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News Adams using November’s ballot proposals to hand over the city’s future to the real estate lords, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“More affordable housing in New York City!” is a universal rallying cry and political platform. You could almost imagine there’s...
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News Community Board 2 and 3 Wrap up for Summer Break in August and Prepare for Community Summer Events, by Sherica Daley
Community Boards 2 and 3 head into summer break in August. For their respective July meetings, that meant housekeeping on...
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News Disability activists rally in Washington Square, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“Disability rights are human rights! The future is disabled!” Perhaps two hundred shouting and signing disability activists, many in wheelchairs,...
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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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Music MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk
Punk’s not dread. Back in the ’90s, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon had “Girls invented punk rock, not England” emblazoned on...
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Features People of the Village, by Lisa Gitlin
This is my first column for the Village Star Revue. Getting the attention of people on the frantic streets of...
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Features Drinking with Katherine: Commodore II with Katherine Rivard
In the NYC 2025 Primary Election Voter Guide, sixteen of the twenty mayoral candidates listed affordability or a related factor...
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Features Sometimes a writer has to act too, by Michele Herman, photos by Peter Yesley
When I was a kid, I had a dream, a wonderful dream. I would dress up in my parents’ clothes...
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Features Coffee Corner: Do You Know About the Coffee Flower? by Dana Costantino
The coffee flower...these delicate white blooms are not only beautiful but also integral to the coffee plant’s life cycle and...
Read More Features Carrying on the summer legacy, story and photos by Kate Walter
I was standing outside our family beach bungalow at the Jersey Shore, watering the garden, when a neighbor greeted me...
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Arts Roberto Azank “Palette Homages,” by Lee Klein
New York City painter Roberto Azank always surprises. Having been called the “chromatic Mozart,” as he can and has harmonized...
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Arts Poetry and books in the downtown continuum, by Stephen DiLauro
In July I set out to discover what exactly is the state of poetry in downtown Manhattan. NY Poetry Fest...
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Arts Quinn on Books: Nice Girls Don’t Go to the Bowery Review of “The Bowery,” by David Mulkins, by Michael Quinn
Before there was a city, there was a crooked path. Today, we call it the Bowery—one of New York’s oldest streets...
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Arts TIMES AND SPACES IN THE DOWNTOWN CONTINUUM, by Stephen DiLauro
Living downtown, one must be open to a steady stream of surprising new events, people, spaces, energy, vibrations, delights, and...
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Arts Private Life is a criminally slept-on New York City movie about hope, by Brookie Mcilvaine
Private Life opens on the lower half of Rachel’s body, expectant. She’s clothed in only underwear, supine in dim lighting,...
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Arts Chashama celebrates 30 extraordinary year,s by Stephen DiLauro
It’s a carnival of performance art. It’s wilder than any drug-induced hallucinations. It surpasses any cinematic version of Carnival in...
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Arts LILI White’s Pastels of the LA Wildfires, by Lee Klein
The rolling hills and mountains of Southern California, the biosphere, the range of climates from desert to snow covered peaks...
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Arts MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk
\ Sultry haze of balmy nights. The Egypt-born, Quebec-based singer/composer/producer Nadah El Shazly has built a following in recent years...
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