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Date: Tuesday, December 8th
Time: 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Pop Burger (14 E 58th St)
Cost: 88¢
Our friends at Ocho Loco are helping the upper east side save a few bucks on lunch (or early dinner) today by teaming up with Pop Burger to bring you two burgers for less than a $1! Just click here to get yourself the coupon and enjoy a delicious burgerific time.
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Whether the lashed back of an enslaved person, the charred remains of a lynching victim or a terrified marcher fleeing a fire hose, shocking images of degradation seem to dominate the visual history of the African-American experience. Amid so much hardship, one might wonder what, if anything, to say about the nature of black beauty in photography. Deborah Willis, head of New York University’s photography and imaging department, spent a decade exploring the question. In POSING BEAUTY: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present (Norton, $49.95), Willis makes a monumental contribution to contemporary American culture by presenting a definitive history of black beauty. |
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IPODMEISTER, on 41st Avenue in Long Island City, will bring a smile (and an iPod or other electronic goody) to anyone hoping to liquidate a CD collection. The company was started by Kris Schrey, who said that when he tried to sell off his CDs a few years back he was humiliated by snarky music shop employees who ridiculed his musical taste and then lowballed him. Learning of the demand overseas for CDs and DVDs, Mr. Schrey started an online business through which a customer could mail in a CD library and receive an iPod, iPhone or other device based on the size of the collection. (An iPod can be had for 200 discs; more ground rules are at ipodmeister.com.) Now customers can bring in their collections in person — no ridiculing, Mr. Schrey promises. “The pop goes to the Caribbean, the rock goes to Eastern Europe, and the good classical and jazz goes to Korea and Taiwan.” |
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Those words resonated with me recently while contemplating the impact of the Obama presidency on blacks in America. So far, it’s been mixed. Blacks are living a tale of two Americas — one of the ascension of the first black president with the cultural capital that accrues; the other of a collapsing quality of life and amplified racial tensions, while supporting a president who is loath to even acknowledge their pain, let alone commiserate in it. Last year, blacks dared to dream anew, envisioning a future in which Obama’s election would be the catalyst for an era of prosperity and more racial harmony. In many ways, they’ve gotten worse. The recession, for one, has dealt a particularly punishing and uneven hand to blacks.
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Events
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL Through Dec. 15, with screenings of more than 100 films from 46 countries and special events at several locations, including Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, at Second Street, East Village; Riverside Church, Riverside Drive at 122nd Street, Morningside Heights; Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street; and Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, Morningside Heights. Screenings, ticket prices and other information: nyadff.org.
HOLIDAY SINGING IN HARLEM As part of Target’s Free Sundays, the Studio Museum in Harlem hosts community singing at 2:45 p.m. in the museum atrium, featuring the Harlem Opera Theater and other classical artists; 144 West 125th Street , (212) 864-4500, studiomuseum.org; free.
SHOP ’N MINGLE Saturday, 1 to 7 p.m., designer showcases on women’s and men’s wear. Includes rotating D.J. sets, an open bar, dessert tastings from local pastry chefs and free barber services and makeovers. National Black Theater, 2031 Fifth Avenue, at 125th Street, Harlem , shopnmingle.com; free, but reservations are required: going.com/shopnmingle09.
Walking Tour
HARLEM GANGSTER TOUR, Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., features the stories and legends of Harlem’s underworld; led by George Lee Miles. Meeting on the northeast corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and 116th Street; (212) 862-9561; $25.
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Smokers Inhale Germs from Cigarettes
Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:36 AM
Cigarettes pose a danger not only to your future health, as a potential cause of heart attacks and lung cancer, but also your immediate health, as germ sources, according to an international study.
Cigarettes literally crawl with bacteria, and smokers inhale germs with each cigarette, including germs known to cause respiratory disease, according to the study by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.
The germs could even infect others via secondhand smoke.
"Cigarettes themselves could be the direct source of exposure to a wide array of potentially pathogenic microbes among smokers and other people exposed to secondhand smoke," the researchers said.
Still, the researchers cautioned that the public health implications are unclear, and they urged further research.
"We were quite surprised to identify such a wide variety of human bacterial pathogens in these products," said Amy Sapkota, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland's School of Public Health.
The creation of artificial meat makes for an interesting dilemma for vegetarians. Is this “meat” still meat? |
The school, Kappa II, a middle school on East 128th Street in Manhattan with 200 students, was opened in 2004 and is slated for closing by reducing one grade a year until 2012 Also in Manhattan, the 558-student Academy of Environmental Science Secondary High School, which opened in 1997 on East 100th Street, is expected to close. The middle school grades at the Frederick Douglass Academy III, a secondary school on Third Avenue in the Bronx with 517 students, are also a target for closing. Among the four schools whose closing was announced Wednesday is the W.H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn, |
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