Update: Oreo, Dog Thrown Off Building, Was Euthanized
Access-A-Ride Renders Bike Lane Inaccessible
The UWS Gets Its Very Own Apple Store
Emily and Sarah Kunstler, Filmmakers
People Wait For Tomorrow's UWS Apple Store Opening
Photograph by jeanettics on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: Shots fired at the police at E 125 St & 1st Ave in Manhattan, a pursuit at Richmond Ave & Platinum Ave on Staten Island, and a large crowd at Ave U & E 55 St in Brooklyn.
- In today's shortened day of trading, the stock market was up: The Dow gained over 100 points and the S&P 500 had its best week of advances in 34 years.
- Activists are protesting Rent-a-Center's expensive fees for renting new appliances, claiming the company takes advantage of inner-city residents.
- Ashley Dupre got a manager for her music career; Chris Lighty has "handled 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliott."
- A new book about Rupert Murdoch claims that the media mogul really hates Bill O'Reilly.
- A NY Times feature on a new Israeli movie: "The film, 'The Secrets,... treads some touchy and sometimes uncharted territory for the ultra-Orthodox: women’s rights, lesbian love and kabbalah."
- A Connecticut school board is instituting tougher policies to deal with bullies, including, per the AP, "A student can be labeled a bully for as few as two incidents and these need not be against the same victim."
- And over 150 people have been killed in Mumbai, India so far. Fighting continues at one hotel.
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That kid is way too big for a stroller.
"The film, 'The Secrets,... treads some touchy and sometimes uncharted territory for the ultra-Orthodox: women’s rights, lesbian love and kabbalah."
Does that mean Madonna directed this movie before her divorce?
The Rent-A-Center customers are the same as many of the sub-prime mortgage customers. They have been conned, or convinced themselves, into thinking that they can afford the payments.