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I generally do not like Broadway shows. While I appreciate the talent, the stagecraft, etc. of Broadway shows, I just don’t generally connect with the style of music. And yet, in January 2022, during the height of Omicron, I saw two Broadway shows in one week that absolutely blew my mind. Both shows were last minute. Totally unexpected. I received […]
NYC crime rates in the 80s and 90s In New York City and nationwide, there is a rise in crime rates. While the violence is not identical to the climate of the 80s and 90s, the sharp spike in crime rates should cause some concern. Between 1990 and 1998 crime rates decreased tremendously. During their respective tenures, New York City […]
It’s not an easy task to speak with someone belonging to a people oppressed like the Ukrainians are currently; you might expect to feel pity, shyness or horror. None of those feelings came to me when I spoke to Alla Pysana, an active member of the Ukrainian Community in Turin, Italy, which has organized many sit-ins and demonstrations for peace […]
More students will be introduced to journalism during high school, thanks to Lara Bergen, former children’s book editor and founder and interim director of Press Pass NYC. The idea came to Bergen five years ago when she was teaching English at Louis D. Brandeis High School, which at the time did not have a school paper. “I didn’t know how […]
In other news I notice the Bike-Nazi-Politicos have proposed eliminating parking for the Not-Really-Affordable-Housing (NRAH) going up in “transit rich zones.” Our new Beep, Antonio Reynoso, leads a cast of nine Brooklyn Council members, including Alexa Avilés (Red Hook/Sunset Park) and Lincoln Restler (Dumbo/Boerum Hill) who sent a letter (penned by Reynoso and Restler but yet to find its way […]
What happened was we decided to find five places in the neighborhood, actually four in the neighborhood and one outside the neighborhood… Brian: but not too far away – George: and check out their sandwiches. This was at lunchtime on different days, and each of us had half the sandwich. The idea was to go to these places and ask […]
I was introduced to George “Crime79” Ibañez by my friend, and George’s fellow graffiti legend, Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro. George and I spoke on the phone and then agreed to meet in Long Island City, near where I grew up. When I stopped by his office on 23rd street, under the 7 Train truss, I couldn’t believe how much that area […]
Defining High-Value The monetary worth of something, a fair return or equivalent in goods or services, or relative worth, utility, or importance. These statements are definitions of the word value. Now, browse the web in the self-help and dating spheres, and you may come across the phrase, high-value man. The use of the term high-value man has been growing […]
France had been since the early 19th century a major occupying power in Africa. Its Empire ended mostly after WWII, but Paris has never totally left alone its former colonies and still exercises strong control on most of them through the International Organisation of La Francophonie. Not all the formerly occupied nations are in the organization and it is striking […]
Visitors can have a magical time at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, thanks to a limited time-only exhibit that connects classic twentieth-century century Walt Disney films with eighteenth-century European history and artwork. Nestled between the Greek and Roman Art gallery and the European sculpture and decorative arts gallery is “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,” the […]