Highlights this weekend include a Las Vegas-meets-Broadway style spectacle starring celebrated escape artist Lord Nil, an M. Night Shyamalan retrospective and Kel Mitchell‘s nostalgia-driven food festival. There’s also free events including a Bob Mackie exhibit in SoHo and Troy Anthony’s music-centered adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” in Morningside Heights. Theater “Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins” (Jeremy… Read More »
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KEN MORITSUGU, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week, the two countries said Thursday, in an event that would bring him together with a large group of world leaders for… Read More »
Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2025. There are 125 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 28,1955, Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had allegedly whistled at a white woman four days… Read More »
Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug. 28, 1955 was visiting relatives in rural Money, Miss. In a state with more than 500 recorded lynchings of Black… Read More »
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has faced its greatest threats yet since Donald Trump promised a “society that is color-blind and merit-based” in his inauguration this January. Across town, in the church that held the funerals of Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks, members of the National Action Network and I made a vow to fight for… Read More »
As tragic as Gaza is, it’s the realities of war Margate, Fla.: Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels infamously said, “A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” Voicer T.S. Fallani’s enthusiastic calumny of “genocide” is negated by the facts. In fact, “Palestinian genocide” is a Big… Read More »
Dear Eric: How do you recommend dealing with a friend who often offers assistance but never follows through? By the way, cognitive or memory issues do not impact any other situations, and the offer does appear to be genuine. Since the matters are generally not urgent, and I have the means to resolve them on… Read More »
As President Trump’s ramped-up immigration enforcement against students this summer sparks back-to-school anxiety, New York City’s schools chancellor made an emotional appeal to parents on Wednesday: Please send your children to school. During a rare appearance at the New York Immigration Coalition’s annual “Know Your Rights” press conference, held just more than a week before… Read More »
General Daily Insight for August 28, 2025 Emotional release is feasible at this time. As the volatile Scorpio Moon occupies the tense midpoint between passionate Venus and power-hungry Pluto, we may not be able to hold back our feelings any longer. Thankfully, today’s drama probably won’t last forever. As futuristic Uranus sextiles visionary Neptune at… Read More »
All season, the Mets‘ starting rotation has been a reminder of how difficult it is to get big league hitters out. Nolan McLean never got that memo. In only his third start on a major league mound, and in yet another crucial rivalry game in the middle of a playoff chase, the rookie righty absolutely… Read More »