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News Trump’s assault on education as viewed from Europe
International students are increasingly targeted by the Trump Administration. Not only did the the president threaten to shut down Harvard...
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News City is sabotaging the Dapolito Rec Center
A crowd of fired-up Villagers converged on the corner of Clarkson and Varick Streets to demand that their beloved and...
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News Promised affordable housing yet to be delivered
“A scam.” That’s how Manhattan District 1 Council Member Christopher Marte characterized the SoHo-NoHo-Chinatown rezoning plan, which he’d vehemently opposed,...
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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 Gay restaurants were never just about the food by Michael Quinn Review of “Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America’s Gay Restaurants,” by Erik Piepenburg
Appetizer I stepped into the original Fedora, on West 4th and Charles, nearly 20 years ago. I was looking for...
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Features Could our national corrosion have started with the silverware? by Michele Herman
The kid working the counter at my local West Village hardware store had an unlit cigarette in his mouth the...
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Features Drinking with Katherine: Fanelli’s
The first time I went to Fanelli Cafe (at the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets), I was meeting my...
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Features “All Over” sends dancers all over Westbeth, story and photos by Kate Walter
The 15th annual WestFest Dance Festival took place from May 1-4 at Westbeth Artists Housing with four nights of performances...
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Features Melting down in lockdown, book excerpt by Kate Walter
I called my sister to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She has four daughters and nine grandkids. “I know this...
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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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Arts Jazz 2025: The Mid-Year Report, by George Grella
People frequently (that is, once every few years) stop me on the street and ask me, “George” (no one really...
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Arts June Cinema Agenda: NYC Independent Film Festival returns, John Cazale at Film Forum, and Monica Vitti at Lincoln Center
Film festivals love to profess their indie bona fides, regardless of how institutional (Tribeca) or industrial (Sundance) they’ve become. (The...
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Arts Art and science are symbiotic at Pioneer Works’ magazine “Broadcast”
Michael Jones has worked in many different industries — as a manager for Brooklyn synthpop duo Holy Ghost!, at Vice...
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Arts Durga Chew-Bose Reimagines Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse
In her book-to-screen take on Bonjour Tristesse, writer Durga Chew-Bose crafts a lush atmosphere as meticulously and stylishly as she...
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Arts 22 year-old Cameron Winter has got the buzz
You wouldn’t expect an album titled Heavy Metal to be performed in a church. But then again, nothing about Cameron...
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Arts No more Kostabi World?
Of the artists who rose from the 1980s East Village to prominence, Mark Kostabi is certainly in the top tier,...
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