That group of Columbia University students staging a hunger strike is at least a little victorious, if starving, today. Last night, the university agreed to a number of demands relating to the students' concerns that not enough was being down to encourage ethnic studies and understanding other cultures (especially in the wake of recent hate crimes). From the Columbia Spectator:The University has committed to pay for the expansion of the Office of Multicultural Affairs... more ›

EVENT: All week long Lower Manhattan has become a stage. Today, "watching from behind a window overlooking the site, viewers observe Bill Shannon and crew engage with the public space and pedestrian traffic in their freestyle performance that taps into the hip-hop/skateboard tradition of street improvisation. The distance between audience and performers is mitigated by holographic screens and live audio and video mixing by special guests." DJ Excess will be on hand for some live audio mixing. More info here. more ›

August 19: 8th Annual Blues & BBQ more ›

Join Saxelby Cheesemongers for a day trip to the Valley Shepherd Creamery in New Jersey to see a sheep dairy in action. Learn about the cheesemaking process from start to finish and end the day with a picnic on the farm. 11 am to 7 pm. Tickets are $75 and are available online. more ›

March 10: Cantina-Style: One Pot Meals Cooking Demonstration and Luncheon more ›

Tens of thousands marched, protested, or formed a human chain during yesterday's "A Day Without An Immigrant" rallies. However, the NY marches paled in comparison to the ones in Los Angeles (an estimated 800,000) and Chicago (400,000). One immigrant who took yesterday off lost her job at a midtown deli and was profiled mentioned in both the NY Times and NY Post: Sylvia Garcia's boss (and a Korean immigrant) Patrick Lee said ten employees asked for Monday off, "It was irresponsible. You don't come to me at 5 on Friday and say you're not showing up on Monday. If they had given notice, it would have been different." (The Post says he fired six workers, as four others came back to work.) more ›

Yesterday we witnessed a friend taking photos of things he had written "Scene From My Life, Brooklyn, NY" on. Napkins, menus...things around a bar in Red Hook. It was for a website of the same name, SceneFromMyLife.com. An amazing idea that has people from all over the world photographically document one week of their life. more ›

Lisa Whiteman, Photographer more ›

Enticed by the ethereal Yoshio Taniguchi redesign and free admission, New Yorkers waited hours before the MoMA officially reopened, rock concert style, to be among the first to dance around one of the most comprehensive collections of modern art around. An estimated 15,000 visitors passed through the doors, and Gothamist is enjoying the local papers' coverage, from rapturous glee to architectural criticism (it's like "white bread and mayonaise"), from bickering with guards to gripes about the cost ($20 is "two days worth of food"). more ›

The photographs Jake took for A Day in the Life (click on "Archives") plus many others that cover New York at night are compiled at the A Night in the Life gallery on Bluejake. This photograph was taken from under the Manhattan Bridge. more ›

This week, Jake is taking pictures for our favorite collaborative fotolog, A Day in the Life (each week, a new photographer from all over the world will post a new picture each day, Monday-Friday). His spin is photographs, including this one (above). more ›

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Gothamist's good friend, Jon, who runs photo blog A Day In the Life, has moved his DJ gig, Painting and Kissing. P&K is now at Patio Lounge on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, and the first night is tomorrow at 10PM. Show up for some hot indie, britpop and beats.
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Tonight at Smithfield, Jon and Mario are resuming One Small Step, their monthly DJ gig. As Jon puts it, it's like "Pulp meets Modest Mouse meets Nightmares on Wax." Or from their e-mail: "It's on...10pm-2am...indie, britpop, beats, sexuality and mangina all night long." And that's right up Gothamist's alley. Excellent. more ›

Check it out: An Anger Management building poster in this week's San Francisco edition of A Day In The Life, by photographer Rob Sandusky. Here's the poster on the Upper West Side that Gothamist was taken/alarmed by. more ›

Jake shot some pictures for A Day In The Life Brooklyn. More at Bluejake. more ›

On a Bowling for Columbine-esque tanget, this shows how messed up gun "control" in this country is. This is what Loren Spector, this week's A Day in the Life photographer and L.A. resident, said about an incident with a rifle: more ›

Johnny Cash 'Hurt' Video
...It is the most beautiful and riveting video I've seen in a long time, because of how the images and music work together and how Johnny Cash, icon, haunts the video... more ›

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King Louis is taking pictures for A Day in the Life more ›