Dith Pran/The New York TimesDeborah L. Rose in 2000. Staten Island has long been unique in this racially diverse city: a borough where whites constitute the vast majority. But over the last few decades and particularly in recent years, people of other races have been increasingly calling the island home. From 1990 to 2000, the percentage of residents who identified themselves as black increased to...
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson died yesterday at 83, apparently of heart disease. Robertson is best known for a vivid recounting of her battle with toxic shock syndrome in the Times Magazine , which netted her the Pulitzer in 1983, and The Girls in the Balcony , a book...
Btms^ for Sunday, September 27. Liquor Barns in Louisville and Lexington are open today from 1 pm to 9 pm. Drink Forecast for Today (DF 4 2day): A Sam Adams beer 2 toast to Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader, born on this date in 1722. On this date in… 1389 - Italian patron of the arts Cosimo de Medici [...]
The Jesuits received their charter from Pope Paul III in 1540. The Stockton-Darlington Railway began the world's first locomotive-hauled passenger service in 1825. A Southern Railway mail train called Old 97 jumped the track in 1903, providing the inspiration for this: (Of course, Hank's version wasn't a patch on my grandfather's, but no one ever recorded his.) The Balinese tiger was declared extinct...
Today's media landscape is truly visual; news sites are constantly seeking to develop their video and photographic features, to both corroborate their stories and entertain. The posting of purposefully filmed video obituaries, as pioneered by the New York Times is...
I've always thought this was a brilliant way for newspapers to use video. Two years ago the New York Times launched 'The Last Word' - video obits recorded with well known people before they died which are broadcast on their death. The first was columnist Art Buchwald whose video obit memorably begins "Hi, I'm Art Buchwald and I just died." You can see it here . Since then, the newspaper has...
The idea of constructing an artificially cooled beach sounds like an anachronistic excess in a world that is struggling to keep a pledge to go greener. But what is surely a bigger problem for global climate policy wonks is the broader tourism industry.
(Photo: Speaking of innovation, the LucasFilm licensee Nikko Home Electronics came out last year with an R2-D2 DVD Projector.) John Mashey, a self-described "ancient UNIX person" who worked at Bell Labs from 1973 to 1983, posted some thoughts about how the labs shaped R and D efforts and investment to raise the odds of [...].
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. 111 Staffers at NewsweekTake Buyout (Radar) The staff of Newsweek will shrink dramatically, after 111 staffers on its news and business sides accepted a buyout last week. Among those leaving are...
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