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75-Year-Old Nonna Osipova Takes on the NYPD

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 2, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

But it doesn’t seem that way to 75-year-old Nonna Osipova. She’s been struggling to bring lawsuits against various police officers for nearly 20 years now, charging them with various crimes–but not a single case has made it to a courtroom. Ms. Osipova grew up in Russia with dreams of being a writer and a filmmaker.
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Slaughterhouse Serenade: A Doo-Wop Quartet Doesn’t Help a Crappy Day

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 25, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

On the train ride back into Brooklyn, I knew they would make an appearance. They always did. They only appeared on the worst of days, on days when I had reached some kind of nadir, but on those days, they appeared like clockwork–a three-piece mariachi band, who would stroll through the train car, playing guitars
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Learning from Monsters: Some Teachers Are the Scum of the Earth

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 25, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Maybe it’s just me. But looking back over all those godforsaken years of public education I went through–almost two decades’ worth–shuffling through all the faces of all the teachers I’ve had, the ones who leap to mind first aren’t the inspirations, the kindhearted, the ones who went above and beyond to give me a fighting
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Howard Zinn Stages Karl Marx

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 11, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Depending on your politics, Zinn is either one of the best historians of our time or a man who plays fast and loose with the facts in his drive to trash America. Zinn, now a very active 77, has published hundreds of articles and authored or edited close to 20 books on radical American history
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Certified Mob Restaurants

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 4, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Little Italy in New York City is the mob joint capital of America, if not the world. At least it was at one time. Honest-to-goodness non-social club joints have been harder to find in recent years, what with the various blows dealt to local crime families, but there are still a few around, even as
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Based on a True Story

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 28, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I headed down the sidewalk, lighting a smoke, careful not to set fire to the envelopes in the process. Everything was fine. Suddenly, however, as I was crossing the street, everything wasn’t fine. It was one of those weird psychological states where it takes you a second to realize why and how things weren’t fine
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NYC Booksellers Up In Arms

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 28, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Now, though, some booksellers who appear in the film are annoyed at Rosette. Alan Eisenberg was a W. 4th fixture for nearly a decade. Today he runs Last Exit Books, in Park Slope. "I’ve never gotten to see the film," he admits. "Still, I’m not particularly pleased… ’Cause unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge,
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Back to the Wonderful World of Shoplifting

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 14, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Petty thievery was a given way of life for many years. I stole books and food and wine and smokes–whatever I was in the mood for. Only got stopped once, and the store owner in that instance let me go–he obviously didn’t want to deal with the cops any more than I did. Before moving
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Jizzyland: Accessing the Nasty Old Times Square

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 14, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

There are a few people who are doing what they can to at least keep alive the memory of what the Forty Deuce used to be. There’ve been art exhibits and documentaries and books and photo essays and hundreds of magazine rants. Hell, I guess Screw is still around, too. The newest effort to keep
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William S. Burroughs Goes Soft

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 7, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Edited by James Grauerholz (Grove Press, 273 pages, $25) I always liked the idea of William Burroughs much more than I liked actually reading him. Nevertheless, I have a reasonably complete library of his books, and most all the John Giorno recordings he made. I still
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