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Tween Fight Club Could Cost LI Mom Her Kid

Tween Fight Club Could Cost LI Mom Her Kid

This has not been a good week for Long Island mother Daphne Melin. First she drives her daughter to a schoolyard brawl on Sunday and instead of getting a "mom of the year" award gets arrested for assaulting a 12-year-old girl and now? Now she may lose her kids. more ›

LI Woman Arrested For Cheering On Fight Between 12-Year-Old Girls

LI Woman Arrested For Cheering On Fight Between 12-Year-Old Girls

Playground fights are an age-old right of passage and kids have been known to crowd around a good one and root for one kid or another since the dawn of time. But unless you are Tom Hanks in Big (or, more appropriately for this story, Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30) you really do not want to go and do that as an adult. Just ask 32-year-old Long Island woman Daphne Melin, who is accused of not only cheering on some fighting tweens but also of assaulting another young girl who was watching the fight. And of course the fight was sort of publicized on Facebook. more ›

Your Facebook Friends Probably Don't "Like" You

Your Facebook Friends Probably Don't "Like" You

Facebook friend additions must be navigated very carefully, and once you've gotten past who you do and don't want spying on your online life, you then have to worry about not annoying those people... because: you will! A new study has arrived, tackling how women really feel about their Facebook friends, and of the 400 women surveyed, 83% are simply annoyed. On top of that: more ›

Pencil This In

ART: On the Couch: Cartoons From the New Yorker is a collection of cartoons from the magazine which Bob Mankoff (the cartoon editor) says focuses on “the shrink and the shrunk, the practitioner and the practiced upon.” So we're sure you'll all be able to relate, somehow. more ›

Elephants' Last Stand in the Bronx

Elephants' Last Stand in the Bronx

company) and only one elephant in the exhibit is "inhumane." The article goes onto to detail other American zoos that have ended its elephants exhibits (see Chicago and San Francisco, DC) and how elephants can be exclusive:

The Bronx Zoo, [Steven Sanderson, president and chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Society] said, has a two-acre corral in which the elephants can move about, and its zookeepers monitor the stumpy feet of its elephants daily, but he would prefer to give them more company. Elephants may show their discomfort with a new arrival by the equivalent of a hunger strike. more ›

MTV Movie Awards

MTV Movie Awards

Best Action Sequence: In what seems like audiences expressing a subtle distaste for the west coast, The Day After Tomorrow’s "Destruction of Los Angeles" won, beating Spiderman's New York "Subway Battle." more ›

Jesus at the Multiplex

Jesus at the Multiplex

The Passion of the Christ has been out for a while now and most of the people I know have seen it. I've been reluctant to see what I feel will be a virulently anti-Semitic film and have no interest in giving Mel Gibson my money. For the sake of discussing it with my , but in the interest of keeping my money from a man I think is an anti-Semite, can I sneak into a screening of "The Passion"? more ›

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