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. . . HAM-HANDED
The viciousness and inappropriateness of James Hannaham's review of Charles Mee's plays True Love and Big Love demand a response all the way from the Pacific...
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LAURIE CHURBA
Age 32
Resides Manhattan
Occupation Costume designer
Was 2001 your worst year ever? Oh, yes, definitely. The collision of events has brought everything to a...
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New Year's in New York is traditionally a very international affair, but this time around it's a little different. The WTC disaster seems to have rendered more than a few...
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Froofy boutique bars and fancy-pants Euro wineries are so last year. So is shelling out big bucks just to get drunk. Like many of her fellow New Yorkers, Spartos trades...
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Long live the mystic loners. Among them, Emily Dickinson and Henry Darger—two death-obsessed American homebodies, reclusive geniuses whose work was discovered...
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A decade before the symbolism of the World Trade Center doomed it to destruction, architect-author James Sanders began researching the idea of New York in a century of movies....
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The rest of America may believe Manhattan is the modern equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah (all recent protestations of sympathy aside), but New Yorkers know better: They point...
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Jack Cole was a masterful comic book artist who helped define the golden age of his art form. In the early '40s he looked at sideshow freaks and a new wonder material that was...
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My administration will continue to speak and act for as long as the persecution and atrocities in the Sudan last. —George W. Bush, speaking before the American Jewish...
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An organization that represents black police officers announced a federal lawsuit against new york city earlier this month, claiming the new york police department secretly and...
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OFF-COLOR REMARKS
Nearly 20 years after Howard Cosell infamously referred to Redskins kick returner Alvin Garrett as "that little monkey," Monday Night Football is still the...
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Take away the John Rocker jokes, and this year's baseball winter meetings sounded more like a meeting of the G7 nations. Revenue streams. Budget gaps. Economic inequality. And...
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Usually, HBO is careful about airing boxing's dirty laundry, but with two mediocre boxers in Evander Holyfield and John Ruiz fighting for the WBA heavyweight title on December...
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Only a sick few might have imagined invoking the name of Timothy McVeigh before September 11. Yet since that apocalyptic day, people the executed white rightist might have spat...
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My most trusted ally thinks I shouldn't call us "hawks," and maybe she's right—it's catchy, but misleading. We're not hawks as that label was understood in the Vietnam...
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As they have been so often in the 28 years since Roe v. Wade, abortion rights supporters are once again on the defensive. This might seem strange, given that the most...
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After December 11, when The American Prospect axed senior editor Ana Marie Cox, the media gossip machine went into overdrive looking for a villain. Was Cox guilty of "not being...
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There weren't any surprises in the foreign-aid bill Congress passed last week, least of all in the appropriation the U.S. handed Israel: more than 17 percent of the entire...
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Even after recovery workers at the World Trade Center site clear away the massive steel debris and uncover land on which new buildings and a memorial can be erected, we will...
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When you enter the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel through the Park Avenue lobby, you step upon a 148,000-piece tile mosaic, "The Wheel of Life," which depicts the drama of human...
