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Friday, June 27th, 2008

The New York City Department of Health announced an initiative to administer HIV tests to the estimated 250,000 untested 18- to 64-year-olds in The Bronx over the next three years.

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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This morning, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson opened the spigot on his public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.” The artist, in association with the Public Art Fund, erected four 90- to 120-foot-tall waterfalls in the New York Harbor, situated in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Governor’s Island.

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The walrus whose self-gratification rituals made him the New York Aquarium’s most famous resident passed away earlier this week. Read more about Ayveq and his history here…

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

What does a life-size paper doll of Barack Obama look like? You can see for yourself at the “Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election” exhibit that opens today (June 23) at the Museum of the City of New York.

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Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The talk in art circles may be about China these days, but the northern European scene isn’t doing too bad for itself either. Just this summer in New York, there’s “From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art” at Scandinavia House, “Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland” at P.S. 1, and of course, Denmark’s Olafur Eliasson is [...]

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Monday, June 23rd, 2008

On June 26, the Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Starting with the Universe” opens. See clips and read more about this engineering visionary.

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

Forest fires are a scourge on human settlement, but essential to the vitality of many natural regions around the world. One of these is particularly close to the NYC area, the Pine Barrens, a collection of swamp and scrublands scattered across New Jersey. See scientists talk about the particular conditions in this video:

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

In music performance today, one of the hottest presenters around is Wordless Music. If you’re a New Yorker, they seem to be suddenly everywhere, and their concerts have been attracting the classical music demographic holy grail: twenty-something hipsters.

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Every summer, New Jersey faces severe blood shortages. This year is no exception, and Health officials at the State government are encouraging workplace donations during the next month.

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

This weekend, the Olympic Torch will pass through Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The torch arrives just three months after 4,000 anti-government protesters were rounded up in the capital.

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