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The Miraculous Phenomenon That Is Sully

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Flight 1549, Sully Sullenberger, 92nd Street Y, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Making a Difference Sully Sullenberger, Miracle on the Hudson, Making a Differernce, New York News

Three years after his heroics on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger still has the Big Apple eating out of his hand. He still says all the right things and amazingly he thinks his greatest accomplishments lie ahead.

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To Jerry, With Love

Rob Taub | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Steve Martin, Dean Martin, Jerry Stiller, Paul Shaffer, Friars Club, Jerry Lewis, Martin Short, 92nd Street Y, Robin Williams, David Letterman, Comedy News

On my ninth birthday, my parents took me and a group of my friends to see the Jerry Lewis comedy The Disorderly Orderly. It was one of my happiest childhood memories and I've always had a special place in my heart for Jerry Lewis.

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The New Jews Of Cameroon

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Gospel of Matthew, New Testament, Cameroon, Judaism, Beth Yeshourun, Africa, Christianity, Old Testament, 92nd Street Y, Kulanu, Religion News

Is Serge Etele and Congregation Beth Yeshourun the vanguard of a new and surprising revitalization of Judaism out of Africa?

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7 Things To Do On Christmas Eve

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Video, Christmas Eve, New York Restaurants, Ny Weekend Events, Christmas Eve in New York, NY Around Town, New York Events, 92nd Street Y, New York News

No plans Christmas Eve? No in-laws to mingle with? Or trees to trim or kissing to be done under mistletoe? You are not alone. There are many who will ...

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Krugman Argues For Spending Similar To World War II

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Fiscal Affairs, Gold Standard, Sylvia Nasar, Spending, Government Spending, Fiscal Stimulus, Kurgman, Paul Krugman, World War II, 92nd Street Y, Great Depression, Business News

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economist and New York Times columnist, said Tuesday that the United States needs to spend on a scale ...

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Sidney Lumet: The Prince of New York City

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 06.12.2011

Sidney Lumet was a quintessential New Yorker -- street smart with a bleeding heart and a head full of immigrant, everyman voices.

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Women, Power, and Politics: What Are You Willing to Do?

Lily Blau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jezebel.com, Blogosphere, Politics, Women, Activism, Power, Feminism, 92nd Street Y, New York News

What, exactly, are feminism's current goals? As Sarah Palin and the 2008 election, as well as the most recent one in 2010, proved, it isn't necessarily a question of just getting women into power.

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92nd Street Y's Steve Martin Event Ends In REFUND

nytimes.com | FELICIA R. LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Martin Interview, 92nd St Y, Deborah Solomon, NY Culture, 92nd Street Y, Ny News, Steve Martin, New York News

In the history of intellectual chatter, the events of Nov. 29, 2010, at the 92nd Street Y will be archived under disaster. Or comedy. That night, a...

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Diane von Furstenberg Speaks of Her Past, Present and Future

Hayley Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norman Pearlstine, Diane Von Furstenberg, Diane Von Furstenberg CFDA, Wall Street Journal, NY Around Town, 92nd Street Y, Style News

Known formerly as Princess Diane of Fürstenberg, she never knew what she wanted to be, but she did know the woman she wanted to become.

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Culture Wars Return to Washington and New York

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Martin, Religion, Congress, Culture Wars, Deborah Solomon, Martin Sullivan, New York Times, National Potrait Gallery, Media, National Endowment for the Arts, Bill Donohue, New York, 92nd Street Y, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

As a Presidential Appointee in the 1980's to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Arts, it pains me enormously to see a replay of the Culture Wars that were played out so destructively in those years.

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Rethinking How We Learn and Work

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attention, Ellen Galinsky, Focus, Tony Hsieh, Distraction, Edward Hallowell, Mind in the Making, Linda Stone, Technology, Children, Schools, 92nd Street Y, Education News

We need to focus on managing our attention and energy, not just our time. Some schools are experimenting with providing longer time periods for learning and finding that it can be very effective.

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How Educating A New York City Kid Can Cost You Over A Million Dollars

The Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia Law, Groton School, Most Expensive High Schools, Most Expensive Preschools, Most Expensive Colleges, New York City Private Schools, Dalton School, 92nd Street Y, New York News

New York City is home to some of the best schools in the country, but they don't come cheap. The economic downturn hasn't stopped colleges from going ...

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Seen and Heard in New York: Helen Mirren, Renee Fleming, Chuck Close

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christopher Finch, Renee Fleming, Chuck Close, Nimet Habachy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Annette Insdorf, Helen Mirren, 92nd Street Y, New York Film Festival, Julie Taymor, New York News

Actress Helen Mirren, interviewed by Annette Insdorf, director of undergraduate film studies at Columbia University, at the 92nd St. Y www.92y.org in ...

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Seen and Heard in New York: Laura Linney, Diddy, Sally Potter, Tilda Swinton, Lupe Serrano

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laura Linney, Guggenheim Museum, Lupe Serrano, Peter Rosenberg, Sally Potter, Jordan Roth, American Ballet Theatre, Museum of Modern Art, Diddy, Tilda Swinton, 92ytribeca, 92nd Street Y, New York News

Laura Linney, star and producer of the new Showtime series, The Big C, and star of Time Stands Still, which is resuming its Broadway run this fall, in...

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A New Yorker Looks at Our Mosque Dilemma

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, Saul Bellow, Jacob Schiff, 92nd Street Y, Michael Bloomberg, Susan Sontag, T.S. Eliot, New York News

I'm also discouraged when some of my fellow liberals behave with wanton naiveté, and indeed callousness, in brushing aside as irrelevant the pain of the families of the 3,000 people killed on 9/11.

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An Ode to the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Novemeber-4th, Ground Zero Mosque, War on Terror, Michael Bloomberg, President Obama, Sarah Palin, Twitter, Newt Gingrich, 92nd Street Y, September 11th, New York City, Osama Bin Laden, Imam Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Cordoba House Ground Zero, Comedy News

'Twas nine years after the September 11th attack, But the faultlines revealed by that trauma are back. Where once, we were a nation that mourned for ...

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Spitzer Knocks Bloomberg, Obama Financial Team

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eliot Spitzer, Bloomberg Wall Street, 92nd Street Y, Larry Summers Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer Wall Street, New York News

Eliot Spitzer is at it again. In an appearance at the 92nd Street Y Sunday night, the disgraced former-governor-turned-political-critic took shots at...

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Susan Wadsworth: Almost 50 Years of Young Concert Artists Series

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bella Hristova, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Zankel Hall, Carter Brey, Peter Oundjian, Fred Sherry, Eugenia Zukerman, Ray Chen, Vassar, Global Citizens, Bard College, Tokyo String Quartet, Kurt Masur, Heiichiro Ohyama, Paula Robison, Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre, Jim Luce, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Korea, Dawn Upshaw, Tokyo, Joel Shapiro, Olli Mustonen, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, Kennedy Center, Ani Kavafian, Zarin Mehta, Yo-Yo Ma, Borromeo String Quartet, Germany, Brasserie Cognac, Carolina Ullrich, Mannes College of Music, Washington D.C., Van Cliburn, Lincoln Center, Susan Wadsworth, Itzhak Perlman, Young Concert Artists Series, New York, Japan, Leontyne Price, Annaliese Soros, Hahn-Bin, Noe Inui, Leon Botstein, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Stephen Burns, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Kyung-Wha Chung, Fukuoka, Ran Dank, James Levine, Nobuko Imai, Thought Leaders, Ruth Laredo, 92nd Street Y, Chee-Yun, Leipzig, Arts News

Not many people can fulfill their passion - and build an institution - for fifty years. Susan Wadsworth can. The founder of the Young Concert Artist...

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Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troupe Presents Spring Series Juntos - "United"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Library, Puerto Rico, Beacon Theater, Hammerstein Ballroom, Switzerland, New Choreographers Ensemble, Jazz, Thought Leaders, Eric Vlach, Zalman Raffael, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Philippe Bachy, Martha Graham School, Afro-Caribbean Music, Maxine Steinman, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Oiww, New York State Council on the Arts, Fund for Creative Communities, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Lucia Campoy, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, John Lee, Max Lifchitz, Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troupe, Carnegie Hall, Dominican Republic, Benjamin Briones, Tisch School of the Arts, Latin America, Joseph Papp Latin Festival, Mexico, Jogujo Circuit, Stefania De Kenessey, Mexican Dance, Ailey School, North/South Consonance, New York City, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Columbia University Teachers College, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Mayab Happy Taco, Existentialism, Frank Cassara, Marcos Emanuel De Jesus, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Global Citizenship Award, Cantare Mi Bomba, Agdt, Jorge Fuentes, Orphans International Worldwide, Heather Panikkar, Richard Grimm, Spain, 92nd Street Y, Annabella Gonzalez, Juntos, Fanfare, Entertainment News

The latest offering from the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troup (AGDT), Juntos ('United'), was triumphant. I was particularly impressed with the strengt...

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Seen and Heard in New York: Sam Mendes, Juliet Rylance, James Taylor, Liev Schreiber

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Old Vic, Liev Schreiber, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sam Mendes, Carnegie Hall, Juliet Rylance, James Taylor, 92nd Street Y, New York News

"I would say American audiences are often more vocal than English audiences," says Juliet Rylance, who plays Miranda in the Bridge Project'sThe Tempest at BAM.

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Andy Borowitz and Friends Take the Y

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Borowitz, Obama's First Year in Office, Janeane Garafalo, Jonathan Alter, Calvin Trillin, Culture Scene, Jeffrey Toobin, 92nd Street Y, New York News

No small competition to run up against the State of the Union address, but Andy Borowitz and friends managed to fill New York's 92nd Street Y Wednesday night to the rafters.

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Ashley Olsen, Isaac Mizrahi, Robin Givhan Discuss The Future of Women's Fashion

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashley Olsen, Robin Givhan, Future of Women's Fashion, Cindi Leive, Isaac Mizrahi, 92nd Street Y, Style News

Why do people love to hate fashion? There was a lot of finger pointing in an attempt to answer the age-old question at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday ...

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Isaac Mizrahi: "Fashion Needs To Be More Fetishistic"

nydailynews.com | Gatecrasher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashley Olsen, Isaac Mizrahi Fashion, Glamour Magazine, 92nd Street Y, Isaac Mizrahi, Style News

Isaac Mizrahi's clothing line may be getting ... kinky. ...

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Wintour Discusses Retailers' Prospects, Vogue.com and the Influence of Advertisers on Vogue's Content

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vogue, Jonathan Tisch, French Vogue, Anna Wintour, 92nd Street Y, Caroline Roitfeld, Style, Discount, New York-New York, Style News

Wintour: "I don't think that Vogue should turn into Recession Weekly. But at the same time, I think we have to be very aware of what's going on in the world."

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Nursery University in New York April 24

Marc Simon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toddlers, Parenting, Sundance Film Festival, Film, 92nd Street Y, Preschool, Media News

Nursery University explores the stories and emotions behind the school directors who are forced to reject many deserving families solely based on the schools' lack of capacity.

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