In case you didn’t know, April is National Poetry Month. So it makes sense that the Library of America, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to printing authoritative editions of America’s most significant writings, would bring out an anthology of American religious poetry. Read a review of the volume.
Comic Con kicks off this Friday at the Javits Center. If you’re disappointed that Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/writer Art Spiegelman isn’t scheduled to appear, head over to NEW YORK VOICES online and read an interview with the New York-based artist about the ability of comics to tackle serious and tragic subject matter.
Pope Benedict XVI visited the White House yesterday, welcomed by President and Mrs. Bush, after apologizing for child abuse scandals in the U.S. Catholic Church in recent years. A NewsHour reporter following the story discusses the pope’s six-day, two-city visit.
Isolated for 80 million years, the island of Madagascar is home to thousands of animal and plant species that exist nowhere else on Earth. However, decades of mining and slash-and-burn agriculture threaten to wipe out the island’s unique wildlife.
But now an international team of researchers has collected data with which they can create a blueprint [...]
Watch this narrated slideshow as carpenter–and Catholic deacon–Dave Cahoon constructs the altar furniture for Thursday’s Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium.
Harlem is the capital of black American culture and 125th Street is its Main Street. But this historic corridor may be in for big changes: the City Council is considering a rezoning plan that would bring new office space, housing, and arts organizations to Harlem, while displacing many existing retail stores.
Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama went head to head last night in what could be their last debate before the decisive Presidential primary in Pennsylvania. Follow the NewsHour as they travel to Pennsylvania ahead of the state’s April 22 primary to explore voter viewpoints on the election.
Parents have a new reason to plant their kids on a piano bench after school. A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School indicates that children who diligently practice music can strengthen connections between the two hemispheres of their brains.
Why is zoning necessary? When did it begin? How do you unravel a zoning text? Doris Diether, a long time community activist and zoning expert, demystifies New York zoning in a lecture that considers New York City zoning, from pre-1916 to today. Ms. Diether covers different types of districts and what they permit, different types [...]
A federal jury in Newark finds former Newark Mayor Sharpe James guilty of corruption; his former girlfriend is also convicted on the charges, which stemmed from the sale of city land at cut rate prices.
