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• The Number: May, 2013

  16,000 The number of people, and the largest turnout in the show’s history, who showed up for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor auditions at Nassau Coliseum on April 25...

  • Posted 17 days ago
• The Target: May, 2013

  The hits, and misses, for May, 2013

  • Posted 18 days ago
• The Quote: May, 2013

  “Don’t allow the terror to prevail.” –Sister Sanaa Nadim, chaplain of Stony Brook University’s Musilm Student Association. (Read: MUSLIM AMERICANS)

  • Posted 18 days ago
• Book Review: A Dual Inheritance – By Joanna Hershon

  Brooklyn author Joanna Hershon’s father attended Harvard in the late 1950s. She was in middle school when she saw what’s known as Harvard’s Red Book, in which graduates write...

  • Posted 21 days ago
• The Rundown – May 2013

  From outer space... to Riverhead

  • Posted 21 days ago
• Pink Slip – May ’13

  You're fired!!

  • Posted 22 days ago
• Pink Slip – April ’13
  • Posted 50 days ago
• The Quote – April 2013

  “We’re in a moment where political satire, political comedy, is more able to provide more criticism than mainstream journalism outlets.” –Molly Knefel, a comic who co-hosts the satirical podcast,...

  • Posted 51 days ago
• The Rundown – April 2013

  1. SHARE THINGS YOU HATE WITH PEOPLE YOU LOVE Tired of Kim Kardashian? Lindsay Lohan? The cast of Twilight? Bicyclists who insist on riding on the Long Island Expressway...

  • Posted 53 days ago
• Book Review – Tenth of December

  TENTH OF DECEMBER By George Saunders George Saunders, who teaches creative writing at Syracuse University, won a prestigious MacArthur “genius grant” fellowship in 2006. He is wearing the mantle...

  • Posted 54 days ago