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Photograph of workers getting Shepard Fairey's new window installation ready by Tom Andrews for LAist
LAist visited artist Shepard Fairey's latest window installation . SFist indulged in such political debating as clean energy vs. PG&E; , ads for proposition 8 ( the same-sex marriage ban ...
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Weeks after the Department of Education sent a memo around to principals trying to get them to crack down on teachers expressing their political views in the classroom, the teachers' union has responded with a lawsuit saying the rule demanding they maintain neutrality in front of students ...
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Today's Post gives a heads up about the site Diaroogle , the place to visit if you're in Manhattan and in need of a public restroom. What started as a gag project for developers Evan Cooney and Kevin Burg has turned into an extensive resource for desperate New Yorkers who can download it as an ...
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Alton Brown has been on the Food Network since waaay back in the early days of its existence, teaching viewers about the science behind food and cooking with his hit show, Good Eats. His cooking demo at the Wine and Food Fest on Saturday had the air of a stand-up routine, and not just because ...
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Photograph of commuters walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on December 20, 2005 by Jake Dobkin
The Daily News reports that the MTA has been meeting with the Transit Workers Union , "holding secret negotiations to hammer out a contract months ahead of schedule - and without the usual ...
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After the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the same-sex marriage ban , opponents have set their sights on demanding a constitutional convention . The AP reports groups, including Catholic Bishops , are looking for support for a convention, which is on this November's ballot. However, Conn. ...
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is currently holding a press conference declaring her support for the mayor's proposal to extend term limits. Her announcement ends Quinn's remaining mum on her official stance since Mayor Bloomberg announced his intentions to maneuver for a third term ...
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Jets coach Eric Mangini gave his newborn son the middle name "Brett" after quarterback Brett Favre. Zack Brett Mangini, 7 pounds and 13 ounces, was born on Friday, which is also Favre's birthday! Mangini apparently promised to bestow Brett on his unborn child when the Jets were wooing Favre, ...
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Photograph of 401 West 18th Street in Manhattan, where a fatal fire claimed five lives, by David Karp/AP
Fire officials say that the smoke detector in a 6th floor Chelsea apartment that claimed five lives yesterday morning had been unplugged . The Daily News reports that the "smoke ...
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The first immigrant to enter America through Ellis Island was finally given a proper burial yesterday over eighty years after she died. Annie Moore immigrated from Ireland as a 17-year-old on January 1, 1892 and was given $10 in gold for her place in history. For many years, historians had ...
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Last night, vice-presidential candidate--and perhaps the world's most famous hockey mom--Sarah Palin dropped the puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' Wachovia Center for the team's season opener against the NY Rangers. And she got resoundingly booed . See the video:
Fans from the ...
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For the second time in as many days, a residential fire took the lives of New Yorkers, this one taking place in Bushwick. A 33-year-old man and a twelve-year-old boy perished in the fire that broke out in a three-story house just after midnight. EMTs had rushed both to Wyckoff Hospital where ...
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Photo of Sara Palin dropping the ceremonial first puck between New York's Scott Gomez and Philly's Mike Richards by AP/Tom Mihalek
Rangers 4, Flyers 3 : The Rangers, 4-0, are off to their best start in 25 years after defeating the Flyers on Saturday. New York got all their scoring done ...
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From the Gothamist Newsmap : an armed robbery at the Duane Reade on 14th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, a suspicious package at the Chase Bank on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn and an overturned auto on the FDR at 63rd St.
A court will decide whether ...
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A week after Speaker Christine Quinn said that the Council doesn't typically write in any "Lauder" options into its legislation, critics are saying that Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to extend term limits has done just that . The mayor's proposal introduced Tuesday has been amended to explicitly ...
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The NY Times reports that NYC business titans--CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Blackstone, News Corp--met with state and local officials "to discuss how they and government officials should respond to the financial crisis." And not surprisingly, "all seemed to agree that now ...
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"M" by Megu: Expensive Tribeca Japanese restaurant Megu has redone its upstairs space (formerly Kimono Bar) into a swank nightclub (pictured) with a "small bites" menu. The dance floor has been expanded, fancy cocktails like “Death in the Afternoon” (Absinthe, Champagne, Rock Sugar) have been ...
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Things are going well in Jets land. Eric Mangini's wife had a baby. The child has the middle name of Brett and shares a birthday with the Jets' starting quarterback. The team is coming off a bye its biggest offensive output in recent memory. To make things better, the 0-5 Bengals that are ...
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The gang at Eater has set up a blogger lounge, complete with laptops galore and shiny red espresso makers pumping out much-needed caffeine, as a central wifi hotspot for the food bloggerati to interact with chefs and other food festival notables. The Rachel Ray fly-by was earlier today, but ...
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It's been a week and a half since the bike rack prototypes have been unveiled and already one of the model is broken! Reader Mick sent in a photograph (above, on the right) of the "cable rack" style prototype looking pretty unsecured.
Designer Next Phase Studios describes the Cable Rack ...
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