Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson said that 9/11 victims' families will be able to descend to the World Trade Center and pay their respects, even though the site is under construction. It was originally thought that last year would be the final year to allow visitations. This year, the AP reports, "families will be allowed into a newly built upper level of the memorial site"; the ramp to the "pit" was removed to make way for a foundation. Rosaleen Tallon, sister of firefighter Sean Tallon who perished in the North Tower, said, "We totally understand that there would be no way to go down ourselves. But it would be nice to do something to symbolically connect us to the site." The 2,750 victims' name will be read by volunteers and victims' relatives. more ›

Jen Nails has been teaching a class called Do It Yourself at The PIT (People's Improv Theater) since it opened its doors in 2003. In the class, she welcomes actors, comedians and anyone else willing to take to the stage by themselves and helps them develop their own personal stories into solo performance pieces. She is no stranger to the territory herself and tonight closes out the most recent run of her show about a year in the life of a 12-year-old girl called Lylice In it, Jen plays and performs original songs as the title characters, also stepping into a number of Lylice's elementary school teachers. more ›