Arts 
No city for country fans
Country music aficionados bond in a city that ain’t no Nashville(1)
By Edmund DeMarche
Cooper Boone thinks you need to come out of the closet.
Yeah, you.
You, the 30-year-old city slicker who traipses into Lincoln Center and says things like, “Isn’t the new Alice Tully Hall just marvelous?” then watches a performance of Symphony No. Whatever in B-minor until you and your little lady waltz across the street [...]
Home is where the art is
Faced with a space crunch, New York artists expand the definition of galleries
By Laura Cameron
Blanka Amezkua didn’t change anything about her home when she began displaying artwork in her bedroom. The shabby linoleum, the bare light fixtures and the robin’s egg blue walls are all still there, but now every month an artist comes into Amezkua’s apartment in Mott Haven neighborhood and installs a work of art.
There’s [...]
Yo! Oy! It’s global hip-hop, Orthodox Jewish style
By Christian Taske
Walking through Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, Yitzchak Jordan immediately stands out. Aside from the traditional beard and long side curls tucked behind his ears, there’s nothing distinctively Jewish or Orthodox about Jordan’s appearance.
Where the Hasidic passersby wear tall hats and long jackets, Jordan, a [...]