| | | The Fight for Ferdinand Marcos's Cash BY ALBERT SAMAHA  In 1971, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos deposited $2 million into the Merrill Lynch account of Arelma Inc., a Panamanian dummy corporation he created. Over the next 15 years he would rule his country as a dictator. He stole $10 billion from public funds. His regime executed between 1,500 and 3,300 political opponents, tortured tens of thousands, and arbitrarily detained more than 100,000 people. The horror was endless and repetitive. Military officials unleashed machine gun fire on a unit of Muslim recruits after the young men signed a petition protesting a three-month delay in pay. A priest named Edward Gerlock was sent to a prison camp for defending farmers from American fruit co... more >>
| | | | | | Hudson Valley Mushrooms Hit the Table BY HANNAH PALMER EGAN  More than 100 miles north of the city, on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, the three Bulich brothers grow mushrooms on land their grandfather began farming in 1945. Not long after the elder Bulich emigrated from the Balkans, fungus farming in the Catskills became something of a bandwagon. "There was a mad rush in the late 1930s for mushrooms, so a lot of little farms popped up," Mike Bulich ... more >> | | | | | | 'Cinema of Resistance': Reels of Rage BY MELISSA ANDERSON  'I make films—that's what I can do for Vietnam," says Jean-Luc Godard in the omnibus anti-war project Far From Vietnam (1967). If you replace "Vietnam" in that statement with, for starters, Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Northern Ireland, the French West Indies, various factions of the New Left, and the Occupy movement, you'll have a sense of the bracing scope of the Film Society of Linc... more >> | | | | | | | | All Art Is Propaganda BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNé  George Orwell inhabited a certain counterfeit Chinese curse like a silk kimono: He lived and wrote in interesting times. Having experienced world wars, ideological smackdowns, intellectual lunacy, and what George Packer (editor of an Orwell collection from which this column's title is filched) called "dilemmas over the role of the writer in a period of partisan upheaval," criticism's white knight... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Don't Hassel the Hoff, the old wisdom goes. A 36-year-old Shelton, Connecticut convenience store clerk, heeding the warnings of our forebears, tried to stop a man from stealing signs with images... Fork in the Road If the almost-blue moon sighting brought out the animal in you--or if it was just too bright to sleep--relaxing with a cheap drink might help bring you back down to earth. Here's a round-up of o... Sound of the City Macklemore has good intentions in his hit song "Same Love." They are intentions I won't bother rehashing or defending because you've heard the song blasted in every store, car, bus, boutique, and ... After Dark NY Got sexy problems? In this, Naked City's newest feature, I will attempt to help readers figure out matters of the heart and loins such that they might copulate without confusion. Today, we take u... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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