Indy at 15: Happy Birthday
Can I get this right? I ask the question whenever I touch the keyboard. My fingertips on the letters, I…
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Rats! Landlord Gets Tax Breaks, Bronx Tenants Get Squalor, Rent Hikes
In the depths of the crack era, 1111 Gerard Avenue was an oasis in the Bronx. “When I first…
A Decisive Year for NYC’s Embattled Public Schools
With 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools, New York City’s public school system is the largest in the…
Born to Be a Crony Capitalist: Here’s How Donald Trump Really Got Rich
Wayne Barrett recalls a night in 1991 spent gazing up at 106 Central Park South. Ten years earlier, the…
What’s a Feminist to Do? Clinton’s Run Surfaces Issues of Race, Gender and Class
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running hard for president. After 227 years of men filling this position — men who…
Movies: Confronting the Ghetto, From the Black Panthers to Hip-Hop
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Directed by Stanley Nelson (2015) Straight Outta Compton Directed by F. Gary Grey…
Exhibition: Praise the Lords: ’60s Puerto Rican Group Has Endless, Sprawling Legacy
“¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York” Bronx Museum of the Arts Through October 18 El Museo del Barrio…
Exhibition: The Forgotten Side of Folk Music
“Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival” Museum of the City of New York Through January 10…
Theater: Love, Infidelity and New Money
The Awful Truth Directed by Michael Hardart Metropolitan Playhouse Through October 18 How well do you know your own…
Community Events Calendar, October–November
THUR OCT 8 6:30pm • $5 DISCUSSION: THE CHANGING FACE OF ACTIVISM. This discussion on the evolution of social…
