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New York Has Higher HIV Rates, Best Drinking Water

Thu Aug 28, 10:07 AM

A Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report that says HIV spreads three times faster in New York than elsewhere in the US has been widely covered, and appears in today's New York Times. The key facts are that "4,762... More >>

Making Local Politics Marginally Less Dull

Thu Aug 28, 9:53 AM

We commend Atlantic Yards Report for taking a portion of the transcript from last Saturday's environmental-impact hearing on the proposed development and presenting it as a dramatic text with "echoes of absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett."... More >>

Obamarama: The Local Angle

Thu Aug 28, 8:40 AM

Obama's nomination and upcoming speech at INVESCO Field in Denver are such big news that even New Yorkers are noticing. Gowanus Lounge reproduces a couple of Obama wall images in Brooklyn. Williamsburg is Dead sends its readers to tonight's... More >>

NYC RFD: Tragedies, Politics, Yankees

Thu Aug 28, 6:14 AM

Yesterday armed robbers killed El-Hajj Kareem Shabazz in the video store he owned in Brownsville, reports the New York Daily News. Friends and relatives recall him as generous to all, including underfunded customers. "The really stupid thing,"... More >>

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  • Lawsuits and the Langston Hughes House
    A Harlem cultural touchstone, like so many others, closes off its past
    Wednesday, August 27
    It isn't hard to find the Langston Hughes house in East Harlem: It's midway down the block named in his honor (Langston Hughes Place, a section... More >>
  • The Crown Heights Lubavitchers
    Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions
    Wednesday, August 27
    Like many other young men in Crown Heights, Itzik Balulu studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts from early in the morning to well into the... More >>
  • Congressman Charlie Rangel Gets a Rival
    Craig Schley, an activist and former male model, capitalizes on anti-Rangel feeling
    Wednesday, August 27
    "I don't have any opponents," Congressman Charlie Rangel told a New York Times reporter earlier this month. "There is no one that doesn't like... More >>
  • Sotheby's, a Retired Teacher, and California Artist Martín Ramirez
    Auctionable behavior in the middle of a folk-art fight
    Wednesday, August 27
    Last January, at the intersection of art and money, a retired teacher living in rural California quietly contacted Sotheby's. And so began a... More >>
  • Letters 8.27.08
    Wednesday, August 27
    Don't Joke About Barack Re Roy Edroso's 'The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama' [August 20–26]: Not only is Edroso too kind to... More >>
  • The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama
    Looking back on his first term
    Tuesday, August 19
    Until a few counties in places like Florida and Ohio decide this thing on Election Day, we're skipping ahead a few years. We're impatient that... More >>
  • Talking Strategy with Mets' Manager Jerry Manuel
    And Tolstoy. . .
    Tuesday, August 19
    This needs to be said one more time: Willie Randolph was shafted. I don't mean the way he was fired, on California time. I mean that he was made... More >>
  • Letters 8.20.08
    Tuesday, August 19
    Aimless and Andy Re Wayne Barrett's 'Andy's Kids' [August 6–12]: This has to be the stupidest piece ever written by Mr. Barrett. There are... More >>

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Broward - Palm Beach

Blood Diamonds

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it
It's a creepy feeling, knowing these masked men have cased you for weeks, studying your every... More >>

Dallas

Enter Stage Right

With the curtain falling on its old playhouse,Dallas Theater Center gets its act together with a new leader
Scene 1: Enter the prince It's the first hour of the first day of rehearsal for Dallas Theater... More >>

Denver

Barack Obama gives principal Michael Johnston extra credit

At 3:10 p.m. on May 28 — dismissal time on the last day of school at Mapleton... More >>

Houston

The Passion of Victoria Osteen

A flight attendant went after the Osteens in court, bringing on trials and tribulation for one and all
Every little Catholic boy and girl knows about the Stations of the Cross. (Maybe other... More >>

Kansas City

With the end of Bodies Revealed, Kansas City’s troubled Union Station faces another uncertain future

It's still spring, and tickets are selling strong for the Bodies Revealed exhibit in the bowels... More >>

Miami

Violent Jewelry Thieves Prowl South Florida

They give new meaning to the term blood diamond.
It is a creepy feeling, knowing these masked men have cased you for weeks, studying your every... More >>

Minneapolis

A field guide to the Republican National Convention

Meet the deranged, debauched and deluded characters coming to Minneapolis and St. Paul for the RNC
After almost two years of anticipatory civic brouhaha and financial hand-wringing, the... More >>

Phoenix

Joe Arpaio’s men fail to justify criminally charging New Times reporter Ray Stern in a public records dispute

When I read our lawyer's interviews with the deputies in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's... More >>

San Francisco

Going for Gold

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.
A quick glance through a propped-open door at Kezar Pavilion reveals a dozen or so women of... More >>

St. Louis

Kevin Slaten's Head Is About to Explode: The exiled sports-talk radio ranter needs to get some things off his chest

It sounds like Kevin Slaten's head is about to explode. "If the story goes like that, there'll... More >>

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