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News Battle to save East Village church goes to the Vatican
Brody Hale describes himself as “the poorest lawyer you’re ever going to meet,” but it’s his fierce intensity, sharp tongue...
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New School unions continue fight against cuts and layoffs Entering the Spring semester at The New School, the New Students...
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News Landmarked Soho building at risk due to loophole
“Please allow me to demolish this building so I can build luxury condos.” That, in a nutshell, is a derelict...
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Features Coping with snow and ICE
A few days after the January snowstorm, I started to get cabin fever. I couldn’t believe I was actually looking...
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Features Memoirs: Who Knew?
The first book I ever bought that was written by someone I knew was a French memoir called Frany, one...
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Features Drinking with Katherine: T.J. Byrnes…No jokes but lots of stories
Hanging on the walls of T.J. Byrnes are a couple of funny little plaques, one entitled “A Mother’s Letter,” and...
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Features COFFEE CORNER… A barista is more than just a job
For this month’s “Coffee Corner,” I spoke to Paulina Stachnik, who runs Madman Espresso & Bakery on 332 Bleecker St....
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Features Eve Zanni: A Different Kind of Capital, by Layla Law-Gisiko
On Friday afternoons, the community room at Westbeth artist building performs a small act of defiance. The room itself is...
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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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Arts My friend Umberto Eco
November 19 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the death, at age 84, of philosopher & novelist Umberto Eco. For...
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Arts A CATHOLIC REVIVAL IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM, by Stephen DiLauro, photo by Andrew Unangst
Before anyone takes umbrage at the linking of Catholics and bohemians, please allow me to do a bit of historical...
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Arts Ezra Johnson’s fauvist simplification
A ring of hefty paint cans on the floor confronted me upon walking into the Ezra Johnson show at the...
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Arts Valentine’s Day poems
Small Pleasures of a Long Marriage I asked my husband: Cumulus and cirrus, but what’s the third one? Thromboid,...
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Arts Brain Insurance: “The Reservoir” marks NYC debut of playwright Jake Brasch
“Here we go. Here comes the sober. I hate this part, when the dam breaks and the questions come pouring...
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Arts IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM – February
Feeling Violated, Authors? “Move fast and break things” has been a recurring motif in the rise of tech moguls. In...
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Arts The Brood in Revue
I spent the first week of October aka the official beginnings of spooky season reading The Brood, Rebecca Baum’s latest...
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