David Nadel: Burns II Most of Nadel’s images have been gathered in the northern Rocky Mountains. More specifically, his photographs capture a landscape altered by massive forest fires. The latter have traveled over mountainsides, blackened thousands of acres of woodland and left nothing but giant “burns.” As these fires travel quickly, they mostly consume the lighter [...]

BIG ROAD IN CHELSEA’S MULTICULTUREAL MINI-FESTIVAL Building on the success of its opening night in January, Big Road in Chelsea — an affordable music performance space/coffeehouse devoted to celebrating diverse cultures and musical styles — hosts a Multicultural Mini-Festival featuring the blues, boogie-woogie, stride and New Orleans piano-style stylings of David Bennett Cohen (a name [...]

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | On St. Patrick’s Day, climb the deep and very narrow stairway of the Merchant’s House Museum — to find a faithfully restored fourth floor servant’ quarters and hear how its Irish inhabitants lived and worked. As it turns out, domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865 as lived by the [...]

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Like a stout ship that was buffeted by a severe ocean storm, the South Street Seaport Museum came through Superstorm Sandy battered but fundamentally intact. The museum’s elevator and escalator no longer work. To see the exhibits, it’s necessary to climb the stairs of the early 19th-century buildings on Schermerhorn [...]

FILM: “SUMMERTIME” AT THE FIRST TIME FEST Before heading to Los Angeles to attend film school (later honing his craft at Lenfilm Studios in St. Petersburg, Russia), Max Weissberg called the Lower East Side home while working at the L.E.S. Tenement Museum and serving as a tour guide with the East Village History Project. Now, [...]

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In recent years, the LGBT community has adopted the issue of anti-gay bullying as a cause célèbre, leveraging tragic, high-profile cases to shine a light on intolerance and advance gay rights. More often than not, the issue is reduced to black and white — bullies are evil, victims are saints. For [...]

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN  |  On January 12th, more than ten weeks after the devastating storm surge of Hurricane Sandy hit the Chelsea gallery district with unexpected and unprecedented force, things finally seemed to be getting back to normal. That day, the last group of galleries located on the block of 27th Street, between 11th Avenue [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER | For Teresa Deevy, playwright, born 1894, the sounds of silence were everywhere. For Katie Roche, house worker, not yet twenty years old — lovely, impatient, illegitimate Katie of little Lower Ballygar, Ireland — the temptations to greatness, particularly the call of the convent, were everywhere. But none of it went anywhere. [...]

BOOK RELEASE: REVEREND BILLY’S “THE END OF THE WORLD” No definitive word from the mountain as to whether the world will end with a bang or a whimper — but when it does, you can tell the desperate citizens fighting over the last Twinkie that Reverend Billy tried to warn us all. The righteous trickster [...]