Year: 2011
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How Dare I Slam the Square!
Living just a block away from Times Square, I’ve become accustomed to swarms of tourists hogging the sidewalks. But around this time of year the sheer number of out-of-towners makes me want to pull out a bazooka and gun ’em all down. The Americans are overly enthusiastic and horribly dressed, the Europeans are fussy and…
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Old Gray Lady Adores Old Blond Lady!
I knew a New York Times review was coming for Lady Bunny’s cabaret show, That Ain’t No Lady. Last week I pitched in by working the box office, when the guests included one of the paper’s theatre critics, David Rooney. Well, his review is out and it’s a rave—the sort of high-falutin’ praise that every entertainer longs…
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Nightmare Before Christmas
The thought of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his Stepford wife Callista in the White House gives me chills!
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The Glory of North Korean Art!
Call me a red-bellied Communist but I won’t deny my fascination for the stylized realism of North Korean painting. HEROIC DEPICTIONS OF ITS LEADERS! IDYLLIC SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE! ANTI IMPERIALISM PROPAGANDA! Even the cruelest dictators like art.