The sixth version of SPRING/BREAK Art Show outgrew its former location at the James A. Farley Post Office and currently occupies the 22nd and 23rd floor of the former Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square.

Wandering the aisles at VOLTA NY can be compared to browsing the racks at your local upmarket thrift shop: every now and then an Armani jacket catches your eye among the Merona sweaters. This year’s edition was no different. 

All your prospective partners may be divided into two groups: those who will fall in love with you, if you let them, and those who regard a relationship as an exchange (what Aristotle called an “advantage friendship”) in which the currency is sex.

My wife’s death left me numb, sexually as well as emotionally. Once she started chemotherapy, physical intimacy ended; she had said the chemo left her feeling like there were fire ants under her skin. 

She knows love. Oh, does she know love.

Sometime around 6 a. m.: He was shy, but I saw him looking at me. I was dancing, I was happy, I wasn’t thinking about hooking up. But there was something about him.