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runaways ny premiere 5

2010-03-18T17:18:39Z

Erin Lucas The NY premiere of 'The Runaways' shown at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema - Arrivals New York City, USA - 17.03.10

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runaways ny premiere 4

2010-03-18T17:17:18Z

Heidi Lingren, at the premiere of 'The Runaways' shown at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema - Arrivals New York City, USA - 17.03.10

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Toni Morrison among writers at NY literature event

2010-03-18T15:45:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie among writers to be featured at literature event in NYC</div><div><p>Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Sherman Alexie will be among the writers featured at the sixth annual PEN World Voices F...

Immigrants heading to Washington to push reforms

2010-03-18T14:30:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Immigrants heading to Washington from across the country to rally for immigration reform</div><div><p>Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them undocumented Hispanics, to dramatize thei...

Owners threaten to shut down New Jersey nuke plant

2010-03-18T11:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Owners threaten to shut NJ's Oyster Creek nuke plant rather than build required cooling towers</div><div><p>Owners of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant are threatening to shut it down rather than build cooling towers mandated by New Jersey environmental regulators.</p><p>Exelon Corp. says the $800 million it would cos...

Many NYC Funeral Homes Deny Consumers Pricing Information

2010-03-18T00:15:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Consumers encouraged to know their rights to funeral pricing information</div><div><p>A two-month long investigation of the sales practices of New York City funeral homes finds may of them are playing fast and loose with city regulations. </p><p>Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Jonathan Mintz says the inspe...

Nation, world go green for St. Patrick's Day

2010-03-17T18:00:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Kilts, green body paint decorate NYC as marchers worldwide parade in honor of St. Patrick</div><div><p>All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day w...

Lawyer: Man drunk during fire at 9/11 remains site

2010-03-17T17:00:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Lawyer: Harvard Law grad accused of setting fire at NYC chapel housing 9/11 remains was drunk</div><div><p>A defense lawyer says a Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting a fire at a New York City chapel that temporarily housed the remains of Sept. 11 victims was so drunk he barely remembers being there.</p><p>...

Government sets school bonds, Congress approves rebates

2010-03-17T11:30:19Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State and school districts can now tap their 2010 allocations of stimulus school construction bonds, which total $11 billion, the Treasury and Education Departments said on Wednesday, as the U.S. Congress moved to create more demand for the debt.</p><...

New York "vandals" mock consumer culture

2010-03-17T05:15:48Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - In New York City's subway system, self-described vandals who share the name Poster Boy have a political agenda: make passengers question the barrage of advertising they face each day.</p><p>Skilled with razors, they cut up poster ads for movies, television shows, or consumer products in mere minutes, rearranging let...

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm

2010-03-16T18:00:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm; some residents hope to return soon</div><div><p>The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities.</p><p>Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still inundated with water, with tens of thousands of people lacking electricity and hundreds still in emergen...

NYC abuzz: Sweet deal makes bees legal

2010-03-16T13:45:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Sweet news for the colonies: NYC legalizes honeybees in a boon for keepers of rooftop hives</div><div><p>Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret.</p><p>The city's health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beekeeping within city limits.</p><p>Previously, the city's health code had placed honeybees in the sam...

NYC restaurants must now show their report cards

2010-03-16T11:00:11Z

<div><p>New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday.</p><p>The best will get an A, according to the system approved by the city Board of Health.</p><p>Officials say the grading system is designed to give p...

NY restaurants to get review -- for hygiene

2010-03-16T10:18:03Z

<div><p>New York restaurants proudly display reviews in the window about the taste of their cuisine. Now they'll have to have one saying whether the food's also clean.</p><p>The city's health board on Tuesday approved the regulation requiring all the approximately 24,000 eateries to display letter grades in the entranceway -- anything less than A meaning not fully hygienic.</p><p>"New York City restaura...

NYC restaurants must show health inspection grades

2010-03-16T09:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC restaurants must display cleanliness 'grades' from health dept, visible at doorway</div><div><p>The New York City Board of Health has voted to require restaurants to tell the public what inspectors think of their cleanliness by displaying large letter grades near their entrances.</p><p...

Gay Entertainment Report: Gay Socialites Invade Logo

2010-03-16T08:00:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Gay cabler Logo is preparing for an invasion of gay power couples</div><div><p> <p>Gay cabler Logo is preparing for an invasion of gay power couples.</p> <p>The MTV-owned network has set a production date for its upcoming all-gay spinoff of Bravo's 'Reuters) - New York City will renovate 21 public housing projects, home to thousands of people, through two deals that allow it to for the first time tap federal funds for them, the city and state said on Monday.</p><p>Many of the projects have become dilapidated because the Reuters) - New York state will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and the state's horse breeding industry will be destroyed if the funding provided by New York City's bankrupt Off-Track Betting Corp<...

Post-snow, Northeast mops up from wind-driven rain

2010-03-14T17:00:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Northeast copes with flooding, power outages as rain takes up where blizzards left off; 6 dead</div><div><p>Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it's waterlogged by torrential rains.</p><p>The region mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded creeks and rivers. Six people died in storm-rela...

NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus

2010-03-13T03:00:26Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC officials: Taxi drivers scammed riders by $8.3M-plus by setting meters to suburban rate</div><div><p>Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the