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News Jan Castro’s Village Art Scoops
This month’s Village-based scoops surprise me. I’ve heard and seen works by John Cage, Allen Kaprow, George Maciunas, and Naim...
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News Power Trip
New York City’s mandated cell phone dark day, set for November 28th will be very interesting indeed. Why the Powers...
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News What’s Cookin’ Downtown?
Fear not, New York! There is plenty of joy waiting to be felt despite the quiet darkening of our days...
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News Star-Revue contributor wins Ringo Award
Red Hook-based cartoonist, and The Star-Revue’s very own Dean Haspiel won Best Short Story at the ninth annual Ringo Awards...
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News Jack Whitman’s political scene: What will the Democrats do with their expected victory on Tuesday
Many will be reading this post election day, but I am writing the Sunday before. Democrats appear poised to capitalize...
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News Working to preserve the East Village
The pursuit of preservation is alive and well in the Lower East Side with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative...
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Features Becoming an Artist in NY
While attending the garden party luncheon of my friend Muffy Stout in Georgetown, I met a group of Art patrons....
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Features Autumnal Thanksgiving in the Bohemian Continuum
There is so much going on this month that it seems gratitude should be first on the agenda of the...
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Features PEOPLE OF The Village
I thought it would be timely to ask the people of the Village how they felt about ICE, after one...
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Features The Espresso Machine and It’s History
‘Tis the season for flavored and themed coffee drinks. Whether a pumpkin spice latte, an apple spiced chai latte, a...
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Features My Pot Dealer’s Dying Gift
When legal weed dispensaries first opened in the Village, I wondered how this competition would affect the old-school pot dealers....
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Features Me and David Rockefeller
(Authors note: As of this writing it is three days before the midterm election, which will determine whether we throw...
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Arts Tess Rowan: Nature, Community, Theatre, and That Secret, Unknown Space
Field Notes: Storytelling Expeditions is “an ongoing project series of storytelling expeditions.” The face behind it is NYC-based artist Tess...
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Arts Scooter LaForge Has a Thing for Clowns
I met the artist Scooter LaForge years ago at an art opening (not his), where I was struck by how...
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Arts ART: Krasner Pollack Met Retrospective is Past Continuous
When I was in college and supposed to be doing coursework, I was often in the Gelman library reading Gertrude...
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Arts BULLETINS FROM THE MAGIC UNIVERSE: THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES A GOOD BOOK TO READ TODAY
This piece covers the career of Andy’s most successful book, the explosive Andy Warhol Diaries edited by Pat Hackett. Originally...
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Arts Notes from NYFF 2026: The Audacious Humanism of ‘South of Tehran’ and Clinical Brutality of ‘NAZA’
Is it possible for the best film at this year’s New York Film Festival to be an 8-minute short? There’s...
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Arts An Artist’s Statement
The Jets just proved they suck again but it was fun while it lasted … for a week. I was...
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