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Alex Trebek and Me

I met Alex Trebek one day in the mid-1970s, about 10 years before he started his long-running gig as the host of Jeopardy. The staff at New York magazine received word (maybe from Best Bets editor Ellen Stern, who seemed to know everyone and everything in New York City) that a new game show was …

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R.I.P John Simon

My friend and former colleague John Simon passed away Sunday night (November 24) at the age of 94. John was a brilliant litterateur, a critic of steadfast standards and ideals, and the smartest, most erudite and well-read man I ever knew. I first met John in the mid-1970s at New York magazine. I was taking …

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Loft Lawless

(Para leer en español, entra aquí.) *** “The closer you are to this deep purple area, the more you should stay away…” —Julia Salazar, State Senator, 18thDistrict * Greenpoint and Bushwick, Northside, East and Los Sures “Southside” Williamsburg, where generations of laborers work enla fabricas, reduce as they draw attention—the more built upon the less seems …

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Ophion

Flexing, the often amazing and ubiquitous style of street dance that originated in Brooklyn, comes in many forms and flavors. These days there is so much overlap and multi-layered influence in dance in general that I hesitate to give any style outside of pure classical or tap a label… great dance just speaks for itself …

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s New Misguided Admissions Policy

New York’s Metropolitan Museum, one of the world’s greatest art museum, a private institution in a New York City-owned building, just announced a change in its nearly fifty year-old “pay as you wish” admissions policy. Below, are the new conditions: • Current pay-as-you-wish policy will continue for all New York State residents and students from …

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T/Here in Williamsburg, Part 5: Let Me Die With The Philistines

Entonces Sansón dijo al muchacho que lo tenía de la mano: “Déjame tocar las columnas sobre las que el edificio descansa, para apoyarme en ellas.” –Judges 16:26 “Lost is the name of the Ocean.” –Zarur, Facebook comment (February 2016) “How malicious philosophers can be!” –Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil * The strongest evidence for …

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