New York

It’s Another Vacation Week!

by Michael Musto

December 13, 2010

Well, they don’t roll over, so I’m grabbing this one before it evaporates like my neck.

Please entertain yourselves by rereading the old blogs and reposting your hateful and/or appreciative remarks.

Or just wait!

I’ll post the new column on Wednesday. Then I’ll roll over.

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Sylvester: Staying Alive

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by Barry Walters
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“For the first five years that I was writing for The New Yorker,” says a longtime contributor, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”

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by bell hooks
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Andy Warhol’s Pop Riot

“The sophisticated audience that had turned out to put down the art that was not on display provided a chilling touch of surrealism worthy of Buñuel or Fellini”

by David Bourdon
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by Vít Horejs & Bonnie Stein