Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn

The Imitation Game , the upcoming film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, with early Academy Award chatter, promises to make its subject, mathem...

As Boardwalk Empire rolls towards its conclusion, and wanting to add further depth and dimension before it's gone, you may want to revis...

Great jazz musician, who divides his time between NYC and South Africa, Mr. Ibrahim will be performing in NYC this month .

Now that the wheels have all turned, the ratchets clicked and the jewels spun on and on into my next decade, I see that despite the fleeting...

Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker: "It’s hard to watch the video of Steven Sotloff’s last moments and not conclude something similar: th...

Nick Hannauer writing in Politico: "No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human histor...

Writing in Time magazine, columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes: "This fist-shaking of everyone’s racial agenda distracts America from t...

What our tired nation still owes the world: Robert Kagan's recent provocative - and important- recent article in the New Republic on ...

From Sigmar Polke's massive, sprawling retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, "Alibis: 1963-  2010" Site here:  http://www...

James Fallows in The Atlantic, in attempting to assess the real effectiveness of the Iron Dome missile system, perhaps unwittingly reveals w...

From Chris Kornelis in the Village Voice: 'Robinson believed he could sell a million copies of the album, but to do it he would have to ...

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes CSN at Woodstock   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azgwfnZu7c&sns=em

"We are not embracing a politics of envy if we are reversing a politics of greed":Economist  Joseph E. Stiglitz on how politics - ...

Alan Mathison Turing ,  OBE ,  FRS  ( 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician,  logician ,  cryptanalyst , philosopher,  com...

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