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Many movies can be found on Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, Peacock, and Amazon Prime Video. There is a significant amount of time spent finding the ideal film to

In the news for the week ending March 25, 2022, are horological headaches, comic-book cash-ins, discarded dentures, grilled chocolate sandwiches, and more.

“Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story,” a feature-length documentary about a pioneer of freeform radio, zooms in on some odd stuff.

The trailer for this documentary shows today’s New Yorkers saying they had never heard of Steve Post. The film itself tries to make a case that they ought to have.

Steve Post, a mainstay of New York radio at WNYC and WBAI, paved the way for Howard Stern and others with free-form radio.

I’ve been a member of two unconventional congregations in New York. One was in the East Village and was financed by several lawyers in the Bronx. Hardly anyone paid dues but our Hasidic rabbi still fed his gaggle of converts, Baal Tshuvahs and crusty Lower East Side geezers, including a Jew known as Murphy who once had a pushcart in the neighborhood. The shul’s caretaker was a veteran of the East Village squatter scene. He scared the bejeezus out of me one shabbos: after drinking a few l’...