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Offerings from local working-class heroes and global superstars make our music critics’ list of the year’s best records.
It was almost 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and I was standing on the corner of Essex and…
Superb Humanity: A Christmas Fairytale
Everyone saw something different in the stain, but everyone agreed there was something there. Ms. Nancy, who was always…
Hank’s For All The Memories: A Long-Standing Boerum Hill Haunt Bites the Dust
Ernest Hemingway wrote of the importance of a “clean, well-lighted place.” I would counter that a dark den of…
She captured the intimate moments behind the lesbian liberation movement of the 1970s.
What if you had your own guaranteed income, six month’s paid maternal leave, free health care and government-subsidized daycare? …
‘¡Las Sandinistas!’: A Revolution Remembered
Las Sandinistas, a new feature-length documentary film that examines the Nicaraguan revolution of the 1980’s, arrives in theaters at…
Coming Out On the Field: ‘Mario’ Confronts Taboo in Men’s Sports
After premiering to acclaim in Europe, Mario — a moving coming-of-age tale of love, homoeroticism and repression within the…
The Past Comes Alive with Frightening Results in John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’
Antonio Bay is a small town with a big problem. It seems the California fishing village was founded on…