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Sparrows' Nest Disappears From Home In Traffic Light

On Thursday, Dan Callister, a freelance photojournalist, took a photo of a sparrows' nest tucked inside a traffic light on 72nd Street just past Fifth Avenue in Central Park. On Friday he got a call from the New York Post, he told Runnin' Scared this morning, when he went to visit the light again, t ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 28-April 3, 2012

Sports Vs. Sounds: The Staff Of The Classical Runs Down The Best Post-Punk Sports Songs

​During my discussion with the fellows behind The Classical, the forthcoming sports site named after the Mark E. Smith composition that reportedly cost the band a recording deal with Motown thanks to the slur about 35 seconds in, I asked why there aren't many punk or post-punk songs about spor ... More >>

Clip Job: When a Newspaper Dies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 28 Mr. Hearst's Flagship Sank Like the Maine By Stan Fischler The Journal-American died with its boots on last Sunday morning at the age of 71. When the boots were removed there was a stench. "Nat Hento ... More >>

Clip Job: The Death of the Daily Newspaper

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 2, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 11Postscript to '30'By Donald PanethA newspaper is a lively, amicable place of employment, and the city room with its atmospheres of excitement, legitimate urgency, and yet easygoing traditions, the center of its eff ... More >>

Runnin' Scared's DeSio to Work for New Bronx Beep

John DeSio -- veteran reporter for many local pubs including New York Press, the New York Sun, and the Voice, and frequent contributor to Runnin' Scared -- has slipped the surly bonds of journalism and will serve new Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. as communications director. He is curren ... More >>

Mayor Gives Donors Helpful To-Do List

None of this backroom deal stuff for Mayor Bloomberg: when he wants something from "the political donor community," he gives them a pre-printed list on a little card. He first came up with the idea for the "pocket reminder" of mayoral priorities in 2006; the New York Sun found it "nifty." Bloomberg ... More >>

Cuomo sees light, follows profit

Daily Flog: Holy hell on Wall Street; crap-out on Capitol Hill

Ray-Gun Kelly

Stopping-and-frisking (and now tasering) his way to becoming New York's next mayor?

The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda

President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple

Mayor Mike should get more heat for teaching kids to fear the police

The Sun Never Sets on Conrad Black

Colonialism Revisited on Greenwich Avenue

'Sun' Gaslights Its Readers

Foie Gras Flap: Gerson's team fights blogland

Spying on Big Brother

Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

Giuliani Toys with Presidency ... Again

A Marriage Made in Hell

Iranians and Iraqis work together to advance an evil cause

George Bush: Recidivist

A judge who came out of the civil rights movement teaches Bush the Constitution.

The Power and the Beauty

Dancing humanity in a fine new space

Bush: Hands Possibly as Dirty as Scooter Libby's

Flashback: Bush Impeachment Not Out of the Question

Idiot Wind

A pair of predictable and bellicose iconophobes

The Cartoons Conspiracy

The story behind the story of the furor over the Muhammad cartoons

Hate 2006? Relive 2005!

Testing Bloomberg and Klein

Test scores rising, but what of the different black and white diplomas and other lost kids?

Letters

Columbia Whitewashes Itself

A committee of insiders, some with conflicts of interest, clears the university

Report From the Upper West Bank

How Columbia University became the latest mideast battleground

A Free-Speech War

Columbia critic of Israel banned from a program for NYC teachers by Joel Klein

Columbia Still Unbecoming

President Lee Bollinger continues to compromise his beleaguered administration

Columbia Implodes!

Proceedings will not be tape-recorded, and the report will not be for the public

Telling it like it is

There Is More To Be Explored In Columbia University's Middle East Studies Than Israel

Whose Academic Freedom?

Do Columbia professors abuse free inquiry when they intimidate disagreeing students?

The Pentagon and Israel

Cirque du Sashay

Weimar cabaret meets sapphic slumber party via Wau Waus

U.N. Disgraces Itself

'Never again,' said secretary general Kofi Annan after Rwanda. Corpses are back.

Bloomberg's Accountability?

Eva Moskowitz's prescription: giving kids a fighting chance well before the third grade

High-Stakes Tests

Left behind due to the school system's failures, third-graders learn they're dumb

The Puppet Chancellor

Joel Klein claimed that the axed 'social promotion' dissenters resigned. This was a lie.

Aeschylus kills the king; inertia kills Aquila's production

First Amendment Treats for the Rich

The Media Blew This One Big-Time

Testing to Create Dropouts?

Playing the Numbers Game for Kids' Futures

Hospital Holiday

Study Finds Poor Oversight of a Billion Health Care Dollars

Why I Didn't March This Time

Their Tongues Were Cut Out for Slandering Hussein

Ashcroft Out of Control

Ominous Sequel to USA Patriot Act

The High-Stakes Testing Trap

Rising Standards, Rising Dropouts

Who's an Anti-Semite?

Hating Not Just Israel, but Jews

'Sun' Rise, 'Sun' Set

Conservative Paper Sings to the Masses

Device Squads

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