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Republicans love the myth of creative destruction, the idea that capitalism needs to annihilate old markets to create new wealth. In fact, Mitt Romney has made a fortune from...
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James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony.
It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak...
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Good news for those seeking a decent apartment in NYC: They're available, even if you're fresh out of college with an entry-level job. At least according to realtors. I...
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To begin its second decade as the largest and most aggressively marketed survey of new movies in New York, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 18–29) is raising its...
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You can't imagine how many complaints I've fielded from Angelenos who can't stand NYC's Mexican food. Invariably, the tortillas are all wrong, the tacos filled with funny...
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A surface reading of the stage name Questlove suggests that its owner, Roots drummer Ahmir Thompson, is on the hunt for romance, or that he embraces the journey he has taken....
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To hear retrospectives tell it, the '80s were an endless parade of Day-Glo, rap breaks, and excesses on the parts of stockbrokers and the people responsible for Michael...
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Almost every day of his adult life, Tennessee Williams wrote. He cultivated an indulgence in alcohol, in various prescribed and unprescribed medications, and occasionally in...
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Maly Drama’s staging, in Russian, of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, at BAM’s Harvey Theater, includes a pillow fight, a joke beard, a gargantuan fur hat,...
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You don't have to understand the intricacies of Korean manners to enjoy Hong Sang-soo's subtly mortifying comedies. Nor do you have to be on familiar terms with the effects of...
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In near-total darkness, under a barrage of ear-destroyingly loud music, some kind of horrific act of violence is taking place, involving figures in grotesque animal masks,...
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On Monday, the playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes switched on her phone, which she’d silenced for several hours while leading a writing seminar at Wesleyan University. She...
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If you ever wondered what the love child of Bill T. Jones and Peter and the Starcatcher would look like at a fraction of the price, journey to Morningside Heights this weekend...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19] You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That's the bad...
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Dear Mexican: How come there are a bunch of fair-skinned European-looking guys running Mexico? When I am in Mexico, I see them having power lunches in fine restaurants,...
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I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli just a few hours after seeing...
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Guess when Lawrence Kasdan wrote this line of dialogue: "The point is there's a gulf in this country, an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff and the people...
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Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola Créton), a highly emotional high school girl...
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It’s Nicholas Sparks’ world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven’t scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical salesman...
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Although it's steeped in tragedies both personal and cultural, this contemplative, gorgeously shot documentary-fiction hybrid from husband-and-wife auteurs Israel...