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If you want to find a mirror of a society's ideal---the image of what it hopes and imagines itself to be---public sculpture is as good a place as any to start, and none is more common or readily available than the public sculpture we carry around with us on the Read More
Last week, a special election was held for Bronx Borough President, a job which, since the Charter reforms of the early 1990s, is largely ceremonial. The marvelously named incumbent, Adolfo Carrion, had resigned office to accept appointment as Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs....The Assemblywoman's name rang a chime in memory. She had been Read More
Theodore Roosevelt, that most virile of presidents, insisted that, "To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people." With that in mind Read More
Occasionally, we think about investments we could have made that might have made us rich. Armed with clairvoyance, who would not have sunk the farm into Microsoft, back when Bill Gates was a nebbish? But we probably would have put our money into AT&T, U.S. Steel or Western Read More
Phoebe Snow started here. I mean the train, not the singer--although she started here too, come to think of it. Born in New York City, she borrowed her stage name from the premiere express train of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, "The Route of Phoebe Snow," "The Road of Anthracite," which passengers boarded by taking a ferry boat from the railroad's lower West Side ferry terminal to the massive Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey. Read More
New York Press, November 6, 2001
Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things; Strindberg's Dance of Death with Mirren and McKellen; Artistic disarray at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater
There's some first-rate acting going on at the Promenade Theater, where Gretchen Mol is appearing with Paul Rudd, Frederick Weller, and Rachel Weisz in a new play by Neil LaBute called The Shape of Things. The play is part comedy of sexual manners and part drama of sexual intrigue, which is to say that it feels a little like Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago or Howard Korder's Boys' Life while you are watching it, and like Dangerous Liaisons afterward.
LaBute is a filmmaker with something of a reputation for "misogyny," or so reviewers keep saying. Actually, his work appears no more anti-woman than Mamet's… Read More
In 1900, when newspapers were still the only mass media, over thirty daily papers of general and specialized circulation were published in Manhattan alone. But by the Twenties, a combination of massive capital investment and increasing difficulties in getting through traffic jams to deliver the newspapers to customers made launching Read More
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