10th congressional district atlantic yards voter guide the ratner clan likes ed towns atlantic yards is only one reason to remove an incumbent who only shows signs of life when hes up for reelection but its reason enough to loosen the ratners purse strings four ratners including bruce and his extended family in ohio as well as forest city ratners clevelandbased parent forest city enterpris...
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barack obama doing what he had to do politically clearly got a little angry with reporters and urged them to stay away from stories about the pregnancy of theapresum ptivearepu blican vicepresidential nominee sarah palins seventeenyearold daughter bristol. families are offlimits he said. except when they shove those families in our faces. palins biography was named as a big reason for her pick. p...
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welcome once again. youve had a long hard week. i know you have. its ok. dont let it grind you down. stand strong. stay firm. hope for change. change for hope and all that empty rhetoric. browse to your mouses content. look around. poke a bit. welcome to the weekly town crier where i collect for you the links and such that interested me and such throughout this past week. please remember just beca...
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ill be speaking from 12301 on the leonard lopate show in new york on wnyc 93.9 fm and am 820 elsewhere online here.. ill be traking about red state blue state the book coauthored with fellow cager david park among others. maybe will even think of something to say about obamas speech......
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were very excited to announced the newest signing and a wonderful wonderful piece of art in gabriel kahanes selftitled album.today august 28th he will be a featured guest and performer on wnycs soundcheck with john schaeffer. listen here at 2pm also look for a feature article in new york magazine in their september 15th issue.to celebrate the release of the album gabriel will perform a new york ci...
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john lithgow reading roald dahls story taste from wnycs selected shorts.......
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click here to download ers20080827 129 weve got a good show for you everyone. more stories on the five year old that fell down the hoistway in new york as the da is launching an investigation into the accident to determine if there was any wrong doing by anyone. i think that this might be the first incident where a district attorney has gotten involved...at least its the first time that ive heard...
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playing tonight its freaking tuesday and how brilliant that the olympics finished just in time for the democratic national convention. here is the dncs full tuesday schedule hillary clinton headlines. music hall of williamsburg dr. dog plays a rescheduled soldout show with senator r. stevie moore and miles benjamin anthony robinson cake shop brooklyns callers will release their fulllength album ...
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i just learned from rob mccausland via the alliance for community media listserv that dee dee halleck and dan gilmor discussed the question is public access tv still relevant on the leonard lopate show on wnyc today. i havent had an opportunity to listen to it yet but since the topic was the subject of my graduate thesis at emerson college i look forward to hearing the discussion. i am sure it w...
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speaking of leitmotifs its a primary topic of conversation in this wonderful wnyc radio program about richard wagners quartet of operas the ring cycle. it might seem hyperbole to claim as many wagnerites do that the ring cycle is the greatest work of art ever. but the grandeur and power of this monumental work have permeated our culture from star wars to bugs bunny to j.r.r. tolkien. and led zep...
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last wednesday the city held public hearings on three huge landuse plans but only two of those were widely reported upon the rezoning of the lower east side and the redevelopment of willets point. the third hearing concerned hunters point south formerly known as queens west and the development there of 5000 units of housing 60 percent of which according to wnyc would be set aside for residents who...
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gov. paterson is talking starting at 10 a.m. on wnyc radio in new york city. you can listen to it here.......
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fcc commissioner robert mcdowell at a tech policy summit. picture by techpolicysummit used under a creative commons license. with some new information im adding to the timeline i created to demonstrate the significance of fcc commissioner robert mcdowells comments on net neutrality which is also a useful link to check out if youre unfamiliar with the fairness doctrine a few days ago. the situatio...
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john mccain raised more than 1.5 million at a new jersey fundraiser tuesday night and upwards of a third of it came via donations through the proisrael political action committee norpac with even more coming through other norpacaffiliated donors. but the president of the group said that the fundraiser was not an official endorsement of the arizonan and if there was interest the pac would be willin...
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this story about a canadian woman who can set her water on fire is old news but it caught my eye because the reason as far as i can tell that she can set her water on fire is because when the local oil company was drilling for natural gas nearby and they used a technique called hydraulic fracturing often shortened to hydrofracing to shake the oil loose from the geological formations underground. t...
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today marks the opening of the political battle over net neutrality. to this date all the talk of serieses of tubes and sporadic and localized attempts to create a tiered internet have been mere skirmishes. but today robert mcdowell an fcc commissioner attempted to push net neutrality into the political fray during an election season and unleashed the first coherent attack on net neutrality.a to ...
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im looking for books articles movies or documentaries about conartists pathological liars. im doing research for a project on pathological liars con artists like the young woman hope who is profiled in the deception episode of radiolab or the woman discussed in this thread. i am looking for profiles or articles on conartists and the psychology thereof who are more of a pathological liar type...
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that was the subject of a segment on wnycs brian lehrer show yesterday. brooklyn brewery cofounder steve hindy lamented the lack of industrial space in the borough a subject hes been pushing since publishing an account of his fouryear search for new space with the center for an urban future in june. despite the dismal prospects hindy remains committed to brewing brooklyn beer in you know brooklyn....
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i listen to a lot of podcasts. they are a great way to get the news that interests me and i also thoroughly enjoy the many stories that i listen to on various programs. three of the best stories ive heard in a long time are the giant pool of money from this american life. tal has been one of my favorite radio programs for many years and this episode on the u.s. mortgage crisis is one of the best p...
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in an article in todays los angeles times i examine the widespread notion that barack obama has been underachieving especially relative to the performance of a generic democrat.my conclusion is that this characterization is a bit misleading. the apparent underperformance of obama can partially be explained by structural factors most notably the fact that the democrats have a wider more diverse coa...
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the candidate the new galapagos art space tonight begins the monthly political film screening and discussion at the brand spanking new galapagos art space in dumbo brooklyn. they will be screening the candidate which won for best screenwriting in the 1973 oscars. the film stars robert redford and its about eugene mccarthys 1968 democratic campaign. all you need to do is rsvp below and you can...
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i am very excited and a little proud that roger ma a frequent contributor to this blog has been selected as the team chief of the new community board 7 cert team for the sunset parkwindsor terrace area of brooklyn. as readers may recall roger contacted me in the spring after i discussedamy own involvement in cert on wnycs brian lehrer showato express his interest in joining the program. luckily it...
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wnyc news radio by matthew schuerman details about the congressional inquiry into the yankee stadium financing might seem a little offtopic but keep in mind that the yankees have requested additional bond financing and that bruce ratner hopes to take advantage of the same in order to finance the nets arena. the story about the yankees deal took an interesting turn yesterday when wnyc reported...
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there is no new state polling today but i have rolled forward the numbers based on the continual good performance for barack obama in the national trackers and the latest several editions of the economistyougov poll which is conducted on a weekly basis but updated on the economists website only occasionally. the downtrend in obamas numbers since the july 4 holiday has now completely flattened out...
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don hunstein was columbia records inhouse photographer for 30 years and he snapped photos of bob dylan johnny cash billie holiday muhammad ali and charles mingus to name a few. the morrison hotel gallerys soho loft 116 prince street nyc is now hosting a new exhibit of his photos in session at the columbia records 30th street studio. grammywinning producer writer and record executive michael cuscun...
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