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February 5th, 2010

Education Council Takes Concerns About Charter School Hearings to Speaker Silver

Last week we reported that District 1’s Education Council passed a resolution protesting the Department of Education’s handling of a state-mandated hearing at Manhattan Charter School. In what they said was a recurring problem, the DOE scheduled the hearing, to consider a renewal of the LES school’s charter, at the same time as the monthly [...]

February 5th, 2010

Liquor Authority Chief Listens, As Residents and Bar Owners Vent

Dennis Rosen speaking at night life town hall hosted by Senator Squadron, at right.

SLA Chief Dennis Rosen (left), Sen. Daniel Squadron (right)

No one can say Dennis Rosen, the new head of the State Liquor Authority, is not a patient man. For three-and-a-half hours last night, he sat on stage at P.S. 20 listening to a litany of complaints from dozens of frustrated residents and bar owners.  Five [...]

February 5th, 2010

Weekend Fun For the Whole Family

Annie Hart (Au Revoir Simone) and Doug Marvin (Dirty on Purpose), of the band Uninhabitable Mansions

This weekend is full of fun family events on the Lower East Side:

Beginning at 10am with the FREE New Museum series, First Saturdays For Families, you can check out the exhibition “Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX” with artist Nikhil Chopra (above) as he combines theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, and installation to chronicle the [...]