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Haute punk art star Marcia Resnick leaves us a legacy, both in photographs by her … and of her. Smart, sophisticated and sexy, she rode the crest of Downtown Manhattan’s ascendance a half century ago. She was a regular at the hotspots, appearing in her trademark Hell’s Angel/ seductive schoolgirl attire and taking studio portraits

Bookbinding, like book publishing in general, is on the decline. But if you walk down the stairs at the front of the old-tenement building at 135 Henry St. on the Lower East Side, you’ll find a man plying that trade the same way he did 40 years ago — and moreover, he’s still very active.

Appetizer I stepped into the original Fedora, on West 4th and Charles, nearly 20 years ago. I was looking for a place to have a quick drink. Its neon sign drew me to its ivy-covered building, its entrance a few steps below street level. Inside: red light, a pink portable stereo on the bar next

The kid working the counter at my local West Village hardware store had an unlit cigarette in his mouth the whole time I picked his brain about the silver-plate wearing off our flatware. This was a year or so after I innocently used the liquid dip-it silver polish after a lifetime of the pasty kind

The first time I went to Fanelli Cafe (at the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets), I was meeting my boyfriend at the Angelika Film Center on West Houston Street and needed to grab a bite beforehand. I chowed down on a burger and fries ($22, plus $1 for cheese) and itched to strike up

 The 15th annual WestFest Dance Festival took place from May 1-4 at Westbeth Artists Housing with four nights of performances at the Martha Graham  Studio Theater on the top floor of Westbeth. But the super popular (free) highlight was two afternoons of site specific dance performances on Saturday and Sunday all over the Westbeth campus.

I called my sister to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She has four daughters and nine grandkids. “I know this might sound crazy,” I said, “but I’m really glad Mom is gone and not here for this.” My sister said that she was thinking the same thing. We would be so worried, even though our

For so many of us, coffee and tea are part of our daily lives. Today I want to dive into the topic “Coffee Drinker vs Tea Drinker” what are the differences…the debate begins as it is often thought that the difference between coffee and tea drinkers is not just in taste preference, but also in

I dropped a book off at the little free library near my apartment and a passerby stopped to ask if it was any good. The novel, Russian Gothic, is dark and horrible. The woman walked away, calling over her shoulder, “I get enough of that in the news!” I commiserated. I had started the month

I’m aware that some people cringe at the thought of attending a literary reading. Otherwise sophisticated people have even been known to sneer at the very term reading, particularly when prefaced with poetry, in that voice Giuliani used when he described Obama as a community organizer. But hear me out. Readings—prose, poetry or both; with