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HIV Record-Keeping and the Specter of the “Medical Police State”

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 27, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

This is roughly how it works: Beginning just a few weeks ago, on June 1, the New York state Dept. of Health began gathering the names of everyone they knew who was infected with the HIV virus. Those people will be asked to divulge the names of all of their sex and needle partners. The
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A Weird, Futile Trip to the Races

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 20, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

(Some of you may think you know where this is going already, but you’re only half right.) I’d never been to Aqueduct before, so I wasn’t exactly sure how to get to the track myself once we got off the train. That’s always the tricky part for me. Figuring, though, that the stop was called
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Dicks Aplenty

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 13, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"I ask them, ‘How do you feel now?’ ‘How does your dick feel?’ ‘What are you thinking about?’ Some questions are silly, some aren’t–‘Who are you thinking about fucking right now?’ Sometimes I say, ‘Show me how big your dick will become when it gets hard,’ or ‘I really want to see a nice, hard
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Catching Up with the Ukulele Lady

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 13, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

There are currently hundreds, if not thousands, of uke players sneaking around the streets of New York. Probably one of the best known among them is Phyllis Capello, aka "Brooklyn’s Own Ukulele Lady." Thing about Ms. Capello, though, is that she’s more than just an extraordinarily talented uke player. She’s also an award-winning poet and
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Blind Luck in Atlantic City

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 6, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"Jesus Christ," I muttered. "I guess they don’t want you to know what time it is," Morgan said, as I pulled the curtains closed again. "Or if it’s a nice, sunny day outside." That’s the thing–a few years ago, as part of a massive, multimillion-dollar renovation plan, Caesar’s ripped out the ceiling of the lobby
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The Celebrity Cavalcade Continues!

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 30, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

As his legend grew throughout the 80s, Allin, like so many rock ’n’ roll greats before him, would tour the country solo, almost continuously, riding Greyhounds from town to town. At each stop, it was up to the club owner to pull together a backup band for him. The band would practice a few times,
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Slackjaw’s Celebrity Cavalcade!

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 23, 2000. Posted in Opinion and Column, Posts

I’ve told a few of the stories already–harassing Jamie Lee Curtis at the Guggenheim; perplexing Gene Hackman on 3rd Ave. by whispering the magical word “tri-zeta” at him; pretending to be a potential Michael Dukakis assassin (and paying the price for my tomfoolery). Here are a few stories that haven’t found their way into print
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Get Off Heroin, Pain-Free

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 16, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

In 1989, he opened Jerusalem House, a 15-bed treatment center for addicts, where he began to develop "The Scher Method" of painless drug detoxification. Jerusalem House received a great deal of press in Israel at the time, most of it overwhelmingly positive. In December of 1989, however, a journalist working undercover for the local weekly
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75-Year-Old Nonna Osipova Battles the FBI

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 9, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

From the story she told me originally, suing (or trying to sue) the NYPD and her landlord made sense. She’s been beaten, arrested unjustly, abused, threatened, raped and had her door kicked in. But beyond those things, I still wasn’t sure why she had a beef with the Mayor or the FBI. So I asked.
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Being Strange in a Stranger Land: A Vision of Wisconsin

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 9, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"Well, let me introduce you to our captain, Mike" she said, "And this is our copilot for today, John." "Mike," I said, shaking his hand, before turning to the copilot. "John," I shook his hand as well. "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you, too, err–" They smiled, but their smiles were a little
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