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Runnin' Scared

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

Sat Nov 7, 9:22 AM

?Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local foliage tours are here.... More >>

Quick Hits

Fri Nov 6, 4:02 PM

After complaints during the campaign about their connection with Data and Field Services and related unfavorable press reports, the Working Families Party has retained the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom to "conduct a thorough... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Fri Nov 6, 3:55 PM

After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home... More >>

Post-Parade Chaos on the Staten Island Ferry

Fri Nov 6, 2:20 PM

Not necessarily happy with today's Yankee parade: some Staten Island commuters caught in the crush of revelers who were making their way back to the Forgotten Borough afterwards. "'It was chaos,' says commuter who was stuck in overcrowded... More >>

News Features «

Features

  • The Strangest Landlord-Tenant Relationship In Town?
    Stacked up in cubicles for decades, immigrants living in a Bowery tenement may have a very unusual situation.
    Tuesday, November 03
    The smell of piss and fish paste are palpable even outside the locked door of 81 Bowery, a four-story tenement just a few buildings up from Canal... More >>
  • We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
    Tuesday, October 27
    Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? When are we going to punish the culprits? When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during... More >>
  • Bake Sale Crackdown
    The Department of Education says its bake sale policies will help combat obesity, but students worry they'll be left starved for funds
    Tuesday, October 27
    Every year, the Beacon School in Manhattan produces a literary magazine called Beacon Ink, featuring students' short stories, poetry, and... More >>
  • A Columbia Skyscraper Clouds Views for the University's Astronomy Students
    Tuesday, October 27
    Despite all the bright lights and tall buildings here in the center of the universe, Rutherford Observatory, on the roof of Columbia University's... More >>
  • The City's Bid to Save Cash Leaves New Teachers Out in the Cold
    Tuesday, October 27
    Emily Pellman was on the verge of fulfilling her dream of becoming a public school science teacher when the door to getting her own classroom was... More >>
  • CUNY Hopes Computer Simulation Can Help Profs ID Students at Risk
    Tuesday, October 27
    For Lehman College Counseling Center director Dr. Annecy Báez, the math is inescapable. With only two full-time counselors and four... More >>
  • Class Action Listings
    Tuesday, October 27
    Theater and Performing Arts Budding American idols ready to take their singing career to the big time—or, at least, beyond the bounds of... More >>
  • Best of NYC 2009
    Tuesday, October 20
    The Great Depression II is over. We survived. We’ve recovered. Or, at least, some of us have: The Dow climbed back over 10,000, and the... More >>

National

News from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

A New Times Staffer Takes a Safari Into Scam Baiting on 419Eater.com

I was in the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, getting ready to board a flight to... More >>

Dallas

Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.

An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the... More >>

Denver

The writing's on the wall for KOZE, a graffiti vandal who thought he'd never be caught

Over the two years that George Gray has been a detective with the graffiti unit of the Denver... More >>

Houston

Getting Off

Attorney Tyler Flood says he wins 80 percent of his clients' DWI trials, even if they were 100 percent drunk as a skunk.
Sergei Tukanov drove his gold Nissan Maxima through a red light toward the end of a Sunday... More >>

Kansas City

After keeping an eye on victims of the Hyatt disaster, KC shrinks have bad news for the grief-counseling industry

Five days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Vickie Taylor led a group of firefighters... More >>

Miami

Miami parking nightmare: From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy

Haitian cabbie Pierre Jean-Charles climbed into his yellow taxi van while cradling a bottle of... More >>

Minneapolis

Brett Rogers vs. Fedor Emelianenko: The Baddest Man on the Planet

Heavyweight Strikeforce fight to air live on CBS Saturday
SOME UNRULY GOD bestowed Brett "The Grim" Rogers with the physical gifts needed to knock out... More >>

Phoenix

Losing Erica: Cynthia Clark Harvey Doesn't Want Anyone Else's Child to Die in a Wilderness-Therapy Program

Cynthia Clark Harvey climbs the stairs to the second floor of her north Phoenix home, pausing... More >>

San Francisco

Under Fire

Mike Estrada was supposed to be ordered away from a burning building by his superior. It was just one of many mistakes that put him in harm's way.
The smell of smoke was enough to spike firefighter Mike Estrada's bloodstream with adrenaline.... More >>

Tom Robbins «

  • A Dose of Albany Fraud from Tony Seminerio

    By Tom Robbins

    Anthony Seminerio, former Queens assemblyman, limped through the federal courthouse on Pearl Street last week, a sagging wreck of a man. It was...

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  • The Mayor's Press Pass

    The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

    By Tom Robbins

    One reason for the remarkably charmed life of Mike Bloomberg's administration as he sails toward re-election has been the waning of the city's...

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  • Mayor Bloomberg's School-Snack Bungle

    Vending machine politics

    By Tom Robbins

    Public health has always been Mike Bloomberg's strong suit, and last week, he pressed ahead with his latest initiative: new vending machines...

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  • The Acorn Tapes

    Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan's West Side, stands up for the Constitution

    By Tom Robbins

    It was hard to know who to be angrier at in the candid camera caper pulled off by a pair of right-wing video bandits last month in the Brooklyn...

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  • Bloomberg's Term Limits Scheme

    How Mayor Mike gamed the system

    By Tom Robbins

    As it heads into the home stretch, the Bloomberg campaign has adopted a new slogan to sum things up and help focus voters on the big picture. The...

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Nat Hentoff «

  • The Strip-Search Room

    Students manhandled by police in Bloomberg's schools have no place to complain

    By Nat Hentoff

    When our mayor and schools chancellor accept awards from national education organizations for regenerating New York City's schools, they somehow...

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  • Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

    I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

    By Nat Hentoff

    I've borrowed Woody Guthrie's 1942 song to report that this is my last column for the Voice. I'm not retiring; I've never forgotten my exchange on...

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  • Federal Court Defendants Joel Klein & Ray Kelly

    Our Education Mayor remains silent about police abuses of students in public schools

    By Nat Hentoff

    While Joel Klein was among those being seriously considered by Barack Obama for Secretary of Education—Chicago Superintendent Arne Duncan...

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  • Obama's Black Widow

    Thanks to Bush and Obama, the National Security Agency now knows more about you

    By Nat Hentoff

    Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security...

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  • What Obama Doesn't Know

    Much has been hidden from the new president by the Bush team

    By Nat Hentoff

    No presidential transition team in recent history has ranged as widely as Barack Obama's in its attempt to find out what minefields he may be...

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