NSA to NSO: NY Filmmakers Explore Circles of Surveillance

Together with artist Sean Vegezzi, Poitras puts viewers outside an NYPD outpost in Queens used by the Technical Assistance Response Unit, whose role is to monitor political protests. Vegezzi, whose brother was among a prison detail from Rikers Island tasked with burying the dead, used a drone to show how detainees with little social distancing […]

New York Philharmonic to Resume Performances Sept. 17

17 with music director Jaap van Zweden conducting the orchestra and pianist Daniil Trifonov in Anna Clyne’s “Within Her Arms,” Copland’s “Quiet City,” George Walker’s “Antifonys for Chamber Orchestra” and Beethoven’s piano concerto No. That concert, the orchestra’s first regular event since March 10, 2020, will be the first of 50 at Lincoln Center’s 1,086-seat […]

I-Team: Secret Cannabis Parties Hoping to Come out of the NY Shadows

As co-founders of a cannabis speakeasy called Happy Munkey, they say they dodged law enforcement, throwing indoor cannabis parties several times a week in Times Square. New York’s legalization bill allows for indoor pot consumption lounges – but it is entirely unclear how many there could be or where they will be allowed to operate. […]