Saturday, November 22, 2014

Hand to Mouth: My Story

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I recently started reading Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America , Linda Tirado’s book about her experience with poverty. Whil...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Birdman Doesn’t Fly

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 I had high hopes for Birdman , coming as it does with a well-known director (Alejandro Iñárritu, of 21 Grams and Babel ), a first...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Sad Demise of Dojo, the Deplorable Rise of Brunch, and the Death of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Manhattan

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 This afternoon I was supposed to have lunch with a friend of mine and his husband at Veselka, the last Ukrainian restaurant standi...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Bedbug and the Angry Itch

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 The most imaginative piece of theater in New York right now is happening in a church basement on West 71 st Street. I’m speaking ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

How to Survive Being a Middle-Aged Gay Man in New York

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 Yesterday I found out on Facebook that a man I know who was about my age and was a fixture at a certain gay bar I frequent passed ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

My Late (Almost) Conversion to Beyoncé and Jay-Z Fan

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 There’s one thing to be said for HBO’s 24/7 marathon presentation of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run concert, which I have now see...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Fuck You, New York

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Increasingly, people are saying “Fuck you!” to New York. Fuck the high prices, fuck the noise, fuck the crowds, fuck the rude beh...