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News CAN WE BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING? Reinventing Community Land Trusts by Aligning the Community and Public Sectors
Last week Mayor Mamdani released his “Block by Block: The Housing Plan for A New Era” which aims to support,...
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News Whitman: The lower Manhattan primary field this year
As temperatures rise with the coming of summer, so too do political tensions as primary day approaches. On June 23,...
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News Meet-and-Greet and Assess and Vote
Political meet-and-greets are a funny hybrid, with two separate goals folded into one gathering. You go to get to know...
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Features Start spreading the fuse
It’s 3:30 pm, April 7, 2026, less than five hours before an entire civilization may be eliminated, according to the...
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Features Struggling to Live in a Construction Site
I can’t get anything done. I can’t write. I can’t take a Zoom meeting. I can’t even make a phone...
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Features My PhD in High Times
High Times a documentary short about the magazine and its founder Tom Forçade is now on Hulu as part of...
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Features FILM Barbara Kopple’s Documentary “American Dream” Saw It All Coming
Barbara Kopple’s 1976 film Harlan County, USA, chronicling the literal life-or-death effort to establish a coal miners’ union in rural...
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Features At BuskerBall, Street Performers Get Their Moment in the Spotlight
Robert Leslie’s audience is typically transient. They’ll pause to take in a song or two, maybe shoot a quick video,...
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Arts Action Painting with Jackson Pollock and Barnaby Ruhe
With Jackson Pollock’s huge historic work "7A" from 1948, which seems like the fairy tale cow to leap up in...
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Arts Eric Andersen Evokes the Village of the’60s
“I was walking down the street with Phil Ochs as we often did,” said singer-songwriter Eric Andersen at The Bitter...
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Arts Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50
One of the current exhibitions at the newly reopened Princeton University Art Museum, is “Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years....
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Arts A Memorable Meeting and the Merry Month of May In The Bohemian Continuum
The scene was Shalom Neuman’s exhibit at Art Expo on Pier 36 last month. Anyone aware of the ongoing art...
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Arts JAZZ: The Agony and Ecstasy of Record Store Day
Having mixed feelings about Record Store Day is the way. It looks like a holiday, sort of, but it’s like...
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Arts Theater: A walk down Lonely Street: A theatrical take on romantic catastrophe with “Heartbreak Hotel”
It’s almost inevitable. At each performance of Heartbreak Hotel, a theater piece by New Zealand playwright and performer Karin McCracken...
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Arts Theater: April: What’s Cookin’, Downtown?
Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival, or otherwise known as the FRIGID Fringe...
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Arts Karin Coonrod’s Masterful Spatial Dramaturgy in King Lear
Having first premiered in 2024, Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear triumphantly returned to the stage at La MaMa...
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