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News POETRY AND CRUELTY IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM
“April is the cruelest month,” is the famous first line of T.S. Eliot’s 434-line poem The Wasteland. Poetry hasn’t been...
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News NYU’s non-tenured faculty win their first contract after two-day strike
After 17 months of negotiations and two days of striking, almost 1,000 non-tenure track faculty at New York University agreed...
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News Endorsement: Layla Law-Gisiko for City Council
If you've been a close reader of this paper the past few months, you've probably figured out that we are...
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Features THE RAMONES NEW YEARS EVE CONCERT THE RAINBOW THEATRE LONDON 1977
At the end of 1977I flew to London to join the Ramones for their New Year’s Eve Concert at the...
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Features Music: Wiggly Air with Kurt
Liquid Years. The last day of last month marked 40 years since the release of Philip Glass’s Songs from Liquid...
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Features ART:The Interpretation of the Dreaming
Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert. January 22-April 11, 2026. Grey Museum, New York, NY The...
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Features FILM: “Allegro Non Troppo” is a savagely entertaining comix fantasia at Disney’s expense
Walt Disney’s 1952 film “Fantasia,” a 125-minute abstract interplay between classical music and modern animation, opens with musicians tuning up,...
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Features Familiar and depressing themes as Cold War Choir Practice moves from the East Village to Hell’s Kitchen
At a concert in a church in June 2025, singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche mused on the nature of live performance. “Maybe...
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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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Arts Endless Waiting for “The Endless Garment”
On a snowy Sunday afternoon, you go to Pioneer Works looking for a poetry book. “The Endless Garment” is related...
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Arts TNC’s Croquet Player, a great night of theater, both entertaining and thought provoking
In the old days, when I felt like hearing music without having to go through the Village Voice ads, I...
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Arts GODLIKE by Richard Hell
As part of my voracious reading as a teen, I enjoyed Somerset Maugham’s The Moon And Sixpence, loosely based upon...
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Arts BOOKS: At the Bookstore, the Play’s About to Begin
On the second floor of McNally Jackson at the South Street Seaport, in the children’s section of the bookstore, a...
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