Musicals bore me, but I love Keith Haring. I also remember the Paradise Garage. So I went to the spanking new musical, "Radiant Baby," last night at the Public Theater. Second row. One of the c...

Joe Ovelman opened a really, really great photography and video show at Daniel Silverstein Gallery last night. We've followed Joe's work, and enjoyed living with a lot of it at home from the very ...

I went to the INS Building this morning to be a part of the demonstration against "Special Registration." What I really did was join about two hundred people who are willing to make at least a sm...

This administration does martial plans, not Marshall Plans: billions for offense, not one cent for reconstruction. Paul Krugman speaks of the proud, generous and sensible postwar U.S. which, yes,...

Barry posts this tonight: I think the logic of all of the people who say anti-war protesters are coddling (or appeasing) a dictator boils down to this: "If those Iraqis knew what was good for the...

Isn't there another real New Yorker out there right now besides Jimmy Breslin? Today he writes, just before citing Wayne Barrett in this week's Village Voice, that he usually doesn't quote other p...

We can't help Dan'l. Dan'l can't help us. It turns out that he was not being sarcastic when he ended his account of being handcuffed and searched by subway soldiers with assault rifles sunday nig...

Great! You still have a chance to see David Neumann's brilliant creation, "Sentence," at P.S. 122. We were there tonight and I can honestly tell you that it was one of the richest theatrical perf...

What an incredibly powerful piece! Nathan Newman compares the new Israeli wall separating Arabs from the Jewish part of Bethelhem to the Warsaw Ghetto. When the Nazi comparison is made, Israel d...

The Israeli author Amos Oz explains why "many decent people of enlightened and pragmatic views oppose an invasion against Iraq." And I do object to an Iraq invasion — because I feel that extremi...