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Drug Professor’s $3.5 Million Study: Rich White New Yorkers Use Heroin

Dr. Ansley Hamid, formerly an associate professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was drinking cups upon cups of Chinese green tea on a white futon in his West 49th Street...

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Who’s Normal, Anyway? Baryshnikov’s New Vehicle

I must say that the Lincoln Center Festival got off to a sticky start this summer. Venturing into the bowels of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to find the theater there doesn't help much,...

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‘Howl,’ Ginsberg’s Time Bomb, Still Setting Off New Explosions

Hyperbolic titles invite dissent. So here’s mine: What makes Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” “the poem that changed America,” as the cover of this essay collection proclaims? Ginsberg might’ve responded by...

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Events for June 16, 2006

The Council on Foreign Relations will hold a conversation with Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's minister of foreign affairs. John Jay College holds a forum on felon disenfranchisement. Ted Kennedy, joined by his...

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Notorious Tavern Morphs Into Suds-Slinging Diner

Will the new neon ever attract as many TV crews? The Villager reports this week that Soho's most infamous hangout, The Falls, has been replaced by Midnight Cafe II--a spin-off of a diner located just...

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Events for December 1, 2006

Happy December! The First Lady of Zambia delivers the keynote address and receives the International AIDS Trust and World Vision New York's 2006 award at Tavern on the Green. CUNY hosts a conference on...

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Events for Thursday, December 14, 2006

At 10 a.m. The city's Campaign Finance Board meets on the 6th floor of 40 Rector Street. A panel discussion about trust-building between police and immigrant communities after 9/11 is held at John Jay...

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