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Exclusive NYC Concert Salsa Superstar OSCAR D’LEON @ Lehman Center Saturday, 5/7
LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents El Gigante De La Salsa OSCAR D’LEÓN Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its spectacular 36th Anniversary Season with an exclusive concert of Venezuela-born Salsa Superstar OSCAR D’LEÓN, who returns toLehman Center with his Orchestra to […]
Quote of the Day: April 22, 2016
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
Word of the Day: April 22, 2016
graver Definition: (noun) A tool used by an engraver. Synonyms: pointel Usage: The jewelry designer’s studio was attached to her shop, so customers could watch her hammer metals and draw elegant designs with her graver.
Whose Birthday Is It? April 22, 2016
Henry Fielding (1707) Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his humor and satire. He settled in London in 1729 and began writing comedies, farces, and burlesques, including Tom Thumb. Two of his satires attacked the Walpole government […]
Quote of the Day: April 21, 2016
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Word of the Day: April 21, 2016
tittle Definition: (noun) A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgeon, whit Usage: Sydney Carton drank nothing but a tittle coffee.
Whose Birthday Is It? April 21, 2016
Max Weber (1864) Weber was a German sociologist and political economist whose most famous and controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, examines the relationship between Calvinist—or Puritan—morality, compulsive labor, bureaucracy, and economic success under capitalism. Weber […]
Quote of the Day: April 20, 2016
The most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe…We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy’s numbers, but still more important to know […]
Word of the Day: April 20, 2016
attenuate Definition: (adjective) Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence. Synonyms: faded, weakened Usage: She placed a record in the player, and the attenuate tones of the old recording swept through the house.
Whose Birthday Is It? April 20, 2016
Philippe Pinel (1745) After moving to Paris in 1778, Pinel, a French physician, was appointed director of the Bicêtre and Salpêtrière hospitals. His experiences there prompted him to advocate for the humane treatment of mentally ill persons—then called the insane—and […]
Pedro Rosario is the Cat’s Meow.
Not only does Pedro Rosario save animals on the ground as the owner of New Beginnings Animal Rescue but in the air as well. Check out this video from Roxanne Delgado of Superman Pedro climbing this tree to save a cat […]
Klein & Salamanca to City: No mini Rikers in Hunts Point community
Elected officials & community rallied against ‘secret’ proposal to locate new 2,000 bed jail in Bronx neighborhood BRONX, NY – State Senator Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester) and Councilman Rafael Salamanca (D-Bronx) joined community leaders and residents today to rally against […]
Quote of the Day: April 19, 2016
Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped; but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and […]
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