Talking racism and housing with the writer behind HBO’s ‘Show Me a Hero’ A Q&A with Lisa Belkin, whose narrative nonfiction about public housing in Yonkers inspired the HBO miniseries. By Erica Brody August 27, 2015 10:38 am
‘The Wire’ creator and HBO’s favorite son David Simon is working on two new shows One of them involves James Franco playing identical twins who set up a porn business in 1970s-era Times Square. August 10, 2015 6:40 pm
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina Last week marked the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans. The Jews of the Crescent City weren’t spared, losing several houses of worship and suffering a huge population drop that took years to recover. August 29, 2013 2:56 pm