- March 30, 2009 | Feature
- Man of Steel
New York City Opera’s charismatic new director has superhuman challenges ahead. To which he says, Bring it!
- March 23, 2009 | The Classical Music Review
- A Modest ‘Honor’
Jessye Norman’s tribute to African-American music.
- March 2, 2009
- Low-Income? You’re Kidding!
Two architects offer far more than lip service to affordable housing.
- February 23, 2009
- Bully for Tully
Lincoln Center’s battered chamber-music hall gets a triumphant rehabilitation.
- February 16, 2009 | The Classical Music Review
- One Marriage, Four Hands
György and Márta Kurtág, joined in life and at Zankel Hall.
- March 23, 2009 | Intelligencer
- St. Anywhere
It’s impossible to legislate weirdness, which is a sad thing for the city’s architectural heritage.
- April 20, 2009 | Intelligencer
- Monumentality
What’s left after a bubble bursts? The greater city that was built by this, and every past, boom.
- April 20, 2009 | Intelligencer
- Power Conservation
When it was completed, in 1904, the IRT powerhouse was a colossus of industrial might.
- June 8, 2009 | Intelligencer
- Delirious Times Square
Without all the cars, carnival.
- August 24, 2009 | Intelligencer
- The Too-Quiet City
People always disappear from New York in August. But this year’s emptiness feels eerie.