April 2025

Linder in London: Charting a Course from Buzzcocks Provocateur to Brit Art Treasure

Arts & Entertainment

When U.K. punk band the Buzzcocks were looking for cover art for their 1977 Orgasm Addict single, twenty-three-year-old Linda Mulvey had just completed a graphic design degree at Manchester Polytechnic. The band settled on one of Mulvey’s untitled photomontages for their cover—a naked female torso with a steam iron instead of a head. A year […]

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Trump cuts to World Trade Center health program trigger bipartisan criticism

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President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the federal agency overseeing health services for survivors of the September 11th attacks have triggered widespread condemnation, including from Republicans worried the reduction will jeopardize a program that has symbolized the government’s commitment to victims of a defining event of the last quarter century. On Friday, Health and Human

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Despite federal risks, Council pushes $4B in budget spending on housing, libraries

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City Council leaders will push to boost spending on housing, education and parks in the upcoming budget, pointing to billions of dollars in additional money that they say Mayor Eric Adams’ administration overlooked. The council released its official response on Wednesday to the mayor’s $115 billion budget proposal for the 2026 Fiscal Year, drawing battle

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Freed of Federal Charges, Defiant Eric Adams Says He’s ‘Gonna Win’ Reelection

New York Today

With his federal corruption case behind him, Mayor Eric Adams stood on the back steps of Gracie Mansion on Wednesday to defiantly declare he is  going to run — and prevail — in the upcoming mayoral race.  “I’m running for re-election and you know what? I’m gonna win,” he said.  It was a striking scene

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In Her Hong Kong Debut, Dominique Fung Reckons With Ancestral History

Arts & Entertainment

Dominique Fung’s paintings contain something profoundly ancient yet unmistakably contemporary. Ancestral images and symbologies surface across her canvases, suspended in a fluid, dreamlike dimension where time and space dissolve into one another. For her debut show in Hong Kong with MASSIMODECARLO, the Brooklyn-based artist continues her excavation of imaginary worlds, channeled through her Hong Kong

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Musk-Bashing Is the Answer to Keeping Democrats United

Discussions

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The most tiresome intra-Democratic debate of them all soon reached crisis levels after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Should the “party of the people” focus on the threat to democratic institutions MAGA authoritarians most definitely pose? Or should they instead pursue lost non-college-educated voters via the ancient “populist” formula of class

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Owner of two hit Italian eateries buys Village site known for Mexican joint

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An owner of two trendy Italian eateries in the Flatiron District may be setting his sights on Greenwich Village. David Switzer, a partner with chef Stefano Secchi in the six-year-old award-winning Rezdora on East 20th Street and sister restaurant Massara that opened around the corner on Broadway last year, has purchased 86 University Place for

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