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Ex-Prisoner Shares Story at The Schoolhouse
It was standing-room-only at Croton Falls' Schoolhouse Theater Saturday evening when filmmaker T. J. Parsell presented three short films based on his experiences as a juvenile offender in Michigan's maximum security Jackson Prison...

400 Occupy activists arrested in Oakland
More than 400 protesters were arrested during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean-bag projectiles, city officials said Sunday...

Three New York city cultural institutions closing soon
Three New York City institutions are closing their doors soon, and news of the future of those spaces is not welcome. The face of Park Slope, Brooklyn, has changed over the past ten years since revered . . ...

Blog Post: Green screen & CGI make ABC's "Once Upon a Time" 's fairytale settings seem real
For Mouse House fans, half the fun of watching this acclaimed ABC Studios production is its funhouse mirror take on so many of Disney's animated classics...

Chinese New Year's Parade in Chinatown NYC
Celebrity interviewer and CNN iReporter Aladino went down to China Town to admire the parade with the dance of the dragons...

NHL All-Star Game: 10 Cities That Could Host a Future All-Star Weekend
The NHL All-Star Game is one of the highlights of the hockey calendar every year...

Elite NYC Schools Must Admit More Students With Disabilities - Care2.com (blog)

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Elite NYC Schools Must Admit More Students With Disabilities
Care2.com (blog)
by Kristina Chew New York City school chancellor Dennis Walcott has ordered the city's elite high schools to admit more students with disabilities. The city's screened high schools admit students based on test scores, essays and interviews.
Top schools ordered to admit special needs kidsNew York Daily News

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Secrets from Six-Figure Women
For New York City's wealthy intelligentsia, the sleek confines of the unmarked and discreet Core Club serves as an escape from Midtown. In the past few years, the luxurious private social club often featured forums on the economy, inviting members to listen to Carl Icahn, Andrew Ross Sorkin and George Soros lament on the tectonic ...

Boston trailing NYC on Internet - Boston Globe

Boston Globe

Boston trailing NYC on Internet
Boston Globe
By Hiawatha Bray Carbonite's David Friend, shown logging on to his firm's site, sees his company struggling in New York. In the race to build a local sector of innovative Internet companies, Boston and New York City are both growing fast - but a new .

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NYC woman's suspicious death in tub plays out in court with husband accused . - Washington Post

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NYC woman's suspicious death in tub plays out in court with husband accused .
Washington Post
NEW YORK EUR” Shele Covlin's body was found in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment by her 9-year-old daughter on Dec. 31, 2009. Her young son was still asleep in his bed. The only obvious sign of trauma was a cut on the back of her head, .
Husband eyed in death of NY woman found in bathtubBoston.com

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Dream of tapping tides as energy resource lives on
As a new federal report touts the potential for tidal energy and a license has been approved for the nation's first such project, a proposal to tap the tides of eastern Long Island Sound as a power source has been revived...

New York City Ballet in New 'Carillons' at Koch Theater - New York Times

New York Times

New York City Ballet in New 'Carillons' at Koch Theater
New York Times
Christopher Wheeldon and New York City Ballet have a special relationship. Perhaps there were some bruised feelings when, in 2008, he resigned as resident choreographer EUR” a position City Ballet had created for him in 2001 EUR” to concentrate on his own .
At Ballet, an Injury OnstageWall Street Journal

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New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program
City Ballets Wendy Whelan, Megan Fairchild and Ashley Bouder show off their evolving skills in a program of ballets by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins...

Assembly speaker to introduce minimum-wage hike bill Monday
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, plans to introduce legislation Monday that would increase the state's minimum wage to $8.50 an hour starting Jan...

New York City to open Academy for Software Engineering
High school would give foundational education in technology Visit website for full story...

Robert Lindsay, Mayors Brother at J.P. Morgan, Dies at 86
Robert V. Lindsay, the brother of a two-term New York City mayor, whose 37-year career at J.P. Morgan & Co. culminated in seven years as House of Morgan president, has died. He was 86...

Cobi Narita's 80th Birthday
Jazz in New York would not have been the same without Cobi. Some of the musicians would not have survived and prospered if it hadn't been for [her] One afternoon in 1978 throngs of spectators clogged the sidewalks at the corner of Broadway and 52nd Street, while musicians and caterers set up in front of the club Casablanca, for the third day of . (more)..

Partnership For Inspired Education
Police are asking for the public's help finding a 72-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease who went missing Saturday night on the Far South Side...

Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues at Davos
The mountain resort of Davos pictured during the last day of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan...

Planned Parenthood Purchases
The nations biggest abortion business has purchased part of a building in..

Couch Slouch: A viewing guide to Super Bowl 46
Let's be honest here: Nobody outside of New England -- which somehow combines angst and arrogance when it comes to its sporting interests -- wants to see the Red Sox or the Patriots take home another World Series or Super Bowl title ever...

Patriots get warmer-than-usual reception in Indianapolis
Super Bowl jitters? Not for a veteran of the big game like Tom Brady, who arrived with the Patriots in Indianapolis on Sunday...