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‘Rest in peace, chief, we’ll take it from here’
The outpouring of condolences through social media and the community have been coming in for Alan M. Zimmermann Jr., the chief of Independence Fire Company No. 1 and the Palmyra Fire Department. Zimmermann, who was recently celebrated and recognized as outgoing fire chief, passed away on July 21 surrounded by...
Gotham signs 13-year-old MaKenna ‘Mak’ Whitham through 2028, youngest to get NWSL contract
HARRISON, N.J. — Gotham FC has signed 13-year-old McKenna “Mak” Whitham to a multi-year contract through 2028. The guaranteed deal makes the U.S. Youth National Team forward the youngest contracted player in the NWSL. Defending champion Gotham said it signed Whitham via the NWSL’s U-18 entry mechanism....
Eater Nominated for a 2024 NY Emmy
The nominations for the 2024 New York Emmy Awards were announced on Friday, and an episode of Eater’s The Experts was nominated in the Informational/Instructional — Short Form or Long Form Content category. The Experts series brings audiences behind the scenes of top restaurants across the country. The...
How NYPD K-9 teams are helping to keep the Paris Olympics safe
NEW YORK – A specialized New York City Police Department K-9 team is in Paris for the Summer Olympics to help with security.Officer Michael Finamore with K-9 Gunner and Officer Rafael Delacruz with K-9 Davie are checking out venues and routes across the City of Light."They go to work by actively seeking out sources of explosive trace," said NYPD Deputy Chief Jason Huerta, with the Counterterrorism Bureau.Huerta said their duties include sweeping sports venues, train stations, transit hubs, parade routes and routes spectators and athletes may use for travel."All in an effort to keep the summer Olympics safe," he...
Daniel Jones has up-and-down day at Giants training camp
Observations from the Giants’ training camp practice on Friday. Driving school The starting offense capped a three-play touchdown drive with a Daniel Jones shotgun quarterback draw from the 2-yard line. How did the ball get there? Giants implementing more pre-snap motion with Brian Daboll calling plays Jones hit a deep ball to Malik Nabers and a sideline pass to a twisting Jalin Hyatt. Force the issue At the end of an inconsistent performance, Jones forced one too many passes to Nabers. In a two-minute drill, Jones never looked to his left but stared down Nabers along the sideline and Dane Belton made a leaping interception. Giants’...
NY Times editorial board urges Kamala Harris to 'do better' than Biden in taking questions from reporters
The editorial board of The New York Times urged Vice President Kamala Harris to "do better" than her ex-running mate President Biden on taking questions from reporters.
Justin Timberlake’s Lawyer: He Was Not Intoxicated During Arrest
The jury in the Black Swan Murder Trial got a chance to hear Ashley Benefield's testimony. The question remains whether the jury believed her version of when she shot and killed her husband, Doug Benefield. (7/26/24) Fore more crime and trial news coverage, visit Court TV
Native modern art: From a cardboard box to the Met
An installation view of “Mary Sully: Native Modern” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, July 18, 2024. Nearly lost, Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) NEW YORK, NY.- The Dakota Sioux artist...
Helen Marden, grieving in bright colors and on her own terms
NEW YORK, NY.- The grief of losing a partner has been evoked by artists as various as Francis Bacon, with his “Black Triptychs” in the 1970s, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose billboard photograph “Untitled” (1991) lets the absence of figures in an empty bed be a reference for a giant loss.
Major retrospective exhibition brings together more than 150 works by Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett. Black Unity, 1968. Cedar. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. (Photo: Edward C. Robison III) BROOKLYN, NY.- The retrospective exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It...
Monica Bonvicini, 'Put All Heaven in a Rage' to open in September at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will present Put All Heaven in a Rage, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Monica Bonvicini, opening on Wednesday, September 4th in New York. Among the most important artists of her generation, Monica Bonvicini’s evocative and thought-provoking works explore the relationship between architecture,...
Lincoln Center's audiences deserve music worthy of them
NEW YORK, NY.- I love the classical music canon, and I hate it. To be precise, I hate the way we assume audiences will invariably choose it over what’s new and unusual. If you listen to marketing departments, there may be grudging tolerance for some fresh sounds at the start of a concert, but basically, people want the standards — more than ever, as their ticket-buying behavior over the past few years suggests they are only more enamored of chestnuts like “The Planets” and Beethoven’s Ninth.
This year's BroadwayCon raises the curtain on mental health
NEW YORK, NY.- Watching a Broadway musical can be an overwhelming experience — to say nothing of the actors performing in it. “If you die onstage or your character’s screamed at, your body believes that’s really happening to you every night,” said Hannah Cruz, who made her Broadway debut this spring in the women’s suffrage musical “Suffs.”
Koozies, key chains and T-shirts: Who's buying all that Billy Joel merch?
NEW YORK, NY.- It’s been nearly 51 years since Billy Joel recorded the song “Piano Man” — five decades of performing and merchandise for all occasions. That’s a lot of T-shirts — more than 10 million, in the estimation of Claire Mercuri, a spokesperson for Joel — and that’s just the count for licensed wear.
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