Getting Wet at the Chromat After-Party

Archive Highlights

FEATURE ARCHIVES

A Farewell to Machismo

“The macho man should be able to climb into a ring with a hangover and a bad stomach and win the title: he should be able to drink and whore all night and still work a typewriter the next day: and more than anything else, he must always be capable of an erection”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published December 15, 1975
MUSIC ARCHIVES

Girl Groups: How the Other Half Lived

“Girl group records were based in the relationship of a young girl and an older man (white, until Berry Gordy) who put her on a pedestal and held her in thrall; out of that relationship came some of the most urgent and intense rock and roll ever made.”

by Greil Marcus

Originally published September 8, 1975
POLITICS ARCHIVES

Memories of the Reagan and Bush Administrations

The '80s “empowered” icky crustaceans like Rush Limbaugh, Dinesh D'Souza, Allan Bloom, and Mary Matalin... ruminating on family values, the evil lifestyle of homosexuals, the glories of war, the absolute sanctity of money, and the motto of Republicans the world over: Admit Nothing, Blame Everybody, Be Bitter.

by Gary Indiana

Originally published January 5, 1993
COMICS ARCHIVE

Still Krazy After All These Years

“No less than Charlie Chaplin, its only pop rival for the affection of Jazz Age aesthetes, Krazy Kat synthesized a particular mixture of sweetness and slapstick, playful fantasy and emotional brutality.”

by J. Hoberman

Originally published June 3, 1986
NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

Sleaze-Out on East 14th Street

East 14th Street should have settled into a cycle of decline and upshift. Instead it was counted on 120-year skid that hasn't bottomed out yet.

by Mark Jacobson

Originally published November 14, 1977
NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

Dump the Trump

“The centerpiece of the scheme, the 150-story erection, is Trump's third go at the 'world's tallest building.' ... Was ever a man more preoccupied with getting it up in public?”

by Michael Sorkin

Originally published December 24, 1985