City Week: June 18-24

Written by admin on June 16, 2010. Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Events

A Selective Listing of Recommended Cultural & Community Events Compiled by Alexandra Waldhorn Friday, June 18  Motion Art—Susan Mastrangelo’s show, Slice of Life, presented by the Midtown Arts Common, captures the figural gestures of humans experiencing both the banality and the excitement of daily life. Exhibitors call it a “proscenium of the street, arrested in
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Not-So-Fun City

Written by admin on June 16, 2010. Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Events

By Dan Rivoli The most striking image of the John Lindsay exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York is a blown-up New York Times Magazine cover from 1973. The cover is a photo of Lindsay’s face that shows how events during his seven years as mayor of New York City ravaged his
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Lofts Ain’t What They Used to Be

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Events, Music

Time was a Manhattan jazz loft, a downbeat, drafty, dingy, semi-dangerous place, was where you might hear anything, meet anyone and afterward end up anywhere. That’s why you dropped by. Today the Manhattan jazz loft is different: renovated, formalized, upscale. But drift back to the Jazz Loft, a bohemian hangout in the flower district from
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Building Workers Nominations

Written by admin on August 31, 2009. Posted in Events, News & Features West Side Spirit

Do you know a fabulous doorman, porter or “handy-man” where you live? Is there an office cleaner, security officer or maintenance worker who helps make life a little easier at work? Manhattan Media and 32BJ SEIU, the property service workers union, are pleased to present the third annual Building Service Workers of the Year Awards,
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