Directed By Greg Cicchino, Written by Sophocles Produced by Richard Mazda for The Secret Theatre Antigone, doomed daughter of ill-fated Oedipus and Jocasta, is forced to complete "the ceremony of pain and dishonor and disaster and shame" willed More...
This coming Friday, March 20, is the Vernal Equinox, the date when in this year 2009, in the Northern Hemisphere, where we live, night and day are nearly the same length and the sun crosses the celestial equator and begins moving northward. More...
Mark To Market To The Editor: Our economy's recovery seems to require the resumption of financing from the shattered or non-existent securitization (non-bank) loan market. More...
At about 3 p.m. on March 9, a thief broke into a parked car at 34th Street and 31st Avenue in Astoria and stole a cellphone and three pairs of sunglasses. More...
Congressmember Anthony Weiner's surprise announcement last week that he was calling a halt to any further campaigning for mayor this year and would decide in the near future whether he'll get in the race comes as a disappointment to many who felt h More...
Congressmember Gary Ackerman has introduced legislation to allow victims of Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme to get IRS refunds for taxes they paid on "phantom profits" or false gains from their Madoff investments. More...
Responding to increasing complaints about bedbug infestation, the City Council recently passed a bill creating a Bedbug Advisory Board, which in nine months is supposed to give recommendations to the council on how to prevent infestations or elimin More...
Assemblymember Ann Margaret Carrozza will be honored by the Queens Interagency Council on Aging (QICA) with the presentation of the Rose Kryzak Legislative Award at its 38th anniversary celebration on Thursday, March 26, at the Queens Community Hou More...
City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. joined Congressmember Anthony Weiner outside a closed Astoria restaurant to remind small business owners to take advantage of a $730 million federal aid package. More...
After almost eight years under mayoral control, just 38 percent of New Yorkers rate public education for more than one million students in kindergarten through 12th grade as excellent or good. More...
