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Kevin M. Ryan: A Conversation With Laura Bush: "Education Is the Key"

2012-05-28T22:50:53Z

"With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others. Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights."

Read more: Covenant House, Teach for America, Barbara Bush, Volunteering, Pepfar, New York City, Global Health Corps, Spoken From the Heart, Laura and Barbara Bush Opportunity Scholarship, Covenant House International, Laura Bush, Impact News

Mallory Yael Seegal: One Poem: "Conversation Piece #1"

2012-05-28T20:04:01Z

Who was that girl we were with anyway, she was weird. I always say, you know how I always say that people with multicolor hair are trying to make statements with words they were too dumb to learn in school -- that girl.

Read more: Drunk, Omg, Girls Hbo, American Poetry, Poetry, New York, New York City, Cocaine, Arts News

Bobby Elliott: Change: On Kehinde Wiley's 'An Economy of Grace' at Sean Kelly

2012-05-25T18:33:44Z

On the surface, "An Economy of Grace" is a well-timed game-changer for painter Kehinde Wiley. After making a name for himself by exclusively painting men, "An Economy of Grace" presents Wiley's first series of portraits featuring women.

Read more: Brooklyn Museum, Kehinde Wiley, Painting, New York City, Sean Kelly Gallery, African American Art, Kehinde Wiley Sean Kelly Gallery, Kehinde Wiley an Economy of Grace, Arts News

Marian Wright Edelman: Time to Stop "Stop and Frisk"

2012-05-25T17:27:35Z

The silent Father's Day March will be a chance for people of all backgrounds to walk silently down New York's Fifth Avenue together to convey to New York City leaders that it is time to stop treating hundreds of thousands of our young people of color like criminals when they have done nothing wrong.

Read more: Union Leaders, Labor, Al Sharpton, Stop and Frisk, b.c. Civil Liberties Association, Nypd, Unions, Polics, Racial Profiling, New York City, Seiu, New York News

Biz Leaders To GOP: Minimum Wage Raise Is 'Past Due'

2012-05-24T13:31:03Z

As lawmakers in Albany, N.Y., contemplate a boost to the state's minimum wage, a group of business leaders came out Thursday in support of hiking the ...

Read more: Albany, Video, Andrew Cuomo, Labor, Minimum Wage, Costco, Low-Wage Workers, Workers, Wages, Low Wage Jobs, Economic Crisis, Gop, New York, New York City, Politics News

Ellen Freudenheim: Beat the Barclays Center Traffic Blues: Use Mass Transit

2012-05-24T12:36:58Z

I have a case of anticipatory road rage from being stuck in stadium traffic. To solve the anticipated parking crunch, the Barclays Center should make it harder to park, to scare drivers away from the arena. Here are 7 ideas:

Read more: Traffic, Green Urban Planning, Barclays Center, Brookyn Nets, Forest City Ratner, Brooklyn New York, New York City, Barclays Center Traffic, Barclays Center Parking, Brooklyn Traffice, New York News

How To Deal With College 'Culture Shock'

2012-05-23T10:18:26Z

By Hannah Orenstein

The transition from high school to college is undoubtedly one of the biggest you'll make throughout your life. Some of those ch...

Read more: Move, Small Town, College, College Transition, High School, City, Campus, Big, College Life, Rural, Her Campus, Culture Shock, New York City, Teen News

NYPD: Person Has Implicated Himself In Boy's 1979 Disappearance

2012-05-24T07:43:54Z

NEW YORK -- The New York City police commissioner says a person who's in custody has implicated himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz (A...

Read more: Etan Patz Disappearance, Etan Patz Death, Video, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Raymond Kelly, Etan Patz, Soho, New York City, New York, New York City Police Department, New York News

Hal Jackson Dead At 96

2012-05-24T00:30:00Z

NEW YORK -- Radio pioneer Harold "Hal" Jackson, a staple of New York radio, has died. He was in his late 90s.

Jackson died Wednesday in a hospital, s...

Read more: Hal Jackson, Hal Jackson New York Radio Pioneer, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Hal Jackson Dead, Obituary, New York City, New York, Black Voices News

Alan Singer: Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

2012-05-23T10:00:07Z

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

Read more: Ernest Hemingway, Social Responsibility, Michael Bloomberg, Race to the Top, Mother Jones, Upton Sinclair, Bill Gates, Huck Finn, Barack Obama, New York City, Pearson Education, Margaret Mead, Rupert Murdoch, Teachers, Teaching, Frederick Douglass, Education News

Tida Tippapart: Creating the Post-Hipster City: In Conversation With Urbanist Aurash Khawarzad

2012-05-22T16:15:58Z

Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash Khawarzad speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.

Read more: New York Around Town, New York Hipster, New York City Urban, New York Architecture, Aurash-Khawarzad, Urbanism, Brooklyn Hipster, New York City, New York Art, Culture News

Daniel J. Kushner: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival and the Invisible Architecture of Musical Taste

2012-05-22T10:27:46Z

Upon experiencing Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, however -- the New York City festival that Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner of the band The National were commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) to curate -- genre distinctions emerged more grossly superficial than ever before.

Read more: Ecstatic Music Festival, Music Festivals, Genre Labels, Buke and Gase, Judd Greenstein, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival, My Brightest Diamond, Brooklyn Academy of Music, So Percussion, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Brooklyn, New York City, Arts News

Rick Ayers: Anarchists, Cops, the Super Rich -- It's New York 100 Years Ago

2012-05-22T10:04:00Z

In More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, many will find parallels to the current social crises, from the upheavals of Occupy Wall Street to the manipulations of the super rich.

Read more: Ludlow Massacre, Emma Goldman, The One Percent, American History, Progressive Movement, Weather Underground, New York City, Anarchy, John D. Rockefeller, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, New York History, More Powerful Than Dynamite, Book Review, Books News

No More Chocolate Behind Bars?

2012-05-21T18:08:11Z

This news should definitely leave a bad taste in the mouths of New York city jailbirds: Junk food may soon be banned from jail cells.

City official...

Read more: Weird Food, Video, New York Crime, Prison Junk Food, Michael Bloomberg, Junk Food Jail Ban, Junk Food Banned in Jail, Prisons Ban Junk Food, Samantha Levine, Weird New York, New York, New York City, Jails Ban Junk Food, Crime News

PHOTOS: Nick Jonas Hits The Streets For AIDS Walk New York

2012-05-21T16:27:00Z

This year's AIDS Walk New York (AWNY) shone a little brighter this year with the help of a Jonas brother.

Just before wrapping his run in the Broa...

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Nick Jonas, Video, Aids, AIDS Walk New York, AIDS Walk, Michael Urie, Slideexpand, New York City, New York, Gay Voices News

Holly Robinson: How Obama Won Me Over With a Single Speech

2012-05-21T11:54:48Z

I don't know how to explain this bizarre transformation. The closest I can come is to say that the president emanated an energy that was so generous and good in spirit that I swear I could almost see the halo.

Read more: Community Service, Patriotism, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Barnard College, Selma, Commencement Speech, College Graduates, New York City, Volunteerism, Stonewall, Politics News

Oyster: PHOTOS: 5 Of The World's Most Expensive Hotel Suites

2012-05-20T09:30:00Z

You can only imagine our heart palpitations when we see the nightly rates of these hotels' top-of-the-line suites.

Read more: Travel, Hotels, Travel Blog, Hotel Suites, Travel News, Washington D.C., Hotel News, Beverly Hills, Presidential Suites, Barcelona, Slidepollajax, New York City, Dallas, Travel News

Joe Cirincione: The Avengers ' Nuclear Villain

2012-05-18T15:18:43Z

The blockbuster problem in The Avengers is the writers' desire to turn a nuclear weapon into a golden bullet that can save the day -- even if this bomb is more likely to ruin it.

Read more: Broken Arrow, Nato, The Avengers, Thunderball, Skyline, Nuclear Weapons, Aliens, Independence Day, Armageddon, Global Zero, New York City, Gen. James Cartwright, Dr. Strangelove, Entertainment News

The After-School Crisis: What Mayor Bloomberg's Massive Cuts Could Mean For One Of The Most Highly Regarded After-School Programs In The Country

2012-05-18T14:55:44Z

Some of the poems were about love and some were about clouds, but what really mattered about the P.S. 63 poetry reading on Wednesday night was the tim...

Read more: Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Ost, Manhattan Schools, Bloomberg Budget Proposal, After-School, New York Education, New York City, New York Afterschool, Bloomberg, Out-of-School Time, Campaign for Children, After-School Programs, Childcare, City Council, New York Schools, University Settlement, Childcare Cuts, Michael Zissner, Education News

Liza de Guia: WATCH: Wooly's Ice - Making Shaved Ice Desserts Cool Again

2012-05-18T10:35:00Z

"In my head, I just know that if our business failed, it's not because of the product, it's definitely because of our business acumen - that's how m...

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Juan Cartagena: Latino Stop & Frisk

2012-05-18T07:50:57Z

In 2012, with Stop & Frisk continuing unabated, it seems like the more we complain the more Commissioner Ray Kelly and his occupying forces conduct Stop & Frisk. And Latinos are disproportionately found within its web.

Read more: Stop & Frisk, Prldef, Nypd, Zero Tolerance Policing, Latino Youth, Latino Prosperity, New York City, Black Youth, Over-Policing, Latino Voices News

Brad Lander: Do You Think It's Fair...

2012-05-17T14:22:07Z

Many employers in New York City and across the country routinely use credit reports to discriminate against job applicants with poor credit histories. This puts people in a cruel Catch-22.

Read more: Credit, Predatory Lending, Responsible Banking Act, Brooklyn, Credit Rating Agencies, Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, New York City, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, Video, New York News

Gordon Whitman: Fed Up With Big Banks

2012-05-17T11:17:56Z

When individuals, religious institutions and local and state governments decide to move their money, it puts direct pressure on banks and on the federal government to change their policies. Cities and states have incredible leverage if they chose to use it.

Read more: Foreclosure, Big Banks, Los Angeles, New York City, Banking, Move Your Money, Banks, Bankers, Get Money Out, Credit Unions, Business News

Oyster: PHOTOS: The Country's Ultimate Rooftop Bars

2012-05-17T07:00:00Z

If you're daydreaming about sipping on a perfectly made cocktail a few stories above street level too, check out our selection of the hottest hotel rooftop bars across the country now.

Read more: Miami, Rooftop Bars, Drinking, Travel, Hotels, Food and Drink Travel, Fort Lauderdale, Bars, Slidepollajax, Hotel Bars, Los Angeles, New York City, Travel News

Oyster: PHOTOS: 5 Space-Age Hotels Perfect For The Jetsons

2012-05-16T07:00:00Z

With everything from funky lighting to pod-like bedrooms to orbit-ready mobiles, these hotels are ready for the 22nd century.

Read more: oyster.com, Hotel Decor, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Futuristic Decor, Decor and Design, Slidepollajax, New York City, Las Vegas, Travel News