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Evan Forsch, Week of July 31, 2014

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Jobs, A to Z: My alphabet soup of a working life

July 31, 2014 1 Comment

Dear Human Resources, Your assistant mentioned you were having trouble placing me, so I’ve enclosed a revised résumé, alphabetized, mostly, for your convenience. Thanks for taking a closer look. Best, Jenny Klion I’ve been an Apprentice for the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco, but that was a long time ago. Also, a Barista at read more here »

Letters, Week of July 31, 2014

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Woo! Do the bump(s)! To The Editor: Re “New E.V. slow zone, with 20 m.p.h. limit, is fast approaching” (news article, July 24): The speed bumps will be launching platforms for skateboarders and may screw up snow removal. But over all, for an old codger like me with poor sight and hearing, the 20-mile-per-hour zone read more here »

However…Professor Irwin Corey turns 100!

July 31, 2014 No Comment

Professor Irwin Corey, “The World’s Foremost Expert,” celebrated his 100th birthday Tuesday evening at the Actors Temple, on W. 47th St. Among the more than 100 friends in attendance at the stand-up great’s b’day bash — many of them actors and comics — were Joe Franklin, who told a few jokes; Gilbert Gottfried; Randy Credico, the read more here »

Scene, Week of July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014 No Comment

Perhaps having drifted up on a “sea of love,” a piano was beached in the sand under the Brooklyn Bridge’s Manhattan side.

Evan Forsch, Week of July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014 No Comment

Hillary is “talking the talk” of a 99%-er.

To take or not to take pills, that is the question

July 24, 2014 1 Comment

BY MARIANNE GOLDSCHELDIER | My mother was a pill hound. In wartime Prague, during the Second World War, while I was growing up — a very painful time — she always had codeine at hand, presumably to handle menstrual pain. She had no idea that one of the side effects of codeine is constipation. read more here »

Letters, Week of July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014 No Comment

Plaque is poetic justice To The Editor: Re “Where poet Frank O’Hara was prolific, a new plaque” (news article, July 3): This is great. Frank O’Hara busted it open and made poetry fun. The East Village is right to claim him as somewhat of a native son. Tony Towle is widely considered to be O’Hara’s read more here »

Team reunites to capture crown that eluded them

July 17, 2014 No Comment

The final at bat in the first game of the 2010 District 23 Little League World Series qualifier saw Greenwich Village lose to Peter Stuyvesant. A feeling of disbelief hung over the kids and their coaches. Just the week before, the Village team — Andrew Ehrenberg, Eli Kimbell, Max Schneider, Jack Miller, Nick White, Julian read more here »

Lady Furies leave it all on the field in playoffs

July 17, 2014 No Comment

The L.E.S. Lady Furies’ Cinderella season ended Monday as they were knocked out of the running for the Little League World Series by the Rockville Center All-Stars. On Saturday, the age-10-and-under softball team lost badly to the Staten Island All-Stars. But they rebounded against Floral Park on Sunday, winning, 14-10, keeping hope alive, albeit briefly, read more here »