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Why is 574 Fifth Avenue, a former brownstone mansion transformed in the 1890s into one of Fifth Avenue’s most interesting and important low-rise commercial structures, being demolished to allow some internal mall project that’s already too big to become even … Continue reading →

For a long time my father had his office at 401 Broadway, and I was in the area a lot. Believe me, Canal Street was bustling. Any moron knows that. But not, apparently, the upscale forces of hyper-gentrification. It’s galling to … Continue reading →

She and her clown act are as tacky as they come, which makes her perfect for Fox “News,” and she’s demonstrating more than ever that she’s nothing but a me-too lying member of the traitorous Fox tag team. P.S. It’s … Continue reading →

Ernst Lubtisch’s 1923 silent Rosita features what may very well be Mary Pickford’s finest performance, in an atypical role for her–she’s an adult, and she’s a light-living street singer. Tomorrow night at the Museum of Modern Art, a digital restoration … Continue reading →

Sniveling crybaby Trump cancels summit because his feelings have been hurt, while Evil Minder Bolton smolders with war-fever in the corner of the playroom.

“Tristam Pretorious” at Daily Kos reminds us that “Until 1973, federal law did not encourage health insurance providers from functioning under a profit motive.” And this scribe has reams of corrobatory evidence.

The latent affinities between professional sports and totalitarianism in America were just cranked up a notch when the NFL capitulated to Herr Trump’s demand that sideline protests be banned. The NFL is a bullshit organization that should now be boycotted. … Continue reading →

The DOJ can and will be extorted. By Trump. It was today. This can’t go on.

Is to inform working Americans what Neil Gorsuch and the right-wing-extremist Supreme Court majority is doing to them.

Isn’t it a law, an axiom? That’s why I just had to plop into Tallulah’s 1927 tub on Farm Street in London, quite a few decades after she’d last had her final bubble-infused script conference there.