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  • Bang With Friends mysterious CEO revealed

    Bang with Friends- the controversial Facebook app run by its CEO and co-founder who just goes by his initial 'C' has been revealed accidentally by Internet New York which included the founders' name on the online ballot. BWF app creator Colin Hodge, 28, and Omri Mor had remained anonymous till last week, but the leak of their identity through Internet Week New York disappointed Hodge, the Daily ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • Hagel tells West Point cadets they must stamp out scourge of sex assault in military

    WEST POINT - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military.A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series of widespread incidents of sexual misconduct across the armed services in recent ...

  • Week later 1 charged in stabbing death of NY man

    Police on Saturday say they arrested Steven Hamilton of Blooming Grove about 3 p.m. Friday in a grocery store parking lot. He is accused of stabbing 21-year-old Daquan Nugent to death on May 17 in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York ...


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Movie Review

The King's Speech [Blu-Ray]

The King's Speech [Blu-Ray]

There are a couple of ways to look at The Kings Speech. From the most cynical vantage point, we can label this British-Australian-American coproduction as pure awards bait, another in a long line of carefully calculated, Weinstein-stamped period pieces; it hits all the right ... ...

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  • Totally Biased Turns Knicks Gay Protest Into Fashion Show At Madison Square Garden

    "Totally Biased" sent two correspondents, comedians Guy Branum and Aparna Nancherla, to Madison Square Garden to interview people protesting gay-bashing that recently occurred at Knicks games -- interview them about their fashion choices, of course. Check out the clip above to see what happens when a protest turns into a red ...

  • Vietnam memorial wall replica on display in Oswego County

    New Haven, NY -- The Vietnam Moving Wall will be on display in Oswego County until Monday evening. The memorial wall is being hosted by the New Haven American Legion Post #1532 and the Mexico American Legion Post #384. The original replica is half the size of the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. and will be at the New Haven Fire Station until Monday. The wall will be open to the public 24 hours ...

  • No injuries in Davis Street fire Syracuse firefighters say

    a house fire on Davis Street in the city of Syracuse Friday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a three-apartment house at 219 Davis St. around 3 p.m. after a caller reported smoke coming from the windows. The first floor of the house is vacant, but the second floor is occupied, a fire official said. No one was home at the time of the fire. The fire was out by 3:30 p.m. and no one was ...

  • NYPD street stop policys critics seek big changes

    NEW YORK -; It once was an accepted tactic as old as policing itself and, according to the New York Police Department, a key to the city's dramatic drop in crime: patrol officers stopping young men on the street to see if they're up to no ...

  • Rescuers search for pilot of Angel Flight that crashed upstate killing two passengers

    EPHRATAH - Divers searched a large pond while investigators combed nearby woods Saturday for any sign of the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed, killing two passengers.The plane's passengers were found dead Friday night near where the small plane crashed in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany, Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said. The bulk of the plane was found submerged ...

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