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GOLDFRAPP AT THE MUSIC HALL

August 30th, 2008

clipped from www.radiocity.com Goldfrapp, known for their visual theatrics and contribution to the popularization of electronic dance music, comes to New York City on Friday, September 12, for a very special concert at Radio City Music Hall after selling out the Beacon Theatre earlier this year. Sphere: Related Content

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JIMMY ( OR JIMMIED?) JUSTICE

August 29th, 2008

A guy calling himself “Jimmy Justice” is a self-styled “cop-arazzi” who prowls the streets of New York City and searches for law enforcement officials who may be breaking the very laws they’re paid to enforce. His weapon is a video camera and Johnny targets illegally parked government vehicles (particularly those of traffic cops) that are [...]

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HUNGER ARTISTRY’S FINAL DAYS

August 24th, 2008

Gone are those happy vagabond times in New York City when the starving artist lifestyle was where it was at for those lost in search of themselves. In that idealistic utopia of body and soul, anyone who helped themselves but took too much risked ostracized despair. To starve was a badge of defiance and it [...]

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THAT LOOKS TASTY

August 22nd, 2008

clipped from nymag.com First Look: Inside JetBlue’s Food Court This is JetBlue’s new dining experience at JFK Airport. A gorgeous feast for the eyes and possibly one for the stomach as well. It could put a person into a sort of “Fly Me To the Moon” state of consciousness, and I’m sure that it will [...]

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DEATH’S BEAUTY

August 20th, 2008

When I was a child, I stumbled upon a photograph in Life magazine that appeared to be that of a beautiful girl peacefully asleep. The fact that she was fully-dressed, if rather disheveled, and while this moment lay frozen in time as well as crumpled in space, her face caught my attention and suspended any [...]

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YET ANOTHER TOWER

August 18th, 2008

clipped from www.brooklynpaper.com TOREN RISING: Engineers are installing the silver-blue aluminum and glass façade at Toren, a 400-foot, 38-story tower rising at 150 Myrtle Ave., near Flatbush Avenue Extension. Tenants at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed building are expected to move in next spring, and, despite the downturn in the economy, a spokeswoman for the [...]

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In 2007, six years after the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD was set to introduce advanced radiation detectors to protect the city. These are small devices which specially trained police would carry in knapsacks to patrol prime terrorist targets. Named the “KO Kit” after their developer Detective David Kao, the detectors were to be complemented with [...]

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SUN SAVED BY MOON

August 15th, 2008

The first half of the 19th century saw major advancements in the field of astronomy…but also, amidst the starry-eyed excitement, extraordinary speculations. As knowledge of the solar system increased, attracting scientific and popular attention, science oftentimes  gave way to science fiction as theories and hypotheses became all the rage among scientific luminaries and charlatans alike. [...]

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SEEING DOUBLE?

August 14th, 2008

clipped from cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com Photograph by Damon Winter/The New York Times Pedestrians pass through a pattern of light projected onto the crosswalk under the 207th Street subway platform in Manhattan as Nelson Garo paddles the Harlem River from a launching point only a few blocks away, in Inwood Hill Park. In the current Lens photography series, [...]

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GHOST STATION

August 12th, 2008

The IRT‘s original City Hall station was part of NYC‘s first major subway project and designed as a ceremonial terminal for the mayor. Construction began on 24 March 1900 in front of City Hall, its steps leading to the station’s entrance, from which NYC mayors could expound on the benefits of mass transit and, more [...]

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ADVENTS OF IMAGES

August 11th, 2008

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibit called “Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840-1940″ through September 1. Photography’s evolution from daguerreotypes to its modern underpinnings in the 1930s is explored here. Whereas pioneering efforts in photography astounded their first audiences, giving them a new understanding of time-space, these photographs astound us by [...]

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JUST A THOUGHT, AGAIN

August 9th, 2008

There was a considerable amount of excitement at the Empire State Building yesterday. A power failure left groups of people trapped in elevators for 30 to 40 minutes; a spokesperson for the ESB said it was more like 15 minutes. While no one was injured, many people, especially those suffering from claustrophobia or prone to [...]

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