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TESTAMENT TO A LOST NEW YORK CITY
When I interviewed Mikhail Baryshnikov in 2010, he told me that by the time GW Bush was elected, “New York was not as attractive to me as it was in the ‘70s. It had become very conservative. The young people … Continue reading
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WE CAN ONLY HOPE
The guys at Ring of Fire think that the reign of Fox “news” has come to an end. What I loved most about Fox was its arts coverage.
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LUDICROUS BEN SASSE
Sasse and his fellow Republicans have devoted their entire legislative agenda to creating a nanny state for millionaires and billionaires, brutalizing the poor, and cutting the ground out from beneath the middle class. Sasse was one of the most dumb … Continue reading
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ALLA OSIPENKO TURNS 85 TODAY
An International Living Treasure. One of the greatest of the great. With an extraordinary sense of humor to boot!!
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WALKING WOUNDED KELLYANNE CONWAY
An utterly shameless, reprehensible, truth-averse flack, mouthpiece for hate-mongerer Donald J. Trump, Kellyanne routinely spouts scurrilous lies and defamation, then runs to the succor of Fox “News” to spin victimization fantasies.
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CONFRONTING OURSELVES
“The United States is now a country obsessed with the worship of its own ignorance,” Tom Nichols writes in his new The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters.
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UP GOES THE BROWN PAPER
Another one bites the dust: Monument Lane, at the corner of W.12th St. and Greenwich Avenue is the latest magnetic, thriving Village eatery to abruptly fold up its tents, confronted by an obscene rent hike, no doubt.
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FOX “NEWS” WORKS ITS TONGUE TO THE BONE
Slurping Trump and his kids.
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TRUMP AND HIS GOONS
Who have done more to incite domestic terrorism and violence than any administration in living memory, rush to exploit the tragic shooting in Virginia.
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JEFF SESSIONS HAS HISSY FIT
Regina Giddens and Blanche Du Bois are each more forthright than this Beau. Racist perjurer Sessions doth protest, Oh, those vile, vile curs hurling innuendo at himself!
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