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September 21, 2009

“Finger Painting: New Day,” by Jorge Colombo.

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Goings On

Tables for Two

Gus And Gabriel

Critic’s Notebook

Rescue Team

Critic’s Notebook

Sunn, Here It Comes

Critic’s Notebook

Family of Mann

The Talk of the Town

Tug of War

Who Knows Brooklyn?

Not Tonight Dept.

Head First

Comment

Lies

Dept. Of Regeneration

You Say Oyster

The Musical Life

Patriarch

Reporting & Essays

Annals of Law

Bench Press

Onward and Upward with the Arts

The Mask of Doom

A Reporter at Large

Eight Days

Shouts & Murmurs

Shouts & Murmurs

Attention, People of Earth

Fiction

Fiction

Land of the Living

The Critics

The Art World

Dutch Touch

The Current Cinema

Young Romantics

Briefly Noted

No Quarter

Briefly Noted

The Anthologist

Books

It Happened One Decade

Briefly Noted

The Music Room

Poems

Poems

Alternate Take: Levon Helm

Poems

Mother’s Quail

Cartoons

1/13

“I wanted to be a hunter and gatherer, but I couldn’t handle the course load.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

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