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News “106 Lobbyists”: Deborah Glick battles for environment and more, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“The end of civilization!” That’s how Deborah Glick caustically characterized the Kraft company’s description of the packaging reduction bill she’s...
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News Community Board News, by Sherica Daley
The Community Board 2 full board meeting met at the NYU Gould Welcome Center on Oct. 23, and the Community...
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News East Villagers remain confused about community center as board remains silent, by Peyton Rohr
The Sixth Street Community Center conflict between the board of directors and former executive director, Howard Brandstein, continues to play...
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Music Jazz by Grella: Leadership Secrets of Miles Davis
First, the good news: the Library of Congress last month added new albums to its National Recording Registry, which preserves...
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Music MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk
Punk’s not dread. Back in the ’90s, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon had “Girls invented punk rock, not England” emblazoned on...
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Features “A Sustainable Village” figures out zero waste, by Michele Herman
Let’s talk shampoo, a conversation that I think is long overdue. For years I bought mine from Arrojo, a local...
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Features Sasaki Garden, a Place of One’s Own, by Barbara Kerstetter
As these late golden autumnal afternoons turn into evening, I’m likely to walk through the NYU-owned and maintained garden near...
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Features Coffee Corner, with Dana Costantino
Coffee and the Holidays: A Cup of Comfort and Joy For many, coffee is more than just a morning ritual;...
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Features A thousand boots, by Joe Caccamo
Is it just me or do you also see about thousand maps of Italy every time you look down at...
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Features People of The Village, where we talk to everyone, by Lisa Gitlin
New York Jews have strong feelings about what’s happening in Israel and Gaza. They don’t always agree. This subject is...
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Arts From Beckett at the NYFF to America’s Crack-Up in Glorious VistaVision, by Dante A. Ciampaglia
This is the third New York Film Festival I’ve attended as a critic, and increasingly I’ve found myself foregoing the...
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Arts TITS UP BIG APPLE: LUCINDA’S by Medea Hoar
Hi ya’ Manhattan-ites, Medea Hoar here with all things fun and festive in the Village. In spite of a love...
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Arts Roberto Azank “Palette Homages,” by Lee Klein
New York City painter Roberto Azank always surprises. Having been called the “chromatic Mozart,” as he can and has harmonized...
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Arts Poetry and books in the downtown continuum, by Stephen DiLauro
In July I set out to discover what exactly is the state of poetry in downtown Manhattan. NY Poetry Fest...
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Arts Quinn on Books: Nice Girls Don’t Go to the Bowery Review of “The Bowery,” by David Mulkins, by Michael Quinn
Before there was a city, there was a crooked path. Today, we call it the Bowery—one of New York’s oldest streets...
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Arts TIMES AND SPACES IN THE DOWNTOWN CONTINUUM, by Stephen DiLauro
Living downtown, one must be open to a steady stream of surprising new events, people, spaces, energy, vibrations, delights, and...
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Arts Private Life is a criminally slept-on New York City movie about hope, by Brookie Mcilvaine
Private Life opens on the lower half of Rachel’s body, expectant. She’s clothed in only underwear, supine in dim lighting,...
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Arts Chashama celebrates 30 extraordinary year,s by Stephen DiLauro
It’s a carnival of performance art. It’s wilder than any drug-induced hallucinations. It surpasses any cinematic version of Carnival in...
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