Why did Dwight Gooden have a mural in Manhattan? Because he did things like this.
He was 20 years old at the time.
He was 20 years old at the time.
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So, the NYC Board of Elections was a cesspit of cronyism and corruption back in the day.
It still is.
A week ago, we had Democratic Party primaries for many city wide offices, including the Mayor, Comptroller, Borough Presidents and most City Council seats. Given the city's politics, winning the primary is tantamount to election in most races.
This was the first city wide race to be run under Ranked Choice Voting, and it was only today that the BOE released the first set of ranked choice results.
Then this happened
https://twitter.com/bobhardt/status/1410055272308121603
We weren't expected to have real results for another week or two, due to our weird rules on absentee ballots, but everyone in city politics is losing their shit right now, and the ultimate results will not be believed by many.Comment
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Which borough is Kings? I forget.Comment
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Kings = Brooklyn
Queens = Queens
Bronx = The Bronx
Richmond = Staten Island
New York = Manhattan
The New Kings Democrats are a progressive group that is trying to beat the Machine that has controlled Brooklyn politics for virtually my entire life.Comment
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Is that the same board that might or might not have counted 150k votes that might or might not have been real and might or might not have narrowed the primary to much closer than it previously was?
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Forty years ago today the New York Times printed an article entitled Rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals, the first mention in the mainstream media of what would become known as HIV/AIDS. i think it's impossible for those of us not in NY or San Francisco to appreciate the devastation it would cause, the sense in which it wiped out not just tens of thousands of lives, but with it a part of the urban communal identity that had been tenaciously struggled for, and perhaps even an entire worldview – a lost imagination, as Sarah Schulman put it.
So much of the iconography of the covid crisis feels like a rerun of HIV/AIDS: patients agonising alone in hospitals; masks and coverings, emissions and globules, panic over contaminated surfaces; complacency and portentous warnings from government; rollcalls of dead people; stunning, unprocessable grief. My generation was supposed to have grown up in the shadow of AIDS, shaped and cowed and scarred by it. Instead, we largely looked away and carried on as before, a little more cautiously, a lot less volubly. i wonder if the volumes of pontification about The Covid Kids will bear as little fruit.Comment
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The latest photozine from Cafe Royal Books from Douglas Corrance.
Click the thumbnails to enlarge each image.Comment
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Just posting this here - I saw the David Hare play 'Straight Line Crazy' about Robert Moses, and it was easily the best play I've ever seen. Admittedly, I've only seen 5, but still.
Ralph Fiennes was superb as Moses - he didn't seem to try and get his nasal whine, but the dialogue was superb and brought out the great contradictions of Moses, as well as those of his critics too. It was on NT Live, so we saw it at our local cinema, and they're doing it again in a couple of weeks. Recommended!Comment
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Ah, cheers for the heads up on that, that sounds extremely my shit, and I'd probably have missed it altogetherComment
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Word of mouth, there.Comment
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EEG's wife also saw it (as discussed on the "Things you learned from OTF" thread.
Am I right in thinking that it has not been put on here in New York?Comment
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So, a thing I learned from OTF, but not from the Things you learned from OTF threadComment
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UA - not yet; it only premiered over here a few weeks' back. Do Hare's plays have a habit of being staged in NY more generally?Comment
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I was going to say yes, but then I checked his full oeuvre and probably a bit less than half of those listed had a NYC run.
But he does have three Tony nominations and has had several produced here, so I think the chances are quite high, especially given the subject.Comment
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A Virtual Walking Tour of Downtown music venues and spaces of the early 1980s
https://mappingnyc.mcny.org/stories/...eid=3410cb2280Comment
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This is amazing resource for the period that will now be preserved "forever"
https://twitter.com/nypl/status/1622993254596714496?s=61&t=9ZdeEFvz2B8fMbi2Xos5gg
Valuable context on this podcast
https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1624063498782121984?s=61&t=9ZdeEFvz2B8fMbi2Xos5gg
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Well if you go missing for about 2 weeks at some point in the near future, at least we will all know where you will be.Comment
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Perhaps of particular interest to Snake
[https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1663880221378871296?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow
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That is a gift with some quality Brocolli history debunking.Comment
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