These days, classical orchestras perform Beatles covers, museums put on car shows, and authors shamelessly "novelize" movies and video games. An audience evolves and the arts must respond to its demands, or else face extinction. But is it worth it, in ...
Translation gets a bad rap. At one point or another, every reader has soured on a book in translation after some pompous polyglot declares, "Ah, but you should read the original!" No doubt, much can be lost. But a book's journey around the world also ...
The owner of three popular Italian restaurants on the Upper East Side is expanding his culinary empire. Later this month, Rome-born restaurateur Enrico Proietti, who presides over Baraonda, Per Lei, and Bella Blue, will open his fourth restaurant in ...
More people are leaving New York than any other state, new population estimates from the U.S. Census show, making it one of America's most stagnant populations. Experts blame the exodus — nearly 1.5 million people have moved out of New York since April ...
The federal government's refusal to grant an entry visa to an Islamic scholar invited to teach at the University of Notre Dame is lawful, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The judge said the scholar, Tariq Ramadan, could be barred from entering the ...
A former Tuskegee Airman who participated in 68 missions and said he was shot at in nearly every European country has landed in Manhattan to inspire high schools students in the Bronx. Dr. Roscoe Brown Jr., a World War II pilot in the first African ...
DUMBO's industrial facades and celebrated view of the Manhattan Bridge will be preserved, as the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday voted unanimously to designate the area New York's 90th historic district. In recent years, the ...
City officials are preparing to correct mistakes in a new emergency alert system, after an emergency e-mail message sent to New Yorkers reported an incorrect address for a crane collapse in front of the Goldman Sachs construction site near ground zero. ...
Thousands of disabled New Yorkers could be left stranded today if Access-A-Ride operators and a local union fail to settle a contract dispute by last night's 3 a.m. deadline. Transportation services for about 200,000 disabled New Yorkers are contracted ...
A popular Upper East Side public athletic center, Asphalt Green, is fully reopened after nine months and a $12.8 million renovation. Improvements include wireless Internet access, an upgrade of Manhattan's only Olympic-size swimming pool, state of the ...
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