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First of all I'd like to give a shout-out to God for letting me write this column. I also want to thank my mom, my dad, my grandma, my sisters and brother and every single...
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"Am I the only survivor?" The question pops into the conversation innocent and unexpected, the way someone might ask whether it's still raining outside. But when Maria Irene...
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For a Summer issue in 1971, MAD magazine artist Al Jaffee wrote a prescient satire of some creepy new machines called computers. In a strip anticipating cybersex, a guy goes...
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Sunday night, instead of attending the Emmys in Los Angeles, Frances Edwards sat at home in New Jersey watching the glittery ceremony on television. She was shocked when James...
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New York City's latest landmark to political corruption is a squat, one-story post office located at 2727 Mermaid Avenue. Here, surrounded by the towers of Coney Island's...
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Barbara Sorel lived a lonely, thwarted, marginal life. As she always used to tell her few friends, who knew her only as Sorel, she was everything America hated: a Jewish,...
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It was born by accident, then nurtured like a calling, humble-but-lovable Dixon Place quickly developed into an indispensable part of the late-'80s theater scene. Today, it's...
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Not the way echinacea is good for you, or the way the Soloflex is good for you, but good like gardening or travel. Video games are nutritious for the imagination. Now, you...
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Good games are as much about atmosphere as adventure. The spooky video game Shadow Man, from Acclaim Studios Teeside (released on PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and PC), is steeped...
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The last good game I played was at the old Playland in Times Square a few
years back. Every afternoon, the arC would fill with businessmen on their lunch breaks, random...
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When will you apologize Haniti for the Rape of Abner Louimas character & reputation? It was forethought & systematic you skumbag. The guy should sue you. What you did...
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It may have looked like just another worthy offering from the paper of record, but 'The New York Times"s page-one, column-one story on September 7 caused a huge stir in city...
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The weekend summit in New Zealand further elevated Clinton in his new role as world statesman, with the lame-duck president making inroads on China and pushing Indonesia's...
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Fajardo, Puerto Rico As he was about to board promoter Don King's private jet, which would fly him from his native Puerto Rico to Las Vegas for his showdown with Oscar...
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What's the toughest thing in sports? Hitting a baseball? Stopping a slapshot? Listening to Dick Vitale do color?
My $.02? None of the above. The hardest thing is closing out a...
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It wasn't until a couple of years after she had played in the Women's Professional Basketball League in the late '70s, Mariah Burton Nelson told the crowd at a forum on gays...
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Back in the '60s, revolutionary agendas in African American choreography were more likely to be political than artistic. Artists broadcast messages of protest and empowerment...
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From 500 applicants the folks at Colloquium Contemporary Dance Exchange chose 125, scattering them onto concert programs over 11 days. If you bought a "dancecard" for $10 at...
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My tired ass has watched Wigstock morph over the years from an East Villagey performance-art showcase to a splashy showbiz parade dripping in production numbersbut what...
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When the stripper's-worst-nightmare-
for-a-mayor first began his bogus, antisex "rezoning plan," I heard that adult playgrounds would be relegated to industrial areas in the...