Of Course It’s Art

from AP NY COURT WEIGHS IF LAP DANCE IS TAX-EXEMPT ART BY MICHAEL VIRTANEN / ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the same tax...

50 Objects of New York

from The New York Times A History of New York in 50 Objects By SAM ROBERTS An artichoke and an elevator. A Checker taxicab and a conductor’s baton. A MetroCard and a mastodon tusk. Inspired by “A History of the World in 100 Objects,” the British Museum’s BBC radio...

Campbell’s Targets Andy On Tomato

from The LA Weekly Campbell’s to Pay Homage to Warhol’s Soup Can Art at Target in September By Andrew Simmons In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can paintings were a spectacularly ordinary counterpoint to any number of lush,...

World’s Greatest Lyricist Gone

from The LA Times Celebrating iconic songwriter Hal David Hal David, who helped pen iconic tunes like “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “(They Long to Be) Close to You” has died. He was 91. By Gerrick D. Kennedy Lyricist Hal David...

Ask Howard

from Dallas Voice Ask Howard How to do what’s wrong right HOWARD LEWIS RUSSELL  | Special Contributor Dear Howard,I am not a sex addict. At 43, however, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m one of those rare men whose libido increases rather than diminishes with...