Vacca Celebrates Hispanic Heritage
NYC Council member Jimmy Vacca will be on hand to celebrate Hispanic Heritage at Throggs Neck Senior Center tomorrow.
LIU Dean - School of Visual and Performing Arts
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LIU's new Dean spoke before a packed house of talented visual arts staff and faculty members for the first time this week. Dr. Noel Zahler, a highly respected composer, researcher and administrator, who has led departments, schools of music and interdisciplinary programs at universities across the nation, started his hew job as LIU Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the C.W. Post Campus.
Death of An Icon
Apple computer founder Steve Jobs has died at 56: His peers and followers fondly remember legendary inventor.
Fellow high-tech peers and even Jobs' competitors lamented his death, hailing him as a genius and a genuine innovator. Here is Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
Headlines 10/6/11
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THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN ICON. Jobs Was Apple Visionary.
PALLIN SAYS SHE'S NOT RUNNING. GOP VP Wont Go Away.
OCCUPY WALL STREET. Protesters in Their Third Week.
BLOOMBERG FEELS THE HEAT. FDNY Discrinination.
10 YEARS LATER. Life is Bleak in Afghanistan.
CHAMBER MUSIC SCHEDULE 2011-2012
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 3 pm | $25
Home of David Lewis and Anne Ackerley
407 West 246th Street | $25
KELLY HALL-TOMPKINS, Violin
JAY LEE, Piano*
Beethoven - Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No.2 - First movement
Chopin - Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Ysaÿe - Ballade (Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, "George Enescu")
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5
Hofmann - Octet
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 3 pm
Home of Geoffrey and Sarah Gund
690 West 247th Street | $25
CHRISTINE DOOKIE, Flute*
IRINA MOROZOVA, Piano
A Concert Dedicated to Johannes Somary
Piazzolla - Tango Etude for flute
Borough President Diaz Rallies with Union Members
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Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined dozens of parents, community members and members of Local 372 to protest the impending layoffs of over 700 school aides. The rally took place at P.S./I.S. 218/Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School on Gerard Avenue. In the Bronx, 121 school aides face layoffs.
APPLAUSE Awards 2011
In celebration of new directions at the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA), and in anticipation of its 50th anniversary (2012), BCA announces the APPLAUSE Awards 2011 on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
The APPLAUSE Awards honor five dynamic Women of Bronx Arts and highlight the achievements of these phenomenal cultural leaders, and the important organizations that they serve.
There will be a silent auction featuring work by Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) winners and more. A dance party featuring DJ1in2 (NYC’s Jaime Glover) will immediately follow the dinner.
JOBS DEAD
Apple Computer's Steve Jobs is dead at 56. Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who decided to give him up for adoption.
Steve Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs' family garage. The company's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPads have dictated the evolution of modern technology.
His family is seeking privacy at their moment of grief. He will surely be missed.
Headlines 10/5/11
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FINANCIAL VOLATILITY AND MARKET GREED. Global Recession Fears.
KNOX HOME AFTER FOUR YEARS. Amid Cheers and Tears.
FINANCIAL WOES IN GREECE. Eurozone Bailout Near?
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. Primaries Months Away.
MONEY ISSUES @ NBA. Parties Walk Out.
NJ GOV Christie Says No
After weighing in on the power of his political heavy weight, New Jersey's Republican Governor says he has lost his desire to run for President this time around.
Some party leaders were pushing Chris Christie to jump into the campaign and shake up the GOP landscape after growing dissatisfied with the apparent front runners, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
The Ralph Crandon of politics, who likes to tell it like it is managed to sidetracked a race for now by plugging the plug on a 2012 White House bid in typical blunt fashion Tuesday: "Now is not my time."