All events on Thursday October 23
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- Rob da Bank w/ Hercules and Love Affair DJs
- Thursday Oct 23 (11pm) @ Hiro Ballroom
- Rob da Bank has hosted shows on BBC Radio 1, released records and put on club nights under his Sunday Best label, and founded the... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Dialogues with Design Legends: Architecture
- Thursday Oct 23 (8:15pm) @ 92nd St Y
- Known for his bold deconstructivist designs, architect and founder of New York's Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Peter Eisenman starts the conversation uptown tonight,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Crystal Stilts w/ Cause Co-Motion
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Pianos
- The catchy psych-pop ditties of Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts could have been recorded in 1966 outside a 13th Floor Elevators show. Of course there's a little... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Magnetic Fields w/ Shugo Tokumaru
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre
- Stephin Merritt, the man who brought us the Future Bible Heroes, the 6ths, and the Gothic Archies, returns to NYC — OK, Jersey. But that's... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
- Daptone Family Fundraiser for Barack Obama
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Southpaw
- Staten Island-bred Budos Band bring their lush Afro-soul stylings to Brooklyn, all in the name of "that one." The 12-piece band draws on traditional Ethiopian... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre More times »
- Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is finally a true ensemble... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Crystal Castles
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
- Sold Out!
- In the age of MySpace, having a handful of limited-edition 7-inches to your name doesn't mean you're off the radar: Toronto duo Crystal Castles had... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sam Champion w/ the Jealous Girlfriends, Mancino, and the Silent League
- Thursday Oct 23 (7:30pm) @ The Bell House
- Brooklynites the Jealous Girlfriends — whose much-hyped shimmering sound has earned them praise from not just us, but the Times, and airplay on shows like... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Charlie Louvin w/ Oakley Hall
- Thursday Oct 23 (7pm) @ 92Y Tribeca
- Perhaps most famous for the early '60s fire-and-brimstone ballads he sang with his now-deceased brother Ira ("Satan Is Real" couldn't spell things out any more... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Pela w/ the Muslims and Frances
- Thursday Oct 23 (10pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- Led by Columbia PhD. student Paul Hogan, Frances play lushly orchestrated indie pop that's bound to attract references to bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jukebox the Ghost w/ ARMS
- Thursday Oct 23 (7:30pm) @ Fontana's
- DC trio Jukebox the Ghost draw ready comparisons to Ben Folds Five (mostly because of pianist/lead singer's Ben Thornewill's classical training), with jubilant sing-alongs ("Hold... View details »
- Music: Classical
- So Percussion
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Glasslands Gallery
- Free
- So Percussion's off-kilter approach to performance is inarguably arty; however, the group is far from gallery-opening frou-frou. Rather, its bizarrely orchestrated works are rife with... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Global Hip-Hop Throwdown feat. Pharoahe Monch
- Thursday Oct 23 (9pm) @ Drom
- Raised in South "suicide" Queens, Pharoahe Monch could have easily become a well-to-do drug dealer or a gully rapper riddled with bullet holes. Instead, he... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Black Hollies w/ Skeletonbreath
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
- Steeped in Nuggets-style gold, the Black Hollies are a pitch-perfect homage to gods of '60s garage. Buzzing guitar crackles through intense psych-outs, as drooping vocals... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Puzzling the World: Sudoku & Crosswords
- Thursday Oct 23 (6:30pm) @ Japan Society
- True New Yorkers not only ride the subway, but also hit up the the paper's daily crossword or Sudoku puzzle on their way to work.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Thursday Oct 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
- Free
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- Art
- Blek Le Rat
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints. In 1981, Blek took... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Thursday Oct 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Deprogram
- Thursday Oct 23 (10pm) @ Love More times »
- Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam at basement-tastic venue Love,... View details »
- Art
- Mario Merz
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Art
- NeoHooDoo
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The sculptors and mixed-media artists... View details »
- Art
- Street Art, Street Life
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Big Terrific
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Sound Fix More times »
- Free
- If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be had outside of comedy... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Thursday Oct 23 (7pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
- Film
- Rachel Getting Married
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
- Film
- Humboldt County
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fault Lines
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Cherry Lane Theatre More times »
- David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a couple of likable buddies... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Thursday Oct 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
- Art
- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- Thursday Oct 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Doug Aitken
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery More times »
- Free
- Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
- Art
- Signs of Change
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Exit Art More times »
- Free
- The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Thursday Oct 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–9pm) @ Museum of Arts and Design More times »
- To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items — buttons, keepsakes, bits... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
- Film
- Choke
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Ear to the Earth Festival
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical beauty. Francisco López's Trilogy... View details »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
- Free
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- I Kiffe NY
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
- Film
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
- Film
- Filth and Wisdom
- Thursday Oct 23 @ IFC Center More times »
- The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna? Euro Madonna? Blond Ambition... View details »
- Film
- Lola Montes
- Thursday Oct 23 (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Free Night of Theater 2008
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in cities across the country.... View details »
- Art
- Gilbert & George
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
- Art
- Four Color Sound
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ The Project More times »
- Free
- Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
- Art
- Stas Orlovski
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Mixed Greens More times »
- Free
- One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–6pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in which common modern-day objects... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Thursday Oct 23 (8–10pm) @ Barrow Street Theater More times »
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago. The 90 minutes of... View details »
- Art
- Martín Ramírez
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Wig Out!
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The colorful story moves through... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Thursday Oct 23 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
- Art: Festival
- National Design Week
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
- Free
- The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens its doors to the public for an entire week of free admission and programs. Peruse two to-scale-sized rooms... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Olaf Breuning
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures More times »
- Free
- Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
- Art
- Sun K Kwak
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–7pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
- Free
- Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
- Art
- The Genretron
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–6pm) @ Winkleman Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
- Art
- Perverted by Theater
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
- Art
- Quilts of the 1930s
- Thursday Oct 23 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch More times »
- For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women during the Great You-Know-What.... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- Essential Repertoire
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room More times »
- During a certain week in October, NYC experiences a sharp influx of music-industry nerds, reminding everyone of this city's musical history and still-thriving scene. Darmstadt,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
- Art
- The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill More times »
- Free
- Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Cages... View details »
- Art
- Jean Dubuffet
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
- Free
- Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art brut" (which involved mixing... View details »
- Art
- Time Machine
- Thursday Oct 23 (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery More times »
- Free
- With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the juxtaposition is becoming a... View details »
- Art
- '80s Babies
- Thursday Oct 23 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
- Free
- With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on canvas, board, and scraps... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Pumpkin Pie Show
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Under St. Marks More times »
- Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction, worked on a film... View details »
- Art
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Thursday Oct 23 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits feature an array of... View details »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Thursday Oct 23 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a tight formal language of... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Chanel Mobile Art
- Thursday Oct 23 (8:30am–6pm) @ Rumsey Field in Central Park More times »
- Free
- Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of NYC. Celebrating 50 years... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- If You See Something Say Something
- Thursday Oct 23 @ Joe's Pub More times »
- We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded terror alerts and arbitrary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Beachwood Drive
- Thursday Oct 23 (7pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
- Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a world of prostitution and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Thursday Oct 23 (8:45pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Thursday Oct 23 (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- Thursday Oct 23 (7:30pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Farragut North
- Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns... ash; including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid... ash;... his knowledge gives us an insider's perspective on... View details »
