Eight Day Week

Wednesday 19th

Poets and politics: With our elected leaders on both sides of the war distressingly tongue-tied -whoever dreamed George W. Bush would get the rhetorical upper hand on the Democrats?-the country’s poets are getting into the art of punditry. Tonight, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker ( The Color Purple ) reads from Absolute Read More

Manhattan Community Board

Liberty Plaza High-Rise Plan Sails Through Grateful Board 1

Even as more Manhattan families are spending weekends in the suburbs, touring sleepy villages and sprawling towns with real-estate brokers, developers are planning to raise a new luxury residence just blocks from the remains of the World Trade Center.

This bold plan-or foolish, depending on Read More