Texas May Rename the New York Strip

Nobody knows how exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip. … Read more

Hal Hirshorn, Artist of Otherworldly Photos and Paintings, Dies at 60

Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, who nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique cameras and homemade paints to produce haunting photographs and landscape paintings, died on Feb. 4. He was 60. His sister, Harriet Hirshorn, said the cause was coronary artery disease. … Read more

In N.Y.C.’s Ukrainian Enclaves, Trump’s Rebuke Stirs Complex Feelings

Brighton Beach, a Slavic enclave in Brooklyn where Ukrainians outnumber Russians two to one, voted overwhelmingly for President Trump. But the day after Mr. Trump dressed down President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an explosive meeting at the White House — the latest show of Mr. Trump’s declining support for Ukraine — some Ukrainian New … Read more

A Black Studies Curriculum Is (Defiantly) Rolling Out in New York City

Late last fall at the Hugo Newman School in Harlem, two social studies teachers handed out pages of hip-hop lyrics to their seventh graders, and then flicked off the lights. The students appeared surprised. They had been studying ancient matriarchal societies, including Iroquois communities that had women leaders. Now, their teachers were about to play … Read more