| | | Class Struggles at a Bronx Charter School BY STEVEN THRASHER  In New York City's public schools, the most common problem for teachers is that they cannot get their kids to shut up. From kindergarten through high school, it is the bane of almost every teacher's existence. Even experienced teachers talk about the frustration of having a handful of disruptive kids—or even just one—that keeps everyone else from learning. Bronx Success Academy 1 isn't having any of it, and not just because it can fire teachers and students. The newly opened charter school is part of a network run by Eva Moskowitz, a woman who inspires a remarkable loathing from New York's teachers' union and other advocates of traditional public education. Employing non-union i... more >>
| | | | | | Stretch and Bobbito, Back on the Air BY JESSE SERWER  In the annals of college radio, few programs had a more substantial impact than The Stretch Armstrong Show, or, as it's more commonly known, "The Stretch & Bobbito Show." DJ Adrian "Stretch Armstrong" Bartos and Robert "Bobbito" Garcia's hip-hop broadcast, which aired 1 to 5 a.m. Friday mornings ("Thursday nights") on Columbia University's WKCR-FM from 1990 to 1998, gave Nas, the Notorious B.I.G.... more >> | | | | | | Delmonico's: Ye Olde School Restaurant BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Delmonico’s can never live up to its history or its hype. The creation of Swiss brothers John and Peter Delmonico, the restaurant was founded on William Street in 1827 as a pastry shop selling “small cakes” (probably cupcakes). It soon turned into a dining room with six tables, then hopscotched around William Street until the Great Fire of 1835 razed the entire block—and most ... more >> | | | | | | | | Mysteries Abound in the Mumble-Noir Cold Weather BY J. HOBERMAN  Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet uninflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year’s star vehicles Greenberg and Cyrus introduced the concept of mega-mumble. The low-budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench pioneered mumble-chord; Tiny Furniture was part psycho-drumble, part sit-cumble. Premiering with the latter at last spring’s South by Southw... more >> | | | | | | | | Eat the Rich BY TOM ROBBINS  If you want a true picture of New York's current economic plight, take a look at a remarkable graph showing the share of income going to the top 1 percent of earners over the past 100 years. The chart is the product of the Fiscal Policy Institute, the labor-backed group that is one of the lone voices trying to be heard over the ever-growing roar demanding that wages and benefits for workers be k... more >> | | | | | | | | Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist BY R. C. BAKER  As a performance artist who puts her scantily clad body front and center—sometimes precariously so—Laurel Nakadate pokes a sharp stick into the Male Gaze. Since her twenties, she has co-starred in her own photographs and videos, improvising roles with men she has found lurking around truck stops, gas stations, or on Craigslist. Generally middle-aged, in varying combinations of overwei... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared New York City Council has passed a bill that prohibits smoking in public parks, beaches, boardwalks, pools, playgrounds, and pedestrian plazas. Smokers may need a cigarette to calm their nerves a... Fork in the Road After reviewing Mono+Mono, our love of Korean fried chicken was rekindled, and so we made a point today of stopping by Crazy for Chicken (121 Ludlow Street, 212-529-2740), a newish bird joint th... La Daily Musto CLICK HERE for my hilarious interview with the guy who's most out to spray Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark out of its web and into the Broadway trash pail. He explains why this is one project that ... Sound of the City We'd graph it, but sadly, it's too simple for that. Your 2011 Billboard #1s, in chronological order: Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 52K; Cake, Showroom of Compassion, 44K; the Decemberists, The King Is... Corporate After more than a quarter-century in alternative media, Michael Cohen is leaving as publisher of the Village Voice. Taking Cohen's place as publisher will be longtime VVM colleague Josh Fromson, w... | | | | |
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