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Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent - When Words Take Flight
The Gul's unmissable new show at the Lucille Lortel Theatre is an ode to the written (and spoken) word.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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A Tale of Two New York Cities: From Hudson Yards to Hell's Kitchen
Notes on a 4-year sojourn among Manhattan's blue glassed sky castles
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A Night at Radio City Music Hall
A shooter on the loose, a new comedy special, and the journey of NYC's longest Banh Mi. Ronny Chieng's "Love To Hate It" tour kicked off with several…
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Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea
Substack invited me to live-sketch a rare night with iconic writers, Mary Gaitskill and Tavi Gevinson.
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3 Hot Hours Stranded on New Jersey Transit with Livid Passengers
"I repeat: There are no trains goin' in or out of New York. We don't know when service will resume. We apologize for the inconvenience..."
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MAD Magazine Finally Gets the Curtain Call it Deserves
The Usual Gang of Idiots were Demigods in my Pantheon growing up; The exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum is a perfectly curated collection of…
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NYC Is 'Dead' Forever: Here's Why Not
There are no single "Why I'm leaving NYC" essays that have aged more poorly or well than those of James Altucher and Jerry Seinfeld, respectively.
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The Worst Haircut Of My Life
Sweeney Blob: A traumatic run-in with the "Professional barber" on East 3rd street
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A New York Burlesque Show, A Crotch Muppet, The Stripper Police & A Belarusian Prison Guard
A Tiger Queen and a sexagenarian stripper on a Ukulele- What more could you want from a Burlesque graduation show?
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A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Piña Colada mix.
Another idiotic day in my life in New York, circa 2017.
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The New Yorker's 98th Birthday Party
A recollection on the Eve of its 99th
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