Imagine a world where underground parks are the norm. That concept has become a real possibility thanks to James Ramsey. He's the creator of the Lowline, a project that, if all goes well, will turn an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side into a living, breathing, underground park by 20...

In honor of Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s 50th birthday last April, I was thrilled to arrange a surprise appearance of our dear friend Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue. I hope that this rendition of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young reignites your youthful sparks of curiosity and joy.
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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic ca...

THIS IMPORTANT SPEECH BY DR. TALYA ZEMACH-BERSIN, A YALE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, WAS DELIVERED BY RICK HARING, A PARENT IN THE CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY DISTRIC IN PENNSYLVANIA: CENTRAL BUCKS TEACHERS PROTEST FLURRY OF ‘ANTI-LGBTQ’ POLICIES AND DIRECTIVES.

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The stirring five-part mystery, from acclaimed best-selling author Tom Rob Smith. London Spy, begins with a chance romance between two people from two very different walks of life—one from the high-powered ranks of investment banking and the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess. But t

New York City offers way too many art-viewing opportunities for us to cover in a single art trip video, Featuring Madison Square Park,City Hall Park, The High Line, Grand Army Plaza, Socrates Sculpture Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund. so this time we decided to focus on the abundant p...

You’re invited to put the pieces together. In the follow-up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jess

Little Island, the brand-new public playground off West 14th Street in the Hudson River, rises out of the water 200 feet from noisy Eleventh Avenue, but a world removed. It’s the biggest, and most creative, park opening since the High Line. The Big Apple has never seen anything like it.

Representative Steve Simon (DFL Hopkins/St. Louis Park) says a proposed Minnesota constitutional amendment is largely about religion. He says if sexual orientation is innate as science is showing us, and not a lifestyle choice, then God created gay people. He asks how many gay people must God create...