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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Remembering "Die Fledermaus" on Live from the Met -- December 31, 1986

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In NYC the ultimate New Year's Eve tradition is the ball drop in Times Square. In Europe, there's another grand tradition -- a perfo...

Into Eternity

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As COVID-19 enveloped NYC in 2020, many of us quarantined and worked from home. It hasn't been easy, in fact, it's been totally mise...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The Path to 2021 in NYC

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The New Year's Eve "ball drop" in Times Square has long been a beloved traddition in NYC. However, with literally a million-pl...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Ernst Haas NYC Photos 1952-1962

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Right after WW2, a Viennese photographer and refugee named Ernest Haas came to NYC and spent a decade taking photos of the city. These have ...
Monday, December 28, 2020

The Village Voice Lives!

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Two years ago The Village Voice went out of business , a depressingly familiar victim of technological change and indifferent nouveau owner...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Michael Alig Goes to the Eternal Party

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Two-and-a-half years ago I did a short interview with former party promoter/convicted murderer Michael Alig. In the 1980s and early 1990s h...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Review: "Night on Earth" (1991)

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Jim Jarmusch is one of the most successful independent movie directors of the last forty years with such classics as Stranger Than Paradise,...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

NYC Reimagined

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You think a person, place or thing is "one thing" (good, bad, or otherwise) and then events ensue or new information comes to ligh...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Remembering MetroTV

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In the early 2000s, New York City was recovering from 9/11, the twelve years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's reign were just starting, and ...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

NYC Gets into the Holiday Spirit in the Age of COVID-19

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