Beloved teacher, translator, poet, scholar, and mentor, Allen Mandelbaum died on October 27th, 2011 at the age of 85. Mandelbaum is perhaps best known for his award winning translations of The Divine Comedy and the Aeneid, which won him the National Book Award in 1973, but he also...
On approach, Death By Audio, one of Brooklyn’s Do-It-Yourself, all-ages concert venues, is unassuming – and strikingly so. The north side of South 2nd Street’s sidewalk runs unevenly, from solid concrete slabs at the corner of Wythe Avenue to mid-block cracked asphalt and unkempt...
In many respects, 2011 has been marked as much by the mayhem of nature as it has by the upheavals of men. While challenges to political authority have captured the imaginations of millions and produced exciting tremors of revolution across the continents, Mother Nature’s increasingly...
Tony Kushner’s latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Guide to the Scriptures opened this month in New York to critical acclaim. But praise for Kushner, whom many consider the greatest living American playwright, was drowned out by outrage...
In a wave of global protests that indicted the lack of vision, courage, and responsibility on the part of their elders and political leaders, young people in Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, France, Puerto Rico, and Greece have recently taken history into their own hands. Fighting not merely for a...
Popular media has portrayed the 2010 midterm elections as nothing short of a complete sea change. For those with Right-leaning political views or who ardently support the Republican Party, the results are prophetic—their sixty-three seat pick up in the House (and now fifty seat...
