http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:12 -0700 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:42:05 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Cowed?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Following the New York City election returns last night was a breathless roller coaster ride. As it turned out, it was as much about following the press coverage as it was about the mayoral candidates’ numbers. Shortly after the polls closed... Election Day neighborhoods Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:42:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Cowed?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Vote?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Do you love New York City or hate it? Do you love Michael Bloomberg or William J. Thompson Jr., or hate one or both of them? Or maybe, do you just feel cynical and disenchanted? No matter how you answered, if you live in this city, you owe it to y... Election Day neighborhoods Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:56:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Vote?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Muertos?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Day of the Dead celebrations begin in New York City today and run through Monday evening. Many local churches and community organizations sponsor events, but the biggest and most festive ones, that are free and open to the general public, take pla... Halloween Day of the Dead Latino culture holidays & celebrations Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:06:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Muertos?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Ghosts?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Built in 1832 and still filled with its original furniture, the Merchant’s House on East 4th Street is the real thing--a house haunted by the tales of those who once lived there. For more than 100 years, it was occupied by generations of New... Halloween haunted houses holidays & celebrations holildays Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:02:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Ghosts?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Parade?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Get your costume ready. It’s almost time for New York’s 35th annual Village Halloween Parade—the biggest, most extravagant Halloween celebration in the USA. The parade will wind its way up Sixth Avenue from Spring Street to 21st ... Halloween theater holidays & celebrations holidays costumes Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:57:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Parade?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Ghouls?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner The most amazing and awe-inspiring Halloween celebration in New York actually happens the night before—on Mischief Night—at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when ghosts and ghouls burst from the smoking Mouth of Hell and parade ac... Halloween haunted houses theater holidays Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:01:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Ghouls?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d16-Museo?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Rendering:El Museo del Barrio courtyard.Courtesy El Museo & Gruzen Samton.The Empire State building will shine "mango yellow" this weekend to salute the reopening of El Museo del Barrio on 5th Avenue at 104th Street. The museum, which h... art museums Latino culture neighborhoods Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:01:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d16-Museo?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d15-Fountain?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner  New Lincoln Center fountain, designed by Mark Fuller. Photo courtesy of WET“Meet me at the fountain!” people planning to meet up at Lincoln Center have said, ever since 1964, when architect Philip Johnson’s minimalist, black, ... music dance neighborhoods Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:00:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d15-Fountain?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d7-This-Monday-will-be-free-day-at-the-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner The Jolly Flatboatmen. George Caleb Bingham. 1846. Courtesy Met Museum.This Monday, October 12 (Columbus Day), the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public. It is part of the Met’s Holiday Mondays program, which invites everyone i... art museums Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d7-This-Monday-will-be-free-day-at-the-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Neighborhoods?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Great eats in "Little Mexico" (aka El Barrio). Photo by Paul Aresu, 2009.What’s your favorite New York neighborhood? If you’ve lived in the city for a while, chances are you have a list of them. But even if you’ve lived yo... books bookstores neighborhoods Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:20:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Neighborhoods?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Seliger?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Charles Seliger in his New York studio. Photo: Mark Seliger 2009Charles Seliger: June 3, 1926 - Oct. 1, 2009On Wednesday evening, Abstract Expressionist painter Charles Seliger was standing next to me at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, talking about ... art books Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:14:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Seliger?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Censored?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner "Untitled," 2009 by Nancy Grossman. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld GalleryLet us now observe Banned Books Week. As usual, the ironies abound. Recently, when the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery tried to mail out postcards for the occasion, announc... art poetry books Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:07:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Censored?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d26-Natalie-Merchant-performs-free-at-the-Poets-House-grand-opening?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Singer Natalie Merchant. Courtesy Ovation TV.Singer Natalie Merchant and more than a dozen famous poets will celebrate the grand opening of the new Poets House in Battery Park City today. Merchant will perform poetry-inspired songs. Acclaimed poets ... music poetry Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:36:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d26-Natalie-Merchant-performs-free-at-the-Poets-House-grand-opening?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d25-Kandinsky-review?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Picture with a Circle. Kandinsky. 1911. Courtesy Guggenheim MuseumIf ever paintings at an exhibition looked like jewels in a jewel box, the Kandinskys at the new Guggenheim show are the ones. Circling up the museum’s spiral ramp to view canvas... art music museums poetry Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:41:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d25-Kandinsky-review?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d18-Kandinsky?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Kandinsky's "Black Lines" (1913). Courtesy Guggenheim MuseumA gorgeous retrospective of the career of visionary Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) opens at the Guggenheim Museum today. Close to 100 of the artist’s most impo... art museums Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:50:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d18-Kandinsky?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Chamber-Music?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner   Elmira Darvarova. Photo by David FinlaysonAfter rousing performances last night by violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianist Matthew Hagle, the New York Chamber Music Festival continues at Symphony Space.Tonight, a Beethoven string trio shares ... music Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:13:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Chamber-Music?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d13-Mettawee?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner The condor from Mettawee River Theater Company's "Beyond the High Valley"Crickets chirped and a breeze rustled through the trees last night as New Yorkers, ranging in age from three to 80, settled into their seats to watch the Mettawee Riv... puppets theater Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:42:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d13-Mettawee?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d13-Discount?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Violinist Rachel Barton Pine. Photo by Andrew EcclesVirtuoso violinist Rachel Barton Pine is offering Examiner readers discount tickets for her solo New York debut on Tuesday, September 15 at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.Anyone... music Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:05:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d13-Discount?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d11-Rachel?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner Rachel Barton Pine. Photo by Andrew Eccles.When violinist Rachel Barton Pine says she loves to play all sorts of music, she’s not kidding around. Her passion is as obvious when she performs the baroque partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach as when... music Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:29:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m9d11-Rachel?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Gates?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Library of CongressIt’s about time white people—and yes, I am one of them—try to get our heads around the idea that life in America is different, really different, for people of color. When was the las... New York City politics race Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:49:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Gates?cid=exrss-NY-City-Life-Examiner