Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Young Israel Of Pelham Parkway: Please join us for our next Community Oneg Shabbat dinner at the Young Israel Of Pelham Parkway Jewish Center, 900 Pelham Parkway South Bx, NY 10461 to be held on Friday, February 23rd, starting at […]

Begrime Definition: (verb) Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. Synonyms: Bemire, Colly, Dirty, Soil Usage: Mother warned me not to begrime my clothes while playing outside.

Helen Gurley Brown (1922) Propelled to fame by her 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, Brown became editor-in-chief of the struggling Cosmopolitan magazine. By directing the magazine toward single, young career women and by being an outspoken advocate of […]

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SOH DAIKO Saturday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College Mainstage Theater 31-10 Thomson Avenue | Queens Soh Daiko shatters the boundaries of traditional taiko drumming. This New York–based Japanese drumming collective’s […]

Verdant Definition: (adjective) Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. Synonyms: Green, Lush Usage: Habituated to arid landscapes, the desert dwellers were shocked by their first glimpes of the verdant pastures.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877) As a Swiss explorer traveling in North Africa, Eberhardt often dressed as a man to move more freely through Arab society. Intensely independent, she took the side of Algerians fighting against colonial French rule. She converted to […]

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Chairman Crowley Statement on the Lunar New Year (Queens, N.Y.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) issued the following statement on the Lunar New Year: “Gung Hay Fat Choy to all Asian American and Pacific Islander families in […]