If I may be permitted a moment of both personal and collegial pride, please check out the new edition of CityArts, the first under its new editor, the brilliant film critic Armond White. For those of you in Manhattan, you can pick it up in boxes and the lobbies of better buildings all over town, and the rest can take a look at it on line.

There’s a provocative piece by NRO’s own Jay Nordlinger on the music of 9/11, and a challenging essay about two Davids, Letterman and Mamet, by Gregory Solman that ought to boil some blood somewhere. Plus extensive coverage of the other performing arts and the visual arts.

At a time when high culture has become a dirty word — not just on the “progressive” left, but also on the troglodyte right, where a strain of know-nothing anti-elitism occasionally rears its ugly head — it’s good to see a company like Manhattan Media putting resources into a publication like this, and I urge everyone to check it out.

The fact that I’m married to its publisher, Kate Walsh, of course has nothing to do with my admiration for the venture.