By NYO Staff 4/08/02 12:00am

Seeing the Homeless

It’s hard to believe, but there are more homeless people in New York today than there were in the 1980′s-a time that many New Yorkers associate with armies of poor people living in cardboard boxes or sprawled on the sidewalk. In the 1990′s, the city was as prosperous as it has ever been, and Mayor Read More

By Lori Leibovich 9/18/00 12:00am

Rhoda Berenson’s Plan to Save Lori

LIMA, PERU-Rhoda Berenson’s life is a mockery of what it once was. “Life before,” she said, “is like history.”

Before, Rhoda Berenson was a real New York classic: a physics teacher who took dance lessons at Martha Graham, who had a subscription to the Joyce Theater, who cooked, graded papers and danced under the Read More

By Joseph Hooper 3/20/00 12:00am

Peruvian Singer Dances in Shadows

The title of Peruvian singer Susana Baca’s excellent new album, Eco de Sombras ( Echo of Shadows ), suggests that she’s singing about something that somehow doesn’t really exist. That would be the music and culture of black Peru. African slaves followed hard upon the heels of Peru’s Spanish conquerors in the 1500′s, but, contrary Read More