Word: brooklyn
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...buses have plug-in power outlets. “With wireless, traveling would be so much more efficient, knowing I’ll have a seat and can spend the 4 hour ride productively,” said Anesha P. Grant ’08, a Brooklyn native and regular Greyhound passenger. Representatives of Fung Wah declined to comment. Greyhound Lines did not return several phone calls...
...believe this measure is a necessary response to recent incidents across the state, we find the measure an inherently bad idea. To be sure, the recent rash of harassing noose imagery in New York is troubling—from the letter sent to a black high school teacher in Brooklyn, to the hanging of a noose on a black professor’s door at Teachers College at Columbia University, to its display outside a lower Manhattan post office, and throughout Long Island. Nevertheless, banning an image—however reprehensible—is a violation of free speech...
Music videos from everyone’s favorite Canadian indie supergroup used to involve drag queens, bulldozers, jerky dance moves, or David Cross cameos. Nothing so exciting drops by in this clip: Two kids (real-life couple Sam and Andrea from Brooklyn art punk band Courtier) sit on a dilapidated loveseat and gaze into each other’s eyes for a bit. She looks like she’s going to eat him; he blinks a lot. On-and-off ensemble member Neko Case perches wistfully on an antique chair and belts out to no one in particular, tapping...
...branch and the Department of Homeland Security, and more like the excellent crime thriller it might have been (and sort of is). Thankfully, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg bolster Gray’s average direction and his amateurish screenplay. Phoenix’s character, Bobby, runs a Brooklyn nightclub under the auspices of a shifty Russian family, while Wahlberg’s character, Bobby’s brother Joseph, serves as a decorated police officer and lives in the shadow of his father, the chief of police. When the Russian mob tries to use Bobby’s connections...
...Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year...