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...kids. Without warning, two men with an AK-47 and a handgun walked into the gym, strode up to Caveman and shot and killed him. They fired at least 18 times, blowing off half his face and pockmarking the floor tiles underneath his body. Three girls were injured by stray bullets. Then the men walked out. Police said the attack was probably payback for the murder of another high school student the week before...
...those songs, and the bliss they induce, you must stray off Broadway. Walk a half block down 55th Street to the invaluable City Centers Encores! series, which last night premiered its concert version of the Gershwins' 1931 hit Of Thee I Sing. Or go further northeast to one of the city's magnificent cultural resources, the 92nd Street Y, which last weekend presented "Hooray for Hollywood: Johnny Mercer at the Movies." Those are the places I was this week, in heaven. Read on, and sing along...
...from New Orleans have savored that Proust-bites-into-the-madeleine moment when a stray taste, sound, smell or sight brings remembrances of things past. It happens whenever I hear the badly rhymed but beautifully mournful--now even more so--first few bars of "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" It can even happen with a single chord. A friend gave me a CD of a local band called Jonas Rising, and at the sound of the very first Neville Brothers--inspired piano chord, I was back inside Tipitina's, where Napoleon Avenue meets the Mississippi...
...Armed with new powers created by Congress, Negroponte was supposed to make the hidebound agencies work together and share information, something they had largely failed to do before 9/11. Goss's departure was, above all, a signal that Negroponte was finally exercising his powers and trying to slip the stray agencies into harness...
...vision of America’s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife’s demands: “Kill every dog, kill every cat…kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish...