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Arne Svenson, Peeping At the Neighbors

Photographer Arne Svenson opened a gorgeous show of photographs at the Julie Saul Gallery this week to much controversy. ...

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Today is the official International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia otherwise known as IDAHO. ...

Diddy Goes Downtown on Downton

Sean Combs gays it up on Downtown Abbey... with the real cast of Downton.     ...

Vemeer's Daughter, The One with The Pearl Earring

If you think breaking into the art world is hard now, imagine if you were a girl in pre-modern Europe the only hope that you could persue a career as an artist would be if your father was an artist ...

The Person is the Transit, Relationships Part 1 of 3

Resident astrologer Patrice Kamins begins her three part video series on how planetary transits affect the kinds of relationships we encounter. ...

Eat, Pray, Epiphany with Victoria Libertore

Sometimes traveling half way round the world is the only way to find yourself. ...

FEMA Denies Aid To Housing Co-Ops after Sandy

According to New York's Office of Housing Recovery Operations, some 120 co-op buildings, with 13,000 apartments, and 368 condominiums, with 7,000 units, sustained flooding and damage after Hurrican ...

"The Limits of Communication", Velvetpark's Reading Series *Update*

Coming up this Wensday is Velvetpark's latest installment of our new reading series. ...

Taylor Mead 1923 – 2013

Possibly the last true bohemian of New York passed away this Wednesday. Taylor Mead was a poet, artist, filmmaker and downtown icon. ...

The Good Lord Has Come and It is Called the Cronut

A lovely morning in NYC with a cup of home-made pour over coffee in my right hand. But, alas, my left hand feels empty. It too wants to hold something—don't we all. ...

When Did You Choose to Be Straight?

Uh Oh, might this be the answer to "is it a choice?" Never seen so many flummoxed straight people.   ...

Elizabeth Warren, The People's Hero

Elizabeth Warren deserves her own testament ...in the Book of AWESOME. ...

Anti-Keynesian economics' homophobe Niall Ferguson

There are a lot of sound reasons to critique Keynesian economics, but a reason that its creator was gay shouldn't be one of them. ...

Walk in the Park

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End of the Village Voice, Musto Out!
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

Last week, top editors at the Village Voice resigned in protest when they learned that management wanted them to lay off several members of their already-decimated staff. This morning, those layoffs came down. They're not pretty.

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Photographer Takes Secret Photos of Neighbors for Public Art Project
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

A Tribeca photographer has come under fire for taking clandestine photos of his neighbors and making them available for public consumption through a Chelsea art gallery without the consent of his subjects.

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Most Gay Friendly Sprot? Roller Derby, Duh
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

"Most people look at the women's side of it and think that it's all of these butch girls playing roller derby. So it just tends to go very easily with lesbians and roller derby,"

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Mark And Pam Crawford, Parents Of Intersex Child, Sue South Carolina For Sex Assignment Surgery (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

M.C. feels like a boy. The 8-year-old adopted child of Mark and Pam Crawford identifies as a boy, acts like a boy and is accepted as a boy by his family, school and pediatrician...

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The Scientific Backlash Against the D.S.M.
The New Yorker
May 17, 2013

Insel announced that that the D.S.M.’s diagnostic categories lacked validity, that they were not “based on any objective measures,” ... they were nothing more than constructs put together by committees of experts.

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Obama vs. the Press: Will the A.P. Scandal Yield Reforms? : The New Yorker
New Yorker
May 17, 2013

On Thursday, President Obama called on Congress to revive a federal shield law that would protect reporters from the sort of thing the Justice Department has done to the A.P. This was ironic on two counts.

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The Non-Actor Models in Karl Lagerfeld's Latest Chanel Film Needn't Quit Their Day Jobs
Blouin Artinfo
May 16, 2013

The art of the advertorial fashion featurette has reached pretentious new highs with “Once Upon A Time.” Directed by Karl Largerfeld and starring Keira Knightley’s chin, alongside a bevy of non-actor models, the film is set around the opening of Coco Chanel's hat shop

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