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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 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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Features Manhattan – No Country for Older Men
Robert Deniro’s famous quip that New York is dead to him north of 14th Street sounds more like something Leo...
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Features First Fridays at Westbeth
Last December I was sitting in an intimate space with great acoustics, listening to the John Eckert Quartet. The veteran...
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Features Coffee Corner: The Perfect Cup at Sant Ambroeus, West Village
Coffee at Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, on the corner of West 4th Street and Perry Street, is something...
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Features Garber’s Isn’t Going Away
Walking down Greenwich Street recently, I came upon a sight that chilled my West Villager’s heart: a giant For Rent...
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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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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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