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"They look like hookers in the red-light district of every city in the world,” the sourpuss next to me says, gazing at the parade of shell-shocked beauties loping down...
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César Ramirez, a longtime protégé of David Bouley's, is busy manning the month-old kitchen at Bar Blanc, where he makes things like confit of baby pig...
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Man, maybe we do need Obama. For sure, we need change—something, anything, because it's nasty out there, cold, with a slashing Chelsea wind. Everything I responded to...
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An independent film and video artist who came of age with Godard and fellow Germans Fassbinder and Herzog, Harun Farocki has created over 90 works during the past 40 years....
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One of the most memorable images from the 2002 Whitney Biennial—and perhaps from any of the Whitney's recent biennials—was AA Bronson's Felix, June 5, 1994...
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The protagonist of Susan Choi's stunning new novel, A Person of Interest, sleepwalks through life like someone escaped from a lost verse of "Eleanor Rigby." A 65-year-old...
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His Illegal Self—the latest novel by two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey—is, among other things, a name game. Seven-year-old Jay discovers he's also called...
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As he crouched down on the Cobble Hill sidewalk, Ellis Gallagher used a piece of chalk to outline an elegant shadow cast by a streetlight. The 34-year-old artist is known in...
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Say this for Hillary Clinton: She is not one of those fainthearted politicians who
flees from friends and allies when the going gets tough. Take this vicious ongoing assault...
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Last April at Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa, a Democratic presidential candidate said of the present incumbent that "by condoning torture, kidnapping, and...
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If the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots this Sunday in the Super Bowl, historians may peg the turning point of the 2007 season to a hot summer's afternoon at the...
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Rocky Sullivan's Tap Room in Red Hook is a fitting joint to throw a wake for the Atlantic Yards resistance movement, and not just because it's an Irish pub. It stands in the...
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New Yorkers are not only nominating presidential candidates in the state primary next week; they're choosing party delegates for what may be the first contested national...
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For six months, the SEIU's local 32BJ union—an organization of local churches that calls itself Brooklyn Congregations Together—and members of the St. Paul Community...
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Last week, the suits were working hard on their booze intake at Ulysses' pub, a tony bar and oyster joint just south of Wall Street. And no wonder: Following a global panic,...
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Re Tom Robbins’s ‘The Clintons’ Grim Fairy Tales’ [January 23–30]: I cannot tell you how disappointed I am to see The Village...
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General Forecast Faithful readers already know that Mercury turns retrograde on Monday, the 28th in Aquarius, the sign of satellites, socio/political concerns and the...
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When I tell people I write about cybersex, I get a lot of curious reactions. I’ve grown used to, for example, the “Oh my God, you’re secretly a pervert”...
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A living legend doesn’t usually blush when praised, laugh about past blunders, or recall saying “Oh my goodness me!” when first informed that Queen Elizabeth...
