There's no doubt that Adolfo Carrión loves City Island, since it's the place where he has lived for years and still calls home. And there's also no doubt he has had a significant political career thus far. While he was walking his dog in the neighborhood, Carrión briefly stopped to tell City Island Images that he is about to show NYC voters how much he loves New York.
Justice and Journalism. Application due Feb. 22. With the immigration bill pending there's no better time to study this landscape. http://justicejournalism.org/news/ijj-fellowship-focus/
Journalists and journalism show up in movies. Here are some films you might enjoy.
The latest newspaper movie is “State of Play,” released April 17, 2009. It is a political thriller in which a reporter (Russell Crowe) untangles the death of a the mistress of a congressman (Ben Affleck).
The movie is based on a six-part British television serial by the same name. For the film, the story has been moved to Washington. D.C.
The film also features Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren and Jeff Daniels. 127 minutes
More newspaper movies
This Week in History, Feb 10 - Feb 16
Feb 10, 1996
Kasparov loses chess game to computer. After three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet.
Feb 11, 1990
There's no denying The Beatles have captured the curiosity of multiple generations worldwide, but have you ever considered how many songs they wrote and how many hits the group gave away to other to bands? The fab four wrote for Peter and Gordon, Herman's Hermits and The Rolling Stones.
On this 50th anniversary of The Beatles, YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! Deconstructing The Early Beatles at the renovated Picture House in Pelham, Beatles expert Scott Freiman offered another of his Beatles "deconstructions", tracing the birth of the Beatles from Liverpool to Hamburg.
Meditation can wipe away the day's stress, bringing with it inner peace. See how you can easily learn to practice meditation whenever you need it most.
If stress has you anxious, tense and worried, consider trying meditation. Spending even a few minutes in meditation can restore your calm and inner peace.
A total of 1,104 people died in Mexico last month for offenses connected with the actions of organized crime, according to a joint statement from several government agencies.
EFE News Agency reports that this number represents a decrease of 35 deaths (3.07%) from the previous month's level, so says documents released by the Presidency, the Ministries of Interior, Defense and Navy, the Attorney General and the Federal Police.
A winter blizzard packing hurricane-force winds pummeled the northeast, including City Island on Saturday. The NE storm left at least 4 dead and around 600,000 customers without power and caused the disruption of thousands scheduled flights.
Blizzard warnings were in effect for the northeastern coast, including the New York City and the entire metropolitan area, the National Weather Service said.
One billion people worldwide are preparing to celebrate the year of the SNAKE.
On February 10, 2013 the Asian Lunar New Year will be celebrated by many Asian countries, including China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Korea. The Lunar New Year is represented by a cycle of 12 years, each year denoted by a different animal zodiac.
For Chinese, which is the largest Asian population that celebrates this holiday in North America, the Lunar New Year is also known as the Spring Festival, and it would signal to farmers in China that they must begin preparation for the sowing of their fields.
30 inches of snow had reportedly fallen on central Connecticut by early this morning and areas of southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire had an accumulation of at least 2 feet or more of snow.
Airlines cancelled more than 5,300 flights so far and New York City's three major airports as well as Boston's Logan Airport closed down.