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SEALED WITH A KISS-OFF
Re '50 Years of Pissing People Off' [January 9–15]: Nat Hentoff has earned his recognition as a journalist and First Amendment–ist. This...
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"I'm one of those people who can just always find the dress. I can do that!" Phillip Bloch reminisces as we sit chatting at a really sad Golden Globes party. We're talking...
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Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute-band gig, I noticed that the majority of the crowd was Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems as if the crowd missed the exit to a ...
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When it's up close and personal, photography can really get under your skin. In these separate but related bodies of work, Katy Grannan employs California's paradisiacal...
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In The Age of Innocence, set amid the Old New York of Edith Wharton's youth in the 1870s, when the hero, Newland Archer, wants to be alone with his wife's cousin, the Countess...
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Everyman's Library has just released a single-volume collection of Flann O'Brien's five novels (778 pp., $25). Famous for writing one of the funniest books ever, At...
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"She can get kind of irritated," Elizabeth Crane writes, "with the whole metaphor thing they seem to be all about."
Crane is writing about Betty the Zombie, the eponymous...
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Since the departure of Jerry Saltz last March, the Voice has been assigning art reviews to several critics, all of whom work for us on a part-time, freelance basis. Each of...
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Here was Bill Clinton up in New Hampshire, his hair now silver-gray, leaning comfortably against the lectern, microphone in hand, surrounded by rows of rapt students and...
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The morning after the historical surprise in Iowa, people from all kinds of backgrounds were feeling good about themselves, welcoming the real possibility—whether or not...
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General Forecast Politics aside, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday could turn out to be quite romantic. The sexual tension generated between females and males by...
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Miguel Angel Zotto is the director, choreographer, and undisputed star of the Argentinean company Tango x 2. Like a stallion in the wild, he has his pick of the lithe, sexy...
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A naked woman stands before us—small, strong, with the calm face of a Piero della Francesca Madonna. I can't see much of the also-naked man who stands, bent-kneed, behind...
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A whole lot of black people are making Broadway alive again! First off, Passing Strange is "the moving and hilarious tale of a young black bohemian on a journey of escape and...
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It’s logical that Richard Siegal would give the title As If Stranger to the work he premiered at Danspace last week. It completes a trilogy, whose other components are...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19]
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year," said essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. That's my first suggestion for you this...
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“I don’t understand why this is happening,” whimpers an awestruck participant in the Cloverfield calamity. Quaking amidst the rubble of shattered condos,...
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“How does this compare to other film festivals, like Cannes?” asked an inquisitive woman seated next to me at a screening on the first Saturday morning of this...
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'I do not mind objects," pioneer conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner told an interviewer in 1969, "but I do not care to make them." Instead, the former painter became known for...
