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  1. peace in the middle east
    A Gay Community Center’s Middle-East ProblemThe Park Slope Coop isn’t the only local organization dealing with the Israel-Palestine issue. 
  2. occupy wall street
    Surviving Zuccotti Park: How the Protesters Stay Warm, Fed, and CheeryBedbugs are not a problem, but trench foot might be.
  3. rock you like a hurricane
    Dispatch From Fire Island: Evacuate!Our man on the street, Tim Murphy, reports from the boardwalks of Cherry Grove.
  4. encounter
    Cut Copy Cops to the Eighties Sound of Their New Album, ZonoscopeThe single “Take Me Over” certainly sounds like a melding of Men at Work and Fleetwood Mac.
  5. 86 Minutes With Simon Le Bon and Nick RhodesOne half of Duran Duran trolls Bowery to flack the band’s thirteenth album. And, yes, they feel a little vindicated about the eyeliner.
  6. Take the Plunge in ProvincetownSandwiched between Cape Cod Bay and pristine sand dunes, this bohemian town is rife with uncrowded nooks for swimming, drifting, and soaking up sun.
  7. D.J.’s Du JourCalifornia girls Harley and Cassie share a birthday and an ability to get the fashion crowd dancing through hard times.
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    Joel Schumacher on Objectifying Chace Crawford“I do objectify people sexually in my movies. Where’s the harm? They still have to act.”
  9. man on the street
    Man on the Street: Yoga in Central ParkCan 10,000 yogis use their collective spiritual force to stave off the rain? Or stave off Tim Murphy, for that matter?
  10. Sia, the Power Balladist Who Wants to PartySia Furler plops into a booth at the Landmark Coffee Shop & Pancake House. The platinum-bobbed Australian lives a few blocks away, in a Chinatow […]
  11. man on the street
    The Man on the Street Asks If Sex and the City 2 Is ‘2 Much?’We suspect our man on the street himself may think so.
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    Man on the Street: The Night of a Thousand SteviesOur Tim Murphy investigates a twenty-year-old tradition.
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    Man on the Street: Mr. Trans Man 2010We sent our Tim Murphy to a Female-to-Male beauty pageant in Brooklyn.
  14. neighborhood news
    Gay Men’s Health Crisis Eyeing Move Out of Longtime Chelsea HeadquartersWith the closure of St. Vincent’s, this makes two landmarks in the HIV/AIDS fight that are disappearing from their old neighborhoods.
  15. Il DivoEven before Rufus Wainwright wrote an opera, he lived one. And we’re hardly through Act One.
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    Man on the Street: Tim Murphy Boards Le Jeanne d’ArcOur man boards a ship full of young French sailors.
  17. Marc Jacobs’s Brazilian BombshellAt home, work, and play with Lorenzo Martone, the first husband of fashion.
  18. equal rites
    State Senator Diane Savino: Gay-Rights Defender, Karaoke ArtistIn our interview with Diane Savino, one of the impassioned speakers from yesterday’s gay-marriage debate, we learn about a thing called “Legislative Idol.”
  19. 110 Minutes With James RosenquistThe artist painted the town—from Times Square billboards to the Whitney—and painted the town, as a new memoir reveals. But the town he […]
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    House of the Devil’s Mary Woronov on Her Wild Days at Warhol’s Factory and Camp Versus Method“You have to understand how high we were.”
  21. Austerity ProgramPaul Auster likes French girls on bicycles, isn’t afraid to be alone.
  22. Soap StarChuck Palahniuk, dude novelist, gets campy.
  23. Paulina Porizkova, Supermodel Turned Blogger, Doesn’t Want You to Judge HerPaulina Porizkova is sweatin’ to the oldies—“I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” “Sweet Dreams”—in the “Awesome 80’s Dance Class” at Crunch’s Union Sq […]
  24. BlissfulLeelee Sobieski, Tribeca mom, likes to watch.
  25. 60 Minutes With Yoko Ono and Sean LennonAt the kitchen table in the Dakota with the world’s most famous mother-son music collaborators.
  26. How We Got to ‘Sesame Street’The idea for Sesame Street cropped up at a dinner party near Gramercy Park hosted by its future co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney when a guest who’d f […]
  27. 93 Minutes With Lynn RedgraveMonday in the park with the veteran actress, as she prepares for the one-woman show she wrote about her grandmother and fends off reports of her […]
  28. 64 Minutes With Lenny KravitzAt 45, he’s still gonna “Let Love Rule,” with five nights at Irving Plaza. But these days, he has to watch his carbs. By the way, anybody want t […]
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    Rufus on Albert Maysles and His Concert Movie“I always find myself buying porn and checking out the shop boys at American Apparel.”
  30. Living the LifeGabby Sidibe’s astonishing debut in Precious.
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    Tommy Tune Teaches Vulture How to TapThe Broadway legend on his new one-man show, ‘Steps in Time.’
  32. man on the street
    Working Out at David Barton Gym With David BartonWe sent Tim Murphy to sweat with the owner in his house of worship.
  33. Joy Division in the SunAn unlikely surf-mope hybrid fuels the Drums.
  34. intel
    Joan Rivers on the Eve of Her Roast: ‘God Has Given Us This Gift of Humor. Animals Don’t Laugh.’A candid interview with the comedienne.
  35. man on the street
    Casting for Sex and the City, the SequelYesterday there were auditions for nonspeaking roles in the upcoming ‘Sex and the City’ film. Naturally, we sent Tim Murphy along to check it out.
  36. ink-stained gays
    Introducing ‘The Majority,’ Condé Nast’s Secret, Exclusive Club of GaysYes, it’s real. And it’s spectacular.
  37. Paula Froelich Gossips About Leaving Behind the GossipThe “Page Six” veteran starts a new chapter.
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    In the Heights’s Justina Machado on Salsa, Sotomayor, and Her New CBS Show“I saw somebody get kicked in the head the other day on stage!”
  39. man on the street
    Governors Island Day TripWe send Tim Murphy to enjoy the delights of the developing park.
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    Michael Urie on Playing an Activist and Assistant on The Temperamentals and Ugly BettyUrie speaks to us about his character’s future on ‘Betty’ and why he’s so private about certain issues.
  41. Gay Old Times … 2009Forty years after the uprising at the Village’s Stonewall gay bar that sparked the modern gay-rights movement, New York’s LGBT nightlife is fa […]
  42. man on the street
    Backstage Video: Broadway BaresOur Tim Murphy takes on the assignment of his life.
  43. Gay Old Times … 1969Gay New Yorkers may not have been free in the year of the Stonewall riots, but there was still plenty of fun to be had.
  44. our man in the park
    Video: Opening Day at the High LineTim Murphy investigates how people are liking Manhattan’s newest green space.
  45. 154 Minutes With Matthew ModineThe actor and activist wants to make the world a greener place. But why won’t he wear the helmet his wife bought him?
  46. Plagues of New YorkCity health czar Tom Frieden, who’s leaving to run the Centers for Disease Control, expanded the idea of a “public-health emergency”—once the do […]
  47. man on the street
    Man on the Street: Lounging in the New Times SquareWe sent our Tim Murphy with a video camera to check out exactly how fully pedestrians were enjoying their new territory at the crossroads of the world.
  48. chat room
    West Side Story’s Karen Olivo on Her Tony Nomination and Surviving Her Choreography“I can only assume I’m wearing away the cartilage in my knees, being in heels and doing this really strenuous dancing. I don’t just pop out of bed anymore.”
  49. seeking help
    The Crippling Guilt of Not Caring About the EconomyAs a journalist, what do you do when you can’t feign interest?
  50. man on the street
    Bears Spotted in Central ParkThe big, burly kind that like to hug each other in a special way.
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