Francesca Haley Howard

Oct. 21, 2006

11:03 p.m.

6 pounds, 8 ounces

Lenox Hill Hospital

Erica Lumière knew she’d be pushing it (no pun intended) by attending a centennial weekend gala at her alma mater, Kent, the Connecticut boarding school, three weeks before a scheduled C-section. Sure enough, her water broke at the start of a football game. Read More

Petlin’s Ambiguous Agitprop Pushes Dialogue, Not Dogma

The centerpiece of Irving Petlin’s exhibition of paintings and drawings at Kent Gallery is The Entry of Christ into Washington (2005), a tripartite canvas of about five by 12 feet. It’s an homage, of sorts, to Belgian painter James Ensor’s Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889, one of the more quizzical masterpieces of early modernist Read More

Williamsburg: Never Been In a Riot (Updated)


The new 184 Kent. Now, with richer hipsters inside.

As the city rather melodramatically girds for riot over the Teitelbaum succession in the Satmar section of Williamsburg, police found themselves having a job of work handling the neighborhood’s hipster population Saturday Friday night*.

Onlookers at a bar across the street from 184 Kent Read More