Paul Giamatti Buys $1.3 Million Brooklyn Heights Condo Huffington Post | ny.curbed.com: | Actor and Brooklyn Heights boy Paul Giamatti was last spotted checking out a One Brooklyn Bridge Park unit back in December. The Sideways star was indeed apartment hunting, but he's opted not to play in the city's largest sandbox. | Read the whole story: ny.curbed.com Get HuffPost...
Dream trip for band up in the air as flight cancelled BBC News | Eighty members of a youth wind band booked to perform a "dream concert" in New York have heard their flight is grounded by the British Airways strike | The players from the Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan's Music Service's Youth Wind Band each raised £1,000 to fund their trip ...
Skip the $41 Burger. The 99-Cent Pizza Will Do. The New York Times | The signs at the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 41st Street have an unbelievable, you-gotta-be-kidding quality, like free beer or affordable housing — 99¢ Fresh Pizza. Like many things in New York City, they are also too good to be true...
Alcohol Cited in 2008 Russian Crash The New York Times | MOSCOW — A pilot’s drunkenness was a contributing cause of a commercial airline crash in Russia in 2008, Russian prosecutors said on Monday, reaching a conclusion extraordinarily rare in airline crash investigations. | Russia’s av...
North-eastern US mops up after storm Gulf News | Egg Harbor City, New Jersey: Residents of the north-eastern US mopped up on Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded some creeks and rivers. Six people died in storm-related accident...
Farrell, Duvall bring films to Tribeca Film Fest Kansas City Star Mark J. Terrill Colin Farrell appears during the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. More News | The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival will include a new movie from Neil Jordan, a documentary on Joan R...
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The Obesity-Hunger Paradox The New York Times | WHEN most people think of hunger in America, the images that leap to mind are of ragged toddlers in Appalachia or rail-thin children in dingy apartments reaching for empty bottle...
Outside Guide: Primo places for pizza pie Denver Post Abbondan-'za! An abundance of fine pizza all around | Ross Vassar pulls a pizza from the oven at Fat Sullys. Fat Sullys' pies are among a number of worthy pizzerias around the metr...
Lehman balance sheet massaging may not be unusual The Guardian * Others boost assets early in quarter, pare them later * Lehman may have been most aggressive By Dan Wilchins and Matthew Goldstein NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - On Wall Street, ...
NYC ex-bank prez charged in bailout fraud Newsvine | NEW YORK — The former president of a small Manhattan community bank on Monday became the first person accused of trying to defraud the federal bailout program. | Prosecutors also contend that Charles Antonucci Sr., stole so he could live a la...
NYC ex-bank prez charged in bailout fraud The Guardian | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Associated Press Writer= NEW YORK (AP) — The former president of a small Manhattan community bank on Monday became the first person accused of trying to defraud the federal bailout program. | Prosecutors also contend that Charl...
Swiss ace left shaken by sour moment Gulf News | Indian Wells, California: Last Friday's verbal showdown between Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras has been described by world number one Roger Federer as an "awkward moment" and "a bit unfortunate". | The episode occurred during the ‘Hit for Haiti' charity doubles match at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden where Sampras took ex...
Cinema a unifying force in diverse India, says Big B Gulf News | He has defied age. He has defied life-threatening injuries and illness. And Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan oozes the same aura that catapulted him to super stardom in the 1970s. | The iconic star from Mumbai, who received a Lifetime Achievement award at the Muscat International Film Festival on Friday, is modest to the core, which was evident ...
