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Pow! The Red Hook Takes New Brooklyn
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an allegory of gentrification! It’s the Red Hook! Comics creator Dean Haspiel — known for his collaborations with Jonathan Ames on the graphic novel The Alcoholic and on Ames’s HBO series Bored to Death, among myriad graphic endeavors with Marvel, Harvey Pekar, and […]
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Fighting for Plan B
On January 7, 2005, nine women were arrested for blocking access to FDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. The FDA, the women charge, has been blocking access to the morning-after pill (Plan B) for far too long, by refusing to make emergency contraception an over-the-counter drug. A year and a half later, Plan B is still […]
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Drawing Blood Over CHARAS
Fans of preserving the former CHARAS building, on East 9th Street, won a round last week. Preservationists have been pushing the city’s Landmarks commission to protect the 102-year-old former public school. The owner, Gregg Singer, has been pushing a plan to tear part of it down so he develop a 19-story dormitory “for everybody,” he […]
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Living Through Horrors no Adult Could Comprehend
Never again!” was the promise and prayer of an international community shocked by the Holocaust. But for people like NYU student Jacqueline Murekatete, who was nine years old in 1994, when Hutu tribesmen massacred her Tutsi family in Rwanda, words cannot express how empty a pledge that has been. Human Rights Watch calls children like […]