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The holiday season has finally arrived. While the holidays bring joy, family, and good food, they can also bring stress about trying to find the right gift. Whether you’re shopping for a friend, significant other, or family member, this gift guide will help you find the perfect item for any kind of person in your life. First up on the […]
Unlike last year, the elections this year turned out more to my liking. Except for the ballot initiatives. It’s sad for me to see that groups like Open New York have convinced a majority of otherwise progressive New Yorkers to think that taking away local land use decisions and giving them to a central executive is the right thing. Regular […]
Encumbrance of things past. Of the many, many tributes to David Bowie in the years following his 2016 departure, one of the deepest was Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar, an instrumental interpretation of Bowie’s final album by cellist Maya Beiser with the Ambient Orchestra. Beiser is a goth-classical goddess and got much of the attention for that album, but just as […]
Power chord lunch. The sainted and venerated Joe Strummer warned us. We’d grow up and we’d calm down, he foretold. We’d start wearing blue and brown. Sorry to say, we’ve not yet aged out of the days of evil presidentes he sang about on “Clampdown” (recorded with the Clash for London Calling, one of the highest watermarks of punk) back […]
Happy Summertime everyone! It’s been a hot one, figuratively and literally speaking. Took a little vaca last month and put my musical musings on hold while I re-charged the proverbially batteries. But now your lovely Medea is back with a vengeance! Vengeance is a word that may bring aggressive images to front of mind. That’s a bit of a preview […]
Entering the 2025 Red Hook Softball League postseason, the seeds were 1: MiniBar 2: The Record Shop 3: The Wobblies 4: Hometown 5: B61 6: Bait & Tackle. Both MiniBar and the Record Shop secured byes, and on July 24, B61 beat Hometown 6-5, and the Wobblies beat Bait & Tackle 9-4 to set up the semifinals. After a rainout […]
Francesco Tamburini is a Professor at the University of Pisa and a recognized expert in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies. We have recorded this interview on June 26th, worried that the news coming from Iran would soon make our conversation outdated, but eventually we ended up discussing much wider issues on the Western civilization, China and the westernization […]
International students are increasingly targeted by the Trump Administration. Not only did the the president threaten to shut down Harvard to them, but he suspended visa interviews for all foreigners wishing to apply to any American university. Italy and the United States have a long history of academic collaboration, marked by institutions such as the Italian Academy at the Columbia […]
Our tech-dominated society is generous with its glimpses of dystopia. But there’s something especially chilling about the captive audience meetings in the documentary Union, which screened at the New York Film Festival and is currently playing at IFC Center. Chronicling the fight of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), led by Chris Smalls, to organize the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Staten […]
Nestled within the walls of Arlene’s Grocery on the Lower East Side, a vibrant pulse of sound and grit of resilient artists who just want to play great music. This November, a celebration of this music and its artists has arrived: Bands do BK Presents: The Music Matters NYC, is a VHS compilation capturing the electric heartbeat of NYC’s indie […]
