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Bilingual Island of Learning

by Dan LaFave January 24, 2013

On one side of the room, a woman crouches on the carpet with a young girl. They play with a herd of small plastic animals. Their interaction is simple, one that most people would remember ...

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A thunderous round of applause broke out as Cecilia Tkaczyk stepped onto the Senate chamber floor yesterday afternoon (Jan. 23). She waved to the cheering people in the balcony and nodded at her colleagues, who ...

Frank Conversations

by James Yeara January 23, 2013

Set designer Ken Goldstein gives Capital Rep’s Race a stately law office lined with orderly law books to backdrop the pristine wooden conference table edged with chrome. Deborah Constantine gives Race a clean, well-lighted look, ...

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Break a Digital Sweat

by Erin Pihlaja January 17, 2013

The sound of helicopter blades thunder in your ears just before the voice of the pilot pipes into your headphones. She tries to get you to talk about your mission, and makes some vague observations ...

Every Way Is a Way

by Josh Potter January 17, 2013

It is a symbol of devotion and austerity within the Hindu tradition for monks and swamis to don the saffron robe. Some say the color was important in classical times to protect the meditating yogis ...

Getting Your Brain in Shape

by Keith Ammann January 16, 2013

When I was a kid, I played chess with my friend Carlos. And only my friend Carlos. I played white, always. He played black, always. We didn’t plan. We jabbed and feinted, like boxers. We played ...

Silencers

by Erin Pihlaja January 10, 2013

There were seven mass shootings in America last year. In July, at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., moviegoers eagerly awaited a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. About 30 minutes into the film, ...

A Blow to Women

by Erin Pihlaja January 10, 2013

Is the Violence Against Women Act getting pushed off the fiscal cliff? The act, which provides federal funding for the investigation of cases of violence against women, and the prosecution of those perpetrators, has been renewed ...

Shale Game

by Ann Morrow January 10, 2013

The dialogue is so spot-on in Promised Land—Hollywood’s dramatization of the fracking debate—that it’s no surprise that the story and first draft are by star writer Dave Eggers. And as delivered by Matt Damon as ...

Gone But Not Forgotten

by The Staff January 3, 2013

Gone but not forgotten The victims of the mass killings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., George McGovern, Norman Schwarzkopf, Arlen Specter, Charles Colson, Joe Paterno, Mike Wallace, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Dick Clark, Etta James, Whitney ...

The Year in Theater

by James Yeara January 3, 2013

Best of 2012 1. Tomorrow in the Battle Stageworks/Hudson The world-premiere production of Tomorrow in the Battle was an experience to revel in. Playwright Kieron Barry presented conflicts, crises, and climaxes for his characters that engaged both intellectually ...

The Year in Review

by The Staff January 3, 2013

Don’t mess with Sandy A tropical wave rose out of the Caribbean Sea in late October and grew to hurricane classification by the time it hit Jamaica. About a week later, the storm hit the East ...

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Fallen Flat

by Shawn Stone December 27, 2012

Oh boy oh boy, you can tell right from the opening credits that it’s a Quentin Tarantino joint. The classic 1950s-era Columbia Pictures logo! The bright red credits that look like they were lifted from ...

Local Heroes

by The Staff December 27, 2012

Citizens for St. Patrick’s It began with two teachers who wanted to have a say in their own community. Christine Bulmer, a second-generation parishioner of St. Patrick’s Church, and Eileen Anderson, a parishioner for more than ...

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Rough Mix

by Josh Potter December 27, 2012

Welcoming the Year of the Snake On Monday (Dec. 31), the Gregorian calendar is prophesied to expire, marking the end of a 365-day cycle and the beginning of an age to be known as 2013. No ...

Counting Down to Timewave Zero

by Josh Potter December 20, 2012

This is the end. That much is certain. The end of what, though, remains to be seen. Tomorrow, on Friday, Dec. 21—the winter solstice—the “long count” of the Mayan calendar is set to expire. For decades, ...

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What You’ll Need

by Erin Pihlaja December 20, 2012

If the Mayans got it right, this may be the last time you pack a bag to go anywhere. But, if tomorrow really does mean the end of the world as we know it (literally ...

The Final Standings

by Shawn Stone December 20, 2012

Losers 10. Andrew Cuomo Poor Gov. Cuomo: All the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and public posturing in anticipation of a 2016 presidential run will have gone for naught. And dude has had to put up with Dean Skelos for ...

Holiday Fashion Guide

by The Staff December 14, 2012

Micayla wears a crimson taffeta gown by Nicole Miller from Circles, and vintage rhinestone and black-glass-beaded necklace by Elissa Halloran. Micayla wears black sequined pants by Free People, a white blouse by Theory, and black-satin peep-toe ...

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Another Nine Lives

by Erin Pihlaja December 14, 2012

It happened gradually that I became the cat lady,” says Katrin Hecker. “It was never a life goal, but the cats took over.” Hecker is the founder of Animalkind, a Hudson-based nonprofit dedicated to helping ...

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The Major Lift

by David King December 13, 2012

Why are Muse still a band? They seem bored, copping the same Radiohead poses that have gotten them through what seems like a dozen or so releases. But it’s not the band’s laziness and boredom ...

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Short and Too Sweet

by James Yeara December 6, 2012

Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life is a beloved holiday classic today. The two-hour-and-10-minute black-and-white film is as sentimental as movies come (“Capra-corn”), but there’s an edge to it, as there is in ...

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