In 1969, Stefano Ripamonti was feeling good about life. He was in his late twenties, working a glamorous job at an Italian high fashion shoe firm. He’d recently married his childhood sweetheart and ...

Many songs have tried to capture the essence of New York City. These four 70s classics do as good a job as any.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state officials agreed on Friday to relax harsh 1970s drug laws that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in favor of laws that will let judges send ...

For a vivid trip to the LGBTQ past, forget quantum physics or flux capacitors — a growing Facebook group, Gay New York 1970s and 80s, serves as a virtual online time machine, guiding its tens of ...

In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever. Pace McGill and Paul Kasmin ...

The historical novel, once considered the height of kitsch—Henry James described it as “condemned … to a fatal cheapness”—has staged a remarkable comeback over the course of the last several decades.

Ben Whishaw in "Peter Hujar's Day" by Ira Sachs. Credit: Sundance Institute From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's Day is a ...