How Trump's Vicious Budget Would Hurt Science, Poor People, and the ArtsBY HARRY CHEADLE The president's first budget proposal eliminates programs aimed at fighting climate change, lifting people out of poverty, and supporting diplomacy. Read More. Here Is The South Bronx's 1,300-Unit Gentrification Death Star
BY MAX RIVLIN-NADLER Now, from the developers who brought you the "Bronx is Burning" party in 2015 comes two towers totaling 1,300 units, where market-rate renters will be able to look out upon Manhattan and literally turn their backs on the Bronx. Read More.
Nike Pro Hijab gives important validation to Muslim women athletesBY KAVITHA A. DAVIDSON This week, Nike announced the release of the Nike Pro Hijab, a lightweight, breathable head covering for Muslim athletes. The gear could be a game-changer for those female athletes who have long fought resistance to their participation, both from within and outside their faith. Read More.
What Trump Could Learn from CarnivalBYJOSIAH HESSE Maybe the Carnival tradition of role reversal could positively impact Trump's worldview? At the very least, seeing him off his high horse for once would make us all feel a little better. Read More.
The Feds Are Reportedly Trying to Shut Down Las Vegas's Cannabis CupBY BRIAN MOYLAN If agents were to show up and shut down the event, it would certainly indicate how the new White House sees local marijuana laws. Read More.
FASHION WEEK’S ANTI-TRUMP RUNWAY POLITICSBY CHRISTINA BINKLEY Something changed after Donald Trump’s Inauguration: during this year’s Fashion Week, politics spilled onto the runways. Read More.
Artist’s Unapologetic Vagina Paintings Are A Force Of Body PositivityBY PRISCILLA FRANK Jacqueline Secor painted her way to self-love, one vulva at a time. Warning: This article contains paintings of vulvae. Beautiful paintings of vulvae. Read More.
Fourth-Generation Harlem Artist Challenges What It Means To Be An AmericanBY PRISCILLA FRANK In his exhibition “Homegrown,” which recently closed at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Shrobe fuses his found materials into portraits that feel over-crowded and otherworldly. Read More.
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The DOE Called This Queens School Newspaper "Fake News." The Students Responded With JournalismBY MAX RIVLIN-NADLER Last week, the staff of the Classic, the student newspaper at Flushing's Townsend Harris High School, gathered in a third-floor hallway to discuss a plan of attack for reporting on a decision that could change their school forever. Read More.
In Netflix Specials, Dave Chappelle Challenges His AudienceBY JASON ZINOMAN It was probably inevitable that Dave Chappelle would do the most provocative comedy on Bill Cosby. Read More.
How the World's First LGBTQ Art Museum Built a Collection That Spans CenturiesBY EMILY COLUCCI With the reopening of an expanded Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art today, the museum's director discusses what it means to bring one of the world's most significant queer art collections together under one roof. Read More.
Trailblazers in New York City
VICE - THE CREATORS PROJECT Model/stylist Luka Sabbat meets technologist Madison Maxey in New York and compare their "you-do-you" policies: How, in different ways, they've driven their careers by following their instincts. We'll also see how they come to connect their own seemingly disparate careers together in the world of fashion and technology. See More.
Gay Bars and Broadway: They Go TogetherBY MICHAEL MUSTO Amid a theater boom, bars in Hell’s Kitchen and elsewhere are hosting colorful events with singalongs, drop-ins and drag queens doing musical numbers. Read More.
BACKSTAGE AT THE RINGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS, 1977BY ANDREA DENHOED In 1977, Meryl Meisler, a photographer with an eye for the zany and the performative, went backstage at Ringling’s annual run at Madison Square Garden. Read More.
The Other Side: ARTIn this episode of The Other Side of Art, Auckland based illustrator and comic artist Toby Morris travels to Japan—the place where more people read comics than newspapers. Read More.
Supreme-Branded Metro Cards Have NYC ShookBY JENNA AMATULLI No one in New York has ever been as excited to buy a MetroCard as the individuals who have been lining up to buy the Supreme-branded MetroCards. Read More.
Exhilarating Bronx Show Looks Back at Two Decades of New York ProtestsBY SIDDHARTHA MITTER It appears today in "Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City, 1980–2000," an exhilarating show that gathers work from 38 documentary photographers who straddled the line between journalism and activism, heading out to shoot the latest incident, selling what they could (often to the Voice), and consigning the rest to their archives. Read More.
This Wondrous New Workout Class Lets You Run Through the Halls of the MetBY MOLLY FITZPATRICK .Workout is a collaboration between the contemporary dance company Monica Bill Barnes & Company and artist and author Maira Kalman, who narrates the choreographed series of exercises and curated the artwork highlighted within. Read More.
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