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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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FILM ARCHIVES

Kabei: Our Mother Zooms in on One Family in Rising Sun Japan

by Nick Pinkerton

May 20, 2009

FILM ARCHIVES

Love and Honor

by Aaron Hillis

October 23, 2007

FILM ARCHIVES

Love and Honor

by Aaron Hillis

October 23, 2007

Technology

A Hypnotic Samurai Film

by Michael Atkinson

August 8, 2006

FILM ARCHIVES

Prime Cut

by Michael Atkinson

June 13, 2006

FILM ARCHIVES

Samurai and Old Souls: A Look Back at a Legendary Japanese Studio

by Elliott Stein

September 6, 2005

FILM ARCHIVES

Codes Unknown

by Michael Atkinson

April 13, 2004

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