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Lily Koppel's Quest to Return a Diarynew
While reading the diary, Koppel discovered a vivacious, curious young woman growing up in New York during the tail end of the 1920s who was constantly searching for an identity and questioning her thoughts and emotions.
Baltimore City Paper |
Josh Marx |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Organizers Confront the Genre's Image Crisisnew
Wes Jackson has planned a broad lineup that represents various stages in hip-hop's existence from new artists to performers fro mteh golden age and elder statesmen.
New York Press |
Billy Jam |
07-10-2008 |
Music
Cracking Down on Brooklyn Stoop Drinkersnew
Along with rolling blackouts, broiling heat waves and Chinatown's unholy stink, outdoor drinking is a summertime staple.
New York Press |
Joshua M. Bernstein |
07-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Gunnin' for That #1 Spot' is Like a Better 'Hoop Dreams'new
As Nathaniel Hörnblowér, he's directed a gazillion Beastie Boys videos, but here, Adam Yauch profiles nine high school kids (including Lake Oswego's Kevin Love and Medford's Kyle Singler) as they gear up to play in the annual "Elite 24" basketball game at Harlem's Rucker Park.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
06-27-2008 |
Reviews
Why Michael Bloomberg Shouldn't Run for Governornew
An interesting idea, sure, and a tasty bone to gnaw on for the next 18 months; but to many political observers, this one just does not make sense. He could try, but would he really want this job, regardless of the continuing platform it would give him in public life? The answer, according to many who know him and have watched him as mayor, is no.
New York Press |
Edward-Isaac Dovere |
06-19-2008 |
Politics
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks Return to the Stagenew
The seminal No Wave freak scream act, will play two shows at the Knitting Factory. The performances are timed with the release of No Wave: Post Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980, a photographic and oral history edited by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.
New York Press |
Georgia Kral |
06-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Will Johnson and Centro-matic Finally Graduate to Bowery Ballroomnew
From one-man sets at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar to full-band, what-American-rock-should-sound-like engagements with Centro-matic at Mercury Lounge and Union Pool, Will Johnson has headlined at New York's smaller stages in an almost Sisyphean effort to return to the city.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
06-12-2008 |
Concerts
Illegal Immigrants Find Out that Brooklyn isn't All Skinny Jeansnew
Sangre de Mi Sangre is decidedly not a fun, sexy summer movie, eschewing as it does romance for tentative connections forged in desperation, and fight scenes dripping with money for gritty life-or-death lunges on the streets of a Brooklyn rarely seen on film.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
05-15-2008 |
Reviews
Taking the Train from D.C. to New York Without Ever Boarding Amtraknew
It's no wonder that Amtrak rules the well-traveled path up and down the Northeast Corridor. It's fast, the stations are conveniently located, and it's comfortable -- but that comfort comes at a price -- $97 for the regular train and $188 for the high-speed Acela. So I found another option.
Washington City Paper |
Joshua Kucera |
05-09-2008 |
Transportation
Environmental Racism in the South Bronxnew
One in four children in the Hunts Point neighborhood has asthma. While urban planners and public health specialists are still struggling to find the cause for the community's disturbingly high asthma rates, for parents like Tanya Fields there is no question that it's the air they breathe that makes their children wheeze.
New York Press |
Gabriele Steinhauser |
05-08-2008 |
Science
Everyday People Are Being Priced Out of Baseball Fandomnew
The Mets and Yankees will open their swanky new ballparks next season. It's just too bad nobody I know will be able to afford to see them from the inside.
New York Press |
Emma Span |
04-17-2008 |
Sports
Roll Call for the 2008 Muzzle Awardsnew
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression honors -- if that's the right word -- those who engage in "especially egregious or ridiculous" acts of censorship.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
04-09-2008 |
Civil Liberties
America's Sneaky War on Speeders
Cash-starved states are jacking up fines for speeding by thousands of dollars per ticket. Advocates worry about clogged courts and working-class motorists losing their driving privileges and thus their jobs.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-30-2007 |
Transportation
Bombs Away!new
Our critic's list of great movies that other critics hated includes Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Gigli.
Lady on the Lakenew
There's a Rodin bust of Camille Claudel at Crown Point -- who knew?
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
04-26-2006 |
Art
