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Downtown Aesthetics on Broadway 16 Jul 2012 | 03:16 am
Peter and the Starcatcher. Written by Rick Elice. Directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. Peter and the Starcatcher, which opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 15, would be an ...
Bolaño Posthumous 16 Jul 2012 | 03:07 am
Books Under Review: The Skating Rink, by Roberto Bolaño, Tres by Roberto Bolaño, & The Third Reich Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998–2003 by Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolano Sin...
Hannibal Lecture: Finding Relevance in Rome’s Nemesis 16 Jul 2012 | 02:54 am
Books under review: Barry Strauss, Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership. Simon & Schuster, 2012; Andreas Kluth, Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Milita...
Anarchism for Idiots 1 Jul 2012 | 05:32 am
Books Reviewed: Vivian Gornick. Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. Yale University Press, 2011 Emma Goldman Imagine Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris set in the Lower East side of New York Cit...
GC Advocate Poetry Competition 30 Jun 2012 | 04:19 am
This year's judge Wayne Koestenbaum The GC Advocate is pleased to announce the winners of the Second Annual GC Advocate Poetry Competition. Out of the many dozen excellent entries received, our J...
CUNY News in Brief (May, 2012) 30 Jun 2012 | 04:06 am
Tensions over Fees Grow in Brooklyn On May 16, hundreds of faculty, students, and staff gathered at Brooklyn College for a silent vigil protesting the arrests of two students made by the New York Cit...
Pathways to Debt? 30 Jun 2012 | 04:02 am
As many readers by now have heard, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and the Board of Trustees initiated the “Pathways to Degree Completion” last June. The program is a massive new general education cur...
The Ongoing Challenge 30 Jun 2012 | 03:59 am
It’s been almost six years now since I took over as head of the GC Advocate, and—having finally defended my dissertation and landed a job (sorry to brag)—I am moving on to make room for a younger, ...
On the City as University: Occupy and the Future of Public Education 24 May 2012 | 06:47 am
For quite a long time now, we precariously situated students and faculty in CUNY have been practicing the art of what Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o calls “poor theory”— “maximizing the possibilities...
On Malcolm X and Mexico 23 May 2012 | 08:51 am
Cross-posted at Michael K. Busch. The anniversary of Malcolm X’s birthday this past weekend found me revisiting some of his speeches and shorter works, and remembering the more noteworthy quotes take...
