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Rockwell Group’s Blue School brings a pop of color to Lower Manhattan

Rockwell Group’s design for the recently opened Blue School in New York City falls outside the lines of traditional design for primary and secondary education, especially in the cramped Big Apple. read more

Classical music diversity — or the lack of it

I came across a column that started this way: “Advertisers are increasingly looking for ways to appeal to consumers of color ... loud — that pop acts appeal to various demographics, and not just to br... read more

Richie Ingui of 'Expressway to Your Heart' Philly Sound group Soul Survivors has died

The Ingui brothers grew up on Manhattan's Lower ... color skin you're in," they sang in the ode to their adopted hometown. In 1976, they recorded "Happy Birthday America" for PIR, to mark the nation's ... read more

Reasons to Love New York

Top: Three reasons to love New York ... high-school-graduation rate hit a record high of 72.6 percent. Because Public School’s fashion show featured models sporting “Make America New York” hats (cap p... read more

Fox Poised to Win Rights to ‘Thursday Night Football’

A spokesman for Fox Networks Group, the operating unit that includes Fox Sports ... of games dilutes the TV networks’ inventory of football, allowing them to seek lower pricing and avoid some of the l... read more

The ACLU Appears to Endorse a Ban on Catcalling, Despite Huge Free Speech Concerns

(In the U.S. at least, the government would disproportionately arrest poor people, immigrants, and people of color for catcalling.) Yes, I am aware that a single tweet does not indicate a broad struct... read more

The Beatles Created the First Gateway Song for Children With ‘Yellow Submarine’

But if you talk about a group who had a nation of young faces pressed up against ... a children’s music artist from Lower Manhattan who can be seen every morning on PBS Kids. “For me, as a children’s ... read more

Bob Iger Opens Restored Offices Where Walt Disney Once Worked

His formal desk stood in front of Norman Rockwell portraits of his daughters and figurines from his company’s films. A model of the company’s Grumman Gulfstream jet stood atop the desk. In a secondary ... read more

Did NASA Validate an “Impossible” Space Drive? In a Word, No.

The EmDrive therefore got little notice outside of the “weird science” web sites. Last year, a Chinese group reported success with a similar device, prompting another blip of fringe coverage but littl... read more

Hillary Stuns--Four Theories

But I'm confident that soon enough there will be so many powerful explanations for what now seems an out-of-the-blue event that it will appear to ... But once the focus-group results were in, "amnesty ... read more

The Case for Living in Staten Island

Express buses pick up throughout the borough and take an hour to get to lower Manhattan, depending on traffic ... schools (like the pre-K–12 Michael J. Petrides School in Todt Hill). Staten Island Tec... read more

How Market Forces Undermine Racism: Uber Cab Edition

One of the downsides of the neighborhood was that I could never, and I mean never, find one of New York City’s otherwise ubiquitous yellow taxis when I needed speedy passage to lower Manhattan or ... ... read more