The game lasted for 4 hours and 50 minutes - making it the longest in 'All-Star' history. I only watched a bit of it (mostly because I don't understand baseball) but it was a pretty exciting game - although my dad...
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I really support this. I like urban chickens. There were some in New York. "The allure of fresh eggs daily and natural pest control is too much for some Toronto locavores, and despite the city's prohibition, some...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled an ambitious scheme to close a section of Braodway to motor traffic. The newly-liberated stretch of asphalt will run from Times Square (42nd St) to Herald Square (36th St). This project, as well as Bloomberg's failed...
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The trains are now running according to schedule."Amtrak suspended train service between New York City and Philadelphia for about 90 minutes “as a precautionary measure” after what the train company called a...
ATLANTA, Georgia, January 24, 2008
Amber Rhea, co-founder of Georgia Podcast Network, and organizer of the upcoming Sex 2.0 conference, takes issue with alt-weekly Creative Loafing's January 16, 2008 article on a...
Dezeen has several renderings of this very tall and spiky tower designed by the french architect for midtown manhattan. "Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the formal selection of Paris-based architect Jean Nouvel as the designer of a new...
"The "Cashmere Mafia" has finally aired on ABC tonight and although I missed the first part , what I saw was enough to make my early verdict.
Please excuse my high expectations from the show caused by the long break...
Apparently a small amount of acid was improperly mixed and one person was severely burned when the reaction went off. Four floors and at least 700 people were evacuated from the building that houses Fox News New...
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"Some awesome news out of Manhattan today. CBS Corporation has announced today that it will "light up" midtown Manhattan with the creation of the "CBS Mobile Zone," a wireless high-speed network enabling New Yorkers with Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones, laptops or other devices to...
"I have argued that in the closing stages of a `fascist shift', events cascade. I am hearing about them, even across the globe. Here in Australia I hear from the nation's best-know feminist activist, and former adviser to Paul Keating, Anne Summers, who was also at the time...
Update: the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb."
The police bomb squad is investigating the explosion of a pipe bomb at 1:10 a.m. outside a four-story building in Chelsea that houses a nonprofit theater studio founded by Michael Imperioli, an actor from “The Sopranos,”...
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In Tokyo's newest, glitziest urban development area named Midtown, just five to ten minutes' drive away from the now famous Roppongi Hills, sits a voluptuous, modern art museum. Designed by famed architect Kisho...
The multimedia capabilities of the Mac have proven a little too easy: people have been coming into Apple Stores solely to surf MySpace and upload media created on demo macs. In response, Apple has blocked access to...
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