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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...
How the Harlem-based "Ready, Willing and Able" program is changing lives
NEW YORK - The Harlem-based program the Doe Fund held a graduation ceremony this week for nearly 100 men who have overcome a variety of challenges through the "Ready, Willing and Able" program.The men at the Doe Fund are all formerly incarcerated, unhoused or substance dependent. Those ready, willing and able to step into a new chapter are identified through individual conversations with case managers in the city's Department of Homeless Services.After about a year of living together, earning stipends and developing skills, Men In Blue become custodians, cooks, construction crews and more."Ready, Willing and Able" offers participants an average...
Harlem-based Doe Fund holds graduation ceremony
Harlem-based program the Doe Fund held a graduation ceremony this week for nearly 100 men who have overcome a variety of challenges. As CBS New York's Jessi Mitchell shows us, they're ready, willing and able to start a new chapter in their lives.
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.”
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,...
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...
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.
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.
Who Wore it Best? Knicks #30
We still have a way to go until the completion of the “Who Wore it Best” series, but for all intents and purposes, WWIB #30 will most likely serve as the last great debate between two players. In the last segment of WWIB, Mitchell Robinson easily took the...
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.
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