This week: We polled Columbia students, faculty, and staff about the school’s response to the encampments and more. • The myth of the affordable three-bedroom. • Our chief restaurant critic reviews a couple of wine bars that are also restaurants. • Could rat contraception be the solution to rodent control?
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As the unrest at Columbia University became the most contentious story in America, students on campus produced phenomenal journalism. For our latest cover story, New York partnered with the Columbia Daily Spectator to create this beat-by-beat, on-the-ground oral history of the encampments at the school, from their erection to the night the NYPD stormed campus, told from the inside.
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After Flaco was found dead earlier this year with rat poison in his system, Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill named for the Eurasian owl that would pilot the use of contraceptives to help control the city’s rat problem. Clio Chang asked a rodentologist about the science behind rat birth control, the trickiness of tracking its effectiveness, and rat ticklishness.
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Wine bars are taking over the city, naturally — keeping pace with the natural-wine boom and as a matter of course. Chief restaurant critic Matthew Schneier visited two new wine-forward restaurants — Penny on the east side, and Demo on the west — and determines which receives the honor of being known as his “top pick.”
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Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty
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In New York City, true three-bedroom apartments have always been rare and coveted, but never have the pickings been so slim — or expensive — and anyone with a halfway decent one isn’t giving it up. Kim Velsey spoke to families left in apartment purgatory and brokers to analyze why the rental market is currently seeing a three-bedroom shortage.
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Enrique Olvera’s Esse Taco has opened in Williamsburg.
Photo: Natalie Black
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Film Forum, May 8.
Few people have fought as magnificently onscreen as Elizabeth Taylor and her twice-husband Richard Burton do in Mike Nichols’s 1966 adaptation of the Edward Albee play. Private Life director Tamara Jenkins will appear for a post-screening Q&A with Philip Gefter, who recently published a book about the making of the film. —Alison Willmore
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Decoda | Weill Recital Hall, May 14.
A corps of graduates of Carnegie Hall’s fellowship program Ensemble Connect hangs a folk-infused suite of recent works by Caroline Shaw, Billy Bragg, and Hannah Kendall on a closing performance of Copland’s Appalachian Spring. —Justin Davidson
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The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt | Metrograph, May 11 through 27.
A Kelly Reichardt retrospective is a chance to commune with her singular films on the big screen, in particular her quietly devastating collaboration with Michelle Williams, 2008’s Wendy and Lucy, about a woman road-tripping with her dog to Alaska in search of work. —A.W.
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Oliver Wasow | Theodore, 373 Broadway; through May 11.
Photographically and digitally generated images of ruins, rifts in the earth, fires, flooded plains, and ravaged golf courses suspend us in an eerie world of man-made destruction. Since the 1980s, Oliver Wasow’s images have had more insight and edge than Hollywood’s. —Jerry Saltz
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Pressure | BAM, May 10 through May 16.
Horace Ové died last year and sadly wasn’t able to see the restoration of his 1976 film — the first Black British fiction feature — premiere at the London Film Festival. Catch this portrait of a Trinidadian British teenager torn between his parents and his brother’s involvement in the Black Power movement. —A.W.
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