Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

According to the Wall Street Journal, this most iconic of symbols -- and currencies -- is near the end of its reign as the world's prima...

coat of the agunah by andi aronovitz At  the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textil...

With the budget crisis across the country serving as the tire iron with which many state and local governments are attempting to deliver the...

Jason Andrew + Norte Maar bring back the late night with the fifth installment of BEAT NITE: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late . What has ...

Jerry Brown drops California State minimum wage lawsuit here Wisconsin lawmakers boycott vote that would strip State employees of collecti...

David Brooks' column yesterday discusses "Tyler Cowen’s e-book, “The Great Stagnation,” has become the most debated nonfiction book...

Apparently the skateboarder, grafitti-scrawler, druggie and alleged murderer rampager, Maksim Gelman, had quite a weekend for himself.  DITH...

Before the weekend, here in the American grind, where the shards of empire and dreams tinkle to the ground like shattered crystalline snowfl...

Although the military is in the mix (at least hopefully only) until elections are held, the fact that the Egyptian people have been able to...

Al Jazeera-English live stream here  . Al Jazeera is translated as "the Island" (aka, "The Arabian Peninsula." More on A...

Celebrating the 183rd anniversary of the birth of the author Jules Verne on February 8, Google has posted a wonderful, interactive logo tha...

A very nice article by Richard S. Chang, that is kind of a variation on an old Cowboy theme of a Man and His Horse. Massimiliano Nanni, one ...

A few months back I wrote about missing a Gary Shteyngart reading which morphed into a discussion of   e-books, author readings and book si...

AccuWeather.Com reports that "This winter is on track to become the coldest for the nation as a whole since the 1980s or possibly even ...