Jazzmobile, Inc. Vocal Competition

Jazzmobile Inc. hosts the sixth annual
“Jazz Vocal Competition”
scheduled to take place
during the month of
July 2009
You are invited to be a part of the Jazzmobile Vocal Competition
Our talent search for “the best of the best” jazz vocalists
Jazzmobile, Inc. is pleased to announce the sixth annual “Jazzmobile Jazz Vocal Competition.” Jazz singers, who want to join [...]

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Up and Out of New York’s Projects

Up and Out of New York’s ProjectsNicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesRACE YOU Bronxdale Houses became Sonia Sotomayor’s home in 1957, a time of promise in the projects.
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and MICHAEL WILSON
WHEN Sonia Sotomayor first set foot in the Bronxdale Houses along Bruckner Boulevard in 1957, they encapsulated New York’s promise. The towers beckoned to [...]

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Stimulus Will Mean More Summer Jobs for New York Youths – NYTimes.com

Stimulus to Pay for More Summer Jobs in N.Y.
By KAREN ZRAICK
Citing the soaring unemployment rate among New York teenagers and young adults, state and city officials announced on Saturday that money from the federal stimulus program would be used to expand the number of summer jobs.
Gov. David A. Paterson said $18.5 million would be directed [...]

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An Old New York Murder Case Goes to Trial in a Courtroom 4,600 Miles Away

An Old New York Murder Case
Goes to Trial in a Courtroom
4,600 Miles Away
By KAREEM FAHIM

Twenty years late and an ocean away from where she was murdered, the case of Mary Beal is finally being heard in court.
On Thursday, witnesses sat in Brooklyn courtroom and spoke into a video camera. Their testimony landed in a courtroom [...]

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FORMER NET JAYSON WILLIAMS BLASTED BY WIFE ITANYA YOUNG WILLIAMS IN DIVORCE SUIT – New York Post

JAYSON WILLIAMS BLASTED BY WIFE IN DIVORCE SUIT
FORMER NET ACCUSED OF ABUSE, FAKING SUICIDE, MORE
By DAN MANGAN
February 13, 2009
It’s “Unhappy Valentine’s Day” for former New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams.
The 6-foot-9 ex-NBA player was slam dunked by his wife, Tanya Young Williams, tonight in a bombshell divorce suit that accuses him of physical and emotional [...]

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EUR This N That | 3 Month Suspension for Phelps – But What if He Was Black?

3 Month Suspension for Phelps – But What if He Was Black?
Posted by JB
Michael Phelps
The whole Michael Phelps disaster showing him in the news smoking a marijuana bong at a party is simply ridiculous. The opportunity he squandered is, not only one of the dumbest moves in history, but will set him in the [...]

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To Close a School – A Decision Rooted in Data, but Colored by Nuance

To Close a School: A Decision Rooted in Data, but Colored by Nuance
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
On a recent December morning, a trio of education higher-ups arrived unannounced in the principal’s office at Public School 90 in the Bronx. The school would be gradually shut down, they told the principal, Patricia West. Incredulous, Ms. West, who [...]

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Pricey stadium stations

Pricey stadium stations
Yanks, Mets get spiffy rail stops, but aren’t pitching in on rising costs
by patrick arden / metro new york
JAN 29, 2009
When the MTA agreed to spend $40 million for a station to service the new Yankee Stadium, rider advocate Gene Russianoff suggested the team pay for naming rights to the stop. CLICK HERE [...]

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Immigrant Teens Struggle With Formal Schooling

Immigrant Teens Struggle With Formal Schooling
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Fanta Konneh is the first girl in her family to go to school. Not the first to go to college, or to graduate from high school. Fanta, 18, who grew up in Guinea after her family fled Liberia, became the first to walk into a classroom of any [...]

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Bronx Zoo to take down Skyfari

Bronx Zoo to take down Skyfari

BY BOB KAPPSTATTERDAILY NEWS BRONX BUREAU CHIEF
Saturday, January 24th 2009, 4:00 AMThe Bronx Zoo has announced they plan to take down the hard-to-maintain Skyfari.
The Bronx Zoo has announced they plan to take down the hard-to-maintain Skyfari.
The Bronx Zoo’s Skyfari air tram, which stranded dozens of people for hours last year, [...]

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