| Two New York Groups Win 'Promise Neighborhood' Grants The federal government is giving planning grants to 21 community groups nationwide, in an effort to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone’s cradle-to-college approach to improving education. feeds.nytimes.com |
Goodbye, Oprah -- Hello, Silver Fox! There's going to a lot more Anderson Cooper going around next fall. Cooper, the anchor of CNN's AC360, has signed a deal to host a new one-hour daily show for daytime TV to launch in fall 2011, and he's inked an extended deal at the cable news network. feeds.nydailynews.com |
Dressing Up to Clean Up Jackson Heights Volunteers turned out in ball gowns and tuxedos for a street theater event aimed at cleaning up Jackson Heights, Queens. feeds.nytimes.com |
Big City: In ‘Mad Men,’ She Would Have Been Peggy Letty Cottin Pogrebin was an executive in the 1960s, and could have been Peggy in the popular TV show. feeds.nytimes.com |
James Cameron set to make TWO 'Avatar' sequels The Oscar-winning director has signed up to write and direct two sequels to his 2009 3D-tastic block-buster, "Avatar," it was announced Wednesday. feeds.nydailynews.com |