Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Community Groups Schedule Saturday, Feb. 28 Protest of Cut of B-25 Bus Route, Key Link to Downtown Brooklyn

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The Brooklyn East New York Crisis Team and the East New York United Concerned Citizens in conjunction with Council members Charles Barron, L...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

'Economic Crisis End Distant': NYU Economist Nouriel Roubini Who Predicted Current Meltdown

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Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists who foretold much of the current financial turmoil, opines that the banking and credit crisis is ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Dandy Andy in Pepsi Land: The Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase

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Visiting the State University of New York at Purchase with our son, we had the opportunity to spend a little time enjoying the wonderful Neu...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Forget the Hype (& Fear): Barry O and Team Are Way Ahead of the Curve -- Bank Nationalization Even the GOP Can Love

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Remember on Election night, when after so many years of Dem defeats, we couldn't believe that we finally had an intelligent, sophisticat...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The 25 Best Blogs of 2009: Time magazine

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http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1879276_1879279_1879290,00.html Top 25 Blogs Talking Points Memo The Huffington P...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Flatbush Critters: Opossum Sighting !

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Just wanted to share some Flatbush Critter news -- My better Half saw an opossum this morning, around 7 AM, as she (my wife!) was leaving fo...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Brooklyn in Between

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Spring comes in small doses Like the twinkling of sunset on the water or the indigo in the sky at the end of night --Brooklyn Beat The Prome...

19th Century Men: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, Born February 12, 1809

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Charles Darwin: A visionary theorist who studied and advanced the unique scientific concept of evolution, that broke new ground in the study...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Economic Maelstrom: "When you are out there getting the honey..You don't go killing all the bees"

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Too dreadful to contemplate, but the question is already being asked, by Martin Wolf of Financial Times: Has the new administration's ef...
Monday, February 2, 2009

February, the Cruelest Month?: Economic Blues

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OK, the inauguration was last month. Job losses increasing. Market and home prices continue to fall/barely hanging on. The Super Bowl, reple...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Next Paradigm Shift?: Toward a New Political Economic Model

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The last paradigm shift in our political economy was one away from government and toward market driven. According to author Daniel Yergin, a...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Building the Great Society 2

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It has seemed clear, to me at least, from early on in the Bush administration, as the country began its general social gravitation toward th...
Monday, January 12, 2009

'To Repel Ghosts' ('Fantasmi da scacciare'): Jean-Michel Basquiat in Rome

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Jean-Michel Basquiat; Firenze 1985; Photo © Michael Halsband Self portrait (Plaid), 1983 Acrylic and paper on panel Thaddaeus Ropac C...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Brooklyn Ever-green

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Settling back into the New York groove can be a trying undertaking. Despite the rain and wind, I decided to get out of the office for a few ...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Roman Daze: "Oh, to Be Back in the Land of Coca-Cola"

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The Piazza Di Spagna, the Spanish Steps. December 2008 - January 2009. Featuring the "Light of Freedom" (memorializing the victims...