Althoff engages multiple art modes—from painting to making music, as a band member of Workshop and under the pseudonym Fanal.

Dale Peck on how New York ruins itself and his new novel, The Garden of Lost and Found.

What did that most verbose of all musical art forms have to say about the defining event of the last decade? Many rappers said a little, while one rapper said a lot. Juelz Santana, unknown on Sept. 11, 2001, has proved for better or worse to be its chief memorializer in hip-hop.

Immigrant #8: Under a Public Skin

On the corner of 33rd and 5th,

Even more extraordinary than the putative subject of Linda Hattendorf’s debut documentary, an elderly homeless artist, is the fact that Hattendorf started aiming her camera at him long before September 11, 2001. 

The Practice + Theory series is sponsored in part by the Frances Dittmer Family Foundation.

Bill Frisell and I have some things in common. We both play guitar differently than other boys and girls. And, before Bill moved to Seattle, we both were “downtown guitarists.” 

Clifford Ross deals with his personal helplessness during the events of September 11th as he discusses his new perspective on his own actions, as well as the world.