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News Schrödinger’s Home-Care Aide
Three years ago, my friend Vittoria Fariello approached me. She wanted to tell me about a bill she was advocating...
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News POLITICS: Bottcher’s aide wins special election
After a dominant showing on election night, Carl Wilson is poised to become the next representative of Manhattan’s 3rd City...
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News The Second Avenue Subway: It Only Took About 100 Years
The Second Avenue Subway was back in the news a few months ago when Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed that the...
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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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Features The Joy of Urban Gardening
I love being a sidewalk gardener on Bethune Street. When I moved into Westbeth Artists Housing, I spotted the nine...
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Features Where Do We Go When We Go for a Walk?
For fifteen years we had a dog, which meant that for fifteen years my days were meted out in companionable,...
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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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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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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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