“The system was rigged against him. It's the same old Scott Joplin/Charlie Parker story, only with a different person. Julius is just another in the line of black geniuses who get squashed in this particular hemisphere.”

Still stuck in gridlock: A former ASPCA magazine editor reflects on what’s changed, or not, for horses working the city streets over the past 23 years.

“Thousand Yard Stare: Ukraine 2023,” an exhibition by Ukrainian artists, reveals ragged beauty amid evocations of trauma. 

The mayor is a master of retail politics, but voters might want results rather than platitudes come 2025. 

With Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull on tour in 2023, we turn to an archive piece from their Golden Anniversary tour, in which we pointed out that the Voice never much liked the lads from England. Is it time to give the old sod on the park bench a break?

In a year that needs a break, the cosplayers came and were seen.

From the archives: an explanation — and equivocation — from an all-lowercase writer.

Cooper Union is hosting the “Stop Trump Summit” — 25 bucks to rub shoulders in the Great Hall or livestream it for free. 

He kept the paper alive through the early, lean years.

The fundamental question about the Koch administration is no longer why the mayor gave power to so many crooks, but exactly what happened years ago when whistleblowers, law enforcement investiga­tors, and private citizens first tried to warn him