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When it's clear you're gone from New York for good, this weird phenomenon occurs in which home becomes the place where you live and the life you're living squeezes out the life you left behind.
It was inappropriate to deny playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree. Although, in my judgment, he is hostile to the State of Israel, he was not being honored by John Jay College for his views on Israel.
Gov. Cuomo will convene a summit later this month to consider a proposal by SUNY at Buffalo to give the university greater autonomy. This is an important proposal that deserves support.
If you don't yet know about the best kept secret in NYC, then you are missing out on one of my favorite summer activities, the Rooftop Films Summer Series.
History is repeating itself on Broadway. Ben Stiller made an auspicious Broadway debut in a revival of The House Of Blue Leaves 15 years ago. Almost to the day, he stars in a new mounting of John Guare's blackly comic play.
The latest NYC school scandal doesn't involve test scores or arbitrary school closings, but something more relevant to the way in which schools are being run: the bottom line.
When women earn more, families are stronger and children have better access to quality health care and education. We must close the chronic wage gap that shortchanges women.
"Give a horse a nut," says John Ruskin, "and see if he can hold it as a squirrel can." The great English critic was, in the fall of 1857, apparently in the midst of a "great horse-controversy."
The Seattle Mariners have dumped Milton Bradley. Not a surprise. Despite being paid $12 million this season, he's batting .218. Which team will now hire him and proclaim, "He's a changed man"?
The Airborne Toxic Event has sort of a magical thing going on. You can identify with most of their songs, and on Friday, an NY crowd ranging from tweens to older men sporting port bellies surely did.
The just-launched Personal Localized Alerting Network will allow government officials to send text-like alerts to everyone in a targeted geographic area with an enabled mobile device.
Teeth of the Sons' jagged, emotional escalation and sharp narrative focus epitomizes the kind of work that Barefoot Theatre Company brings to the stage.
If a majority of voters support gay marriage, but most of the voices being heard are against it, the problem for legalization advocates is not the message, but mobilization.
London. Johannesburg and Nairobi. Fort Worth, St. Louis and San Diego. Tokyo and Manhattan. And Astoria. What do they all have in common? Well, let's see... Matthew Peipert.
For years, sports team owners and leagues have played on our loyalties and preyed on our wallets, forcing even the most marginal fan to subsidize sports stadiums and arenas that then enable them to charge us ever-higher prices for tickets to games.
Making pizza is the best thing in the world, and it's so much more satisfying to make your own stuff. Even if it doesn't taste better, you think it does -- and that's all that counts!
For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the sidelines, well, a lot has happened since then.
New York City teachers and the United Federation of Teachers have initiated a militant and radical response to the latest budget cut proposals made by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
I'll share a little secret with you: sometimes, I'm happy when a real estate deal dies sooner than later. A quick demise lets me dodge discussing the intricacies of a plumbing's inadequacies.
Peter Mehlman, 2011.05.10
