New York City Informer

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There was a scare in the air Monday involving a flight en route from Hong Kong to Newark Liberty Airport. A passenger aboard the flight began shouting about the CIA nine to ten hours into the flight, witnesses said. United Airlines flight 116 landed in Newark at around 1:45 p.m. It [...]

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Rubin, left, convinced Maria Sharapova to put her name on a line of gummies and tennis gum balls. The July issue of Fortune includes a crazy profile of the 49-year-old Jeff Rubin, founder and CEO of nouveau candy-store chain It’Sugar. Rubin was a co-founder of Dylan’s Candy Bar and created the candy program at FAO [...]

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Matt Harvey grew up a Yankee fan in Connecticut and, now that he’s a star for the Mets, he sure knows how to answer questions about his old favorite team.   At a Q&A Saturday morning, Harvey was asked about pitching against the Yanks earlier this season and his answer got cheers from a group [...]

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Matt Harvey wasn’t happy Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. He had just lost his first game of the year, thanks mostly to another dismal effort by the Mets hitters.      Mets – NY Daily News

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said Tim Tebow’s religious devotion is one of the things he likes about his new backup quarterback. amNewYork’s Urbanite

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John Baldessari receiving honorary Doctorate at CCA (Image courtesy of http://joniweyl.wordpress.com) MFA students enrolled in “teaching schools” aiming for a tenure track, might want to adjust their career goals. Online Colleges has researched the effects on budget cuts on employment practices, and they found that tenure is “becoming so rare it’s almost mythical.” Now, they write that [...]

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On October 12, 2003, Fairfield University student Mark Fisher spent the night drinking with fellow students in a couple of Upper East Side bars. When it got too late to take the train home, he accompanied two classmates, Angel DiPietro and Merideth Denihan, and several guys he didn’t know back to… Village Voice | News

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AndrewAndrew (PatrickMcMullan) Last Wednesday night, the Transom found ourselves schmoozing with an intimate crowd at the Paley Center after the Peggy Siegal screening of the Morton Downey Jr. documentary, Evocateur. It was an eclectic mix of media personalities: Dan Abrams, Regis Philbin, Dick Cavett, Gloria Allred, Donny Deutsch and Richard Bey (whom we had at [...]

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Jason Kidd reportedly met with Billy King Monday, hoping to convince the Nets general manager that he’s ready to be a head coach just days after hanging up his sneakers to end a 19-year playing career. Sports stories from Newsday

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Because you love reading about butthurt Citi Bike haters, check out today’s end-of-day links: Carmelo Anthony trolled, high Philadelphia crane operator, Chewbacca scares TSA, Bloomberg on “good grammar,” Russian speedo spirit animal, and kitty makes dog pet him. Don’t forget to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the [...]

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Richard Artschwager, Photo: Rachel Chandler, Courtesy David Nolan Gallery (Image courtesy of ayearofpositivethinking.com) Richard Artschwager’s last major work was a design for four elevators for the new Whitney Museum. They’re based on six motifs which appear often in his work: door, window, table, basket, mirror, and rug. “When visitors enter they will find themselves standing [...]

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Joss Whedon’s adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” draws out the essential screwball nature of Shakespeare’s comedy.      NYT > Theater

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Aleksandra Domanovic, Installation view Move over Frieze talks. This year’s Art Basel in Switzerland Conversations and Salons looks pretty great. They’d better livestream this shit. Here’s a few panels we suggest attending, should you be in Basel next week for the fairs. Thursday June 13 10am – 11:30am | Public/Private | Museums and Austerity Suzanne [...]

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Alex Rodriguez broke his silence on the Biogenesis doping scandal on Thursday, issuing a statement that suggests he believes the rights guaranteed by Major League Baseball’s contract with the Players Association have been violated and that he is the victim of a rush to judgment.      Yankees – NY Daily News

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Student Learning Objectives will count for 20 percent of most teachers’ evaluations next year, and yet many city educators know little about them. SLOs, a goal-setting tool, were written into the state’s teacher evaluation law in 2010, when legislators first revised it to require student achievement to factor into teachers’ ratings. The tool would be [...]

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