Recession ended in 2009? Tell it to the unemployed
It's official: the Great Recession that started in late 2007 is over, according to the eggheads who crunch numbers at the National Bureau Of Economic Research. feeds.nydailynews.com |
Local Blogging, Both Skeptical and Elegiac
In New York Online, the Atlantic Yards Report blogger is shut out of a news conference, and a West Village shop that might have interested Jane Jacobs is situated in the house where she wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." feeds.nytimes.com |
Diane Lane races to 'Secretariat's' rescue
As a kind of Son of "Seabiscuit," Randall Wallace's "Secretariat" knows which beats to hit: come-from-behind winner, historical setting, colorful characters check, check, check. Sounds potentially yawn-inducing, and yet this slightly glazed drama is aiming for family audiences, and that ought to h feeds.nydailynews.com |
David Hyde Pierce is beauty in 'Bete's' beast
High and low art collide deliriously in "La Bete," David Hirson's quirky comedy set in 17th-century France and spoken in verse. Back on Broadway 19 years after its first famously ephemeral run (just 25 performances), it raises some provocative and timeless questions about what art is and who gets to decide that. feeds.nydailynews.com |
In Senate Debate, Jabs Sometimes Get Personal
Senator Charles E. Schumer and his Republican rival, Jay Townsend, sparred over health care, the economy and Mr. Schumer’s use of profanity on an airplane. feeds.nytimes.com |