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A Queens Gun Buyback Program Ends Up With 509 Weapons in Total

Here's more proof that, no matter how much Americans love their guns, our affection for the Benjamin's always trumps all in the end.At the New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Jamaica, Queens yesterday, a gun buyback initiative was held to fight back against the 12% spike in shootings this year ... More >>

Q&A;: King Khan On His Favorite Superhero, Taking A Trip To Bethlehem, And His "Volatile Volcano Of Love"

King Khan—he of the Shrines, the King Khan & BBQ Show, the Black Jaspers, the... oh, you get the idea—is back, but then he never really leaves. This native Canadian, now living in Berlin between endless globe-hopping and side projects, is a busy man. He's in the Big Apple this week with ... More >>

Purslane and Four Other Things to Look for in the Farmers' Markets This Weekend

​1. Squash Blossoms -- Not too much you can do with these babies except stuff 'em with ricotta, dip them in batter, and carefully fry the crap out of them. Vegans will want to use hummus instead.

Tony Nominations! My Final Predictions!

​The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>

Jerusalem Heads Into the Woods

Mark Rylance and Jez Butterworth mess with English folkdom

Jerusalem Brings Blood And Guts To Broadway: My Review

​The new Olivier by way of John Belushi, Mark Rylance is willing to go to even darker places than an electrician in a power blackout. Three years ago, he won a Tony for his Buster Keaton-ish deadpan in Boeing Boeing, and more recently he played a scary vulgarian who spoke in verse in the stim ... More >>

Frankenstein and Keira Knightley—Don’t Confuse the Two

A March march through London theater (sorry, ‘theatre’)

Julian Schnabel's Miral: Muddle-East Politics

Bureacracy Collides With Compassion in The Human Resources Manager

MOMI Reopens After Two-Year Overhaul

A Cooper Union Student Lost an Eye Protesting in Israel—But None of Her Vision

The Wedding Song Probes Bond between Two Women

Van Kills Child, Hurts Others in Chinatown (Updated)

Around noon a van marked "China Chalet" (a local catering firm) apparently hit several children at 38 East Broadway in Chinatown near Market Street. One of the children is reported dead. We're not sure what the kids were doing there but there are a couple of schools nearby including Mesivta Tifereth ... More >>

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

A rare staging of G.E. Lessing's Nathan the Wise

Barenboim gets guards after threats

Al Jazeera's NYC Street Food Special

Advice to Obama: Have Some Hummus, Boychik

Watch Out, Obama!

Does A-Rod Swing "That Way"?

Next year in Orlando! Nailing Florida's born-again theme park. Back here, the usual unholier- than-thou experiences.

Will the Latest Jerusalem Bloodshed Be Followed By Talks or Intifada?

Spinoza debates God in David Ives's The New Jerusalem

Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film

Get to the Greenmarket, Stat!

O Jerusalem

Sick With God

Lear deBessonet dives into religious delirium

'Close to Home'

Exquisite Equinox

Fall back to the hardiest harvest

Horoscope

'Disengagement': Just Another Brick in the Wall

Bringing a Miniature Jerusalem to Palestinians Longing to See It

Holy Crap

The empire strikes back: Uneasy nods to contemporary politics is all this Heaven knows

About a Goy

The passion of the naïf: A Christian Zulu makes a pilgrimage to the broken-promise land

The Searchers

Ethiopian Jews, Holocaust survivors, Lacanian psychobabblers, and a downtown bra shop

Film

In This World

Non-American splendor in a global film series

Conflicts of Interest

Regarding the Pain of Others

Up in Arms

Israelis Flock to Buy Guns, Pack Heat at Services

Attack of the Chickenshits

Steve Earle Practices Rock and Roll Leftism for Its Own Sweet Sake

Palestine 101

A Short Take on a Long History

East Jerusalem Exiles

The Ground Shifts in Sheikh Jarrah

Rite What You Know

Travels With Harry

Coping With Terrorism Is Part of Ordinary Life in Israel

Israeli Films Go Back to the Present

Shoot to Maim

Israel’s Favored Ammo is Crippling a Generation of Young Palestinians

J. Hoberman's Top 10

The Jerusalem Problem

Defending Edward Said

Urban Legends

Mad About It All

Deliverance

Best of the Rest

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