciampaglia
This is the third New York Film Festival I’ve attended as a critic, and increasingly I’ve found myself foregoing the...
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