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The Independent Budget Office (IBO) — at the request of Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, and New York City Council Members Joe Borelli (R-South Shore), David Carr (R-Mid-Island), and Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore) — released a report estimating the...

"We artists can do much more to give music a greater meaning"

On a combustibile moment such as this, with Putin’s Ukrainian war poisoning the atmosphere,what could America and Russia still have in common? Experimental poetry is the unlikely answer. And, even more unlikely, it took a bunch of devoted  Italian experimentalists...

The East Side Access is a megaproject that connects the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to Grand Central Terminal, giving commuters from Long Island the option to travel directly to East Midtown, reducing congestion at the overcrowded Penn Station. The...

Hardly ever do you get to taste Italian cuisine this authentic in New York City. In the small room of Red Inside Culinary, at 109 MacDougal Street, a homey space overlooking a professional kitchen, chefs Massimo Andrea Di Maggio and...

The Italian Cultural Institute in New York will host a screening event of the movie I Nostri Fantasmi (Our Ghosts), on Monday, November 14.  The 105’ minute movie, is directed by the the Italian Alessandro Capitani. For fear that the...

Performers get a rousing standing ovation from a gleeful audience

Americans, and particularly New Yorkers, know and love the Third Millennium works of Dimitris Papaioannou, now a world-famous regisseur/choreographer of physical/total theatre. The Greek artist’s show Transverse Orientation is on at the Brooklyn Academy of Music/BAM’s  New Wave Festival (7 -11 November) and,...

In New York City a gala organized to honor Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, Dr. John Di Persio and Dr. Gigi Lozano

The Marianne Boesky Gallery’s new exhibition, Model ___, will open on November 16. The exhibit will showcase the solo work of artist Dashiell Manley, for the third time in the gallery’s history. Model___ tries to make sense of the world by...

****/ ***** (four stars out of five) The very idea of a Broadway Musical about the world of rock n’ roll is antithetical to the whole concept of the genre. So when Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” bursts onto the stage...

In a New York Times article on the gubernatorial race between Kathy Hochul and Lee Zeldin, the writer notes that it started out as a prospective “blowout”.  That was a reasonable expectation in the staunchly Democratic blue state. Indeed, the...