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Ken Kurson

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Bernie Kerik. (Photo: Spencer Platt)

Welcome Home, Bernie

The first time I met Bernie Kerik was in his giant office at 1 Police Plaza. Bernie is a showy guy who makes an instant impression with his barrel chest and massive arms. But the thing he most wanted to show me was the Koran he had been given on a visit he’d made to a Read More

The Eight-Day Week

David J. Lee of The Thermals

To Do Wednesday: See The Thermals

The Thermals are touring behind their excellent new record Desperate Ground and bring their too-much-sound-for-a-trio to the Bowery Ballroom. Billed by their new label as “post-pop-punk trio from pre-Portlandia-Portland, Oregon,” the Thermals are manically enjoyable and the new LP features the distorto-voiced energizer single “Born to Kill” as the intro to a kind of upbeat Read More

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A Pretty Decent Proposal

You know how you’re supposed to be suicidal when someone refers to Robert De Niro as “Bobby” because you know you’ll never be that intimate with someone so vitally important to the cultural life of the city? Well, the same is true of Robert Redford, who was called to the stage by Sony Pictures honcho Tom Read More

The Eight-Day Week

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To Do Wednesday: Click. Print. Gun.

VICE debuts a new documentary produced by Erin Carr about the way 3D printing—and specifically its potential to create firearms and other weapons—is changing the nature of the debate about gun control and even about intellectual property and creativity. With a great title—Click. Print. Gun.—and a red-hot subject matter, the film is certain to be a Read More

25th Anniversary

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Looking Back, Moving Forward

I’ve been a fan of this newspaper for more than 20 years and its editor for less than three months. One of the things that people keep asking from me—demanding, actually—is that most noxious of modern conventions, “the elevator pitch.” Any idea that requires more than 30 seconds to explain is anathema in our 140-character Read More