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Follow the bouncing shiny object: An image labeled “Near Japan - 2024,” released in the first batch of declassified UAP files from the Trump administration, on May 8, 2026.

THE FRONT

Plan 250 from Outer Space: Trump’s ‘Look at the Shiny Object’ Strategy

by R.C. Baker

A mockup for mockery.

SEVEN DECADES

A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version

by Howard Smith & Brian Van der Horst

Americans talking — and listening — to each other.

VOICE CHOICE

‘Louder Than Guns’ Follows a Musician and a Journalist as They Seek Common Ground to End Gun Violence

by Laura Bell

Purple rays: Cactus Rose NYC has a busy summer in the city.

VOICE CHOICE

Ferry Yourself to Governors Island for Cactus Rose NYC at Porch Stomp

by Laura Bell

Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X.” This famous “double dolly” shot made it appear that the character was floating through Washington Heights, near the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated, in 1965.

VOICE CHOICE

Making Movies in NYC Might Seem Thrilling, But You Can Get the Real Dope at a Live Q&A

by R.C. Baker

Coming and going: A school bus and a VW bus run on flower power in the Bronx.

VOICE CHOICE

Find Your Good Vibrations this Summer at the New York Botanical Garden’s “Flower Power” 

by Laura Bell

L: The cover blurb that launched a thousand gossip columns. R: Photographer Sylvia Plachy accompanied Musto on his inaugural plunge into the NYC demimonde.

SEVEN DECADES

‘La Dolce Musto’ Came Hot Off the Presses in 1984

by Michael Musto

Purple rays: Cactus Rose NYC has a busy summer in the city.

VOICE CHOICE

Ferry Yourself to Governors Island for Cactus Rose NYC at Porch Stomp

by Laura Bell

“Love is a banquet on which we feed”: Patti Smith at an ACLU/NYCLU benefit in 2022 at NYC’s Town Hall. She returns to that storied stage this Sunday for “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.”

VOICE CHOICE

‘Rise Up, Sing Out’ for Democracy’s Most Fundamental Freedoms

by Laura Bell

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Chris Ofili

ART ARCHIVES

Chris Ofili’s Long-Overdue Retrospective at the New Museum Is NYC’s Comeback of the Year

by Christian Viveros-Fauné

November 12, 2014

ART ARCHIVES

The Studio Museum’s ‘We Come With the Beautiful Things’; Dan Wynn at Farmani Gallery

by Robert Shuster

July 28, 2009

MUSIC ARCHIVES

Ryan McGinness, God’s Phallus, and Chris Ofili

by R.C. Baker

October 16, 2007

ART ARCHIVES

The Devil and Chris Ofili

by Daniel Kunitz

October 9, 2007

MUSIC ARCHIVES

Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

by Jon Caramanica

January 8, 2002

ART ARCHIVES

Man in the Middle

by Jerry Saltz

October 5, 1999

MUSIC ARCHIVES

It’s the Shit

by Vince Aletti

November 3, 1998

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