Robert Frost (1874) Perhaps the most popular and beloved of 20th-century American poets, Frost wrote of thecharacter, people, and landscape of NewEngland. Rooted in the New Englandlandscape, yet deeply symbolic, his work isconcerned with human tragedies and fears, thecomplexities of […]
DC 9 at the Bronx Museum From March 21st to March 25th, forty painters from District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (DC 9) worked refinishing the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ (BMA) first floor galleries. Forty […]
SAT, MARCH 26 FAMILY ART PROJECT: TREE-RING MANDALAS As trees grow, they produce a new ring of visible growth each year, creating a history of their life span in an emanating pattern, like a mandala. Count the years of your […]
Twenty-One NYC Health + Hospitals Patient Care Locations Designated “Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality” Launches “WE ARE AN ALLY” LGBTQ awareness campaign (New York, NY – March 24, 2016) Dr. Ram Raju, President and CEO of NYC […]
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
bucolic Definition: (adjective) Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. Synonyms: rustic, arcadian, pastoral Usage: The illustrations in the book depicted pleasant, bucolic scenes with farmers happily toiling in the fields.
Béla Bartók (1881) Bartók was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, and collector of folk music. In 1904, having discovered that the folk-music repertory generally accepted as Hungarian was in fact largely urban Roma—Gypsy—music, he set about researching Hungarian folk music. […]
EASTER SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION WITH GOVERNOR CUOMO Governor Andrew M. Cuomo invites New Yorkers to an Open House at the Executive Mansion on Sunday, March 27, 2016 to celebrate Easter Sunday. The Open House will be […]
RUBBED OUT Friday, March 25 — The fact that pencils have erasers is supposed to indicate that no one is perfect. But it’s doubtful that people were perfect before this month in 1858. That’s when Hyman Lipman was granted a […]
PUBLIC HOUSING CHAIR RITCHIE TORRES ENDORSES ESPAILLAT FOR CONGRESS Four NYCHA Tenant Association Presidents Endorse Espaillat (New York, NY ) Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing, four NYCHA tenant association presidents and scores of NYCHA residents gathered on the steps of […]
On Wednesday former Deputy Mayor and Administration for Children’s Services, Department of Investigation and FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta died at age 83. On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered that all flags shall be flown at half-staff on all City […]
MMA finally comes to New York: It could benefit Boxing By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor One component of Mixed Martial Arts, (MMA) is brutality with severity of injury with the participants in a cage. The pro boxing community has […]
How Will Barton went from being a trade afterthought to one of the NBA’s most terrifying threats off the bench By Steven Simineri The first ten picks of the 2012 NBA Draft produced some of the brightest young players: Anthony […]
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