Published: October 21, 2010
Unless you’ve made a concentrated effort to avoid the mainstream media in the last year, the phrase “Tea Party” probably elicits very different imagery today than...
Published: October 7, 2010
These are trying times for the New York City smoker. Already pressed to pay over twice the national average for a pack, tobacco enthusiasts are likely about to have it even...
Published: May 5, 2011
Chances are if you’re reading this you’re a student, and the word “free” makes you salivate. In a city that demands so much from its student’s pockets, stockpiling...
Published: May 5, 2011
In 1997 a young Vassar graduate named Mark Rosenberg set up a 16mm projector on his rooftop in Manhattan and screened short films for some 300 strangers. The immediate...
Published: April 13, 2011
There was a moment of striking sincerity after the April 7 screening of “To Sleep With Anger,” one of the films featured at the Charles Burnett retrospective...
Published: March 30, 2011
If there’s a consistency that feminist artist Judy Chicago should be credited with, it’s that she lacks subtlety. From photography to stitch work, when Chicago has...
Published: March 2, 2011
Preston Miller always takes Sundays off. It’s more than a ritual. “Sundays,” he says with a grin, “it’s Bears all day, baby.” It’s not hard to understand...
Published: February 16, 2011
When George C. Scott became the second actor in history to refuse an Oscar in 1970, he told one reporter bluntly, “The whole thing is a god-damn meat parade. I want no...
Published: February 2, 2011
On Jan. 15 the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) in Astoria, Queens opened its doors again after closing for major renovations in 2008. Alongside the old displays that...
Published: December 09, 2010
There’s an unassuming quality to the photography currently on display in Fordham University’s Center Gallery. The 37 photos are not bound by any particular theme or...
Published: November 17, 2010
Two years of preparation came to fruition on Thursday, Nov. 11, when Fordham’s Keating Hall filled to capacity as the chosen venue for the annual Opus Prize, one of...
