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For several years, activists in the UK have waged a campaign against homophobic songs in dancehall, a modern form of Reggae. Now the campaign is growing in North America. Concerts are being picketed and i-Tunes Canada recently announced it was pulling all homophobic dancehall songs from its website. As Jonah ...

The towers that sit above Carnegie Hall have been home to artists of all kinds for over a century - including Isadora Duncan, Leonard Bernstein and Norman Mailer. Today, the state’s Supreme Court heard arguments over the future of the tenants still living there. They have survived the recent efforts ...

In June, City council increased funding to public libraries in all five boroughs extending their hours to 6 days a week. Earlier this week, Brooke Astor died. The Grand Dame of New York society and philanthropy was a great patron of the city's public libraries. With libraries in the news, ...

In 1994, newly elected Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his police chief Bill Bratton unveiled a plan to restore a city suffering from a crack epidemic and high crime. Under "quality of life" policing, the NYPD began enforcing a zero-tolerance policy of even minor infractions. A key feature of the new ...