On a recent Friday night at Paragon, a two-level dance club that sits under train tracks in Bushwick, Brooklyn, partygoers jerked their bodies to the thump of rave music. In the less roomy basement, silhouettes swayed as the flashes of blue from the ceiling’s grid of LED lights revealed young faces. It was “def a…
Jerome Dewald sat with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap in front of an appellate panel of New York State judges, ready to argue for a reversal of a lower court’s decision in his dispute with a former employer. The court had allowed Mr. Dewald, who is not a lawyer and…
Finish line in sight, I flipped on the Mavericks and Bulls the other night, both teams battling for play-in positions. Wow. Great game. Two nights later, I tried the Kings and Pacers. Same stakes. Again, wonderful theater. So now I am ready to make a profound statement: Why is tanking such a bad thing? Watching…
Being entertained while eating something exciting is almost an embarrassment of riches, almost too much. Almost. Like anyone with two ears and a heart, I appreciate live music soundtracking an otherwise standard meal on the town. But these three dinner-and-a-show combos aim to offer something a step or two beyond. Comedy should always include karaage…
Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat be compared with? Is Covid like the 1918 flu, terrifying when it was raging but soon relegated to the status of a long-ago nightmare? Is…