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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Timothy Ledwith

Timothy Ledwith reads, writes, and occasionally looks out the window on the Staten Island Ferry.

Superpowers, Revealed

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…someone who can divide a dinner bill five ways! Sometimes the best abilities are the ones the world can’t see. Our STAFF AND READERS share their talents. (Of Recent Note | September 2, 2009)

Stereoblind

After a lifetime of visual miscues, TIMOTHY LEDWITH finally decided to do something about his optical condition. Now comes the hard part: seeing the world through both eyes. (Personal Essays | March 17, 2009)

A View Across the Bay

The Sept. 11 attacks bonded Staten Island, the city’s most ambivalent borough, more closely than ever before to the rest of New York. TIMOTHY LEDWITH looks at the ripple effects of 9/11. (Personal Essays | September 11, 2008)

Memorare

While AIDS is still a major killer around the world, it has become a manageable condition for most HIV-positive Americans. TIMOTHY LEDWITH bears witness to a time when the mortal threat was closer to home. (Personal Essays | June 10, 2008)

The Year of the Grey Rabbit

In 1979, as the U.S. became embroiled in the events that would develop into the current political climate, TIMOTHY LEDWITH set out in search of America. Today, he remembers who he—and the country—were. (Personal Essays | March 6, 2008)

Known for Her Crumb Cake

Staten Islanders are an insular crowd; but once the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connected them to the rest of New York, everything changed. Well, maybe not everything. TIMOTHY LEDWITH remembers the night a new world opened. (New York, New York | January 23, 2008)


TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

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RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...