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  • NYT website attacked by unknown hackers

    The New York Times has revealed that its website was hacked earlier this week, preventing access to a small number of users. The newspaper claimed that earlier Chinese hackers had attacked the website for months, but did not mention the sources for the latest round of attacks. The Chinese hacking led the paper to turn to an outside security firm to block future attacks. A Huffington Post ...

  • 60 hurt as US trains collide New York-Boston corridor closed

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in southwestern Connecticut, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and closing the key corridor between New York and Boston. A Metro-North train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m. Friday, hitting the other train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 60 miles northeast of New York City ...

  • Iranian Wrestlers Abruptly Leave US Early

    The U.S. State Department has denied Iranian media reports that the United States deported the Iranian wrestling team ahead of a Sunday meet in Los Angeles. A State Department official tells VOA's Persian News Network that U.S. authorities had nothing to do with their departure. The wrestlers abruptly returned home after beating the American team in an exhibition Wednesday at Grand ...

  • US Russian Missile Shipments to Syria Very Unfortunate

    The top U.S. military officer says Russian missile shipments to Syria are "ill-timed" and "very unfortunate." The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, said Friday the missiles will embolden President Bashar al-Assad and prolong the suffering in Syria. He said Mr. Assad could think the missiles somehow will make him safer and more prone to a miscalculation. The ...

  • Pacers looking to close out Knicks in Game 6

    Indiana Pacers' Roy Hibbert (55) and Paul George (24) block a shot by New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler (6) during the first half of Game 4 of an Eastern Conference semi-final NBA basketball playoff series on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Indianapolis. (Darron ...


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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday [DVD]

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday [DVD]

Credit should be given where credit is due: The filmmakers behind Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday tried. They really tried. Doing something original or different with the ninth installment of the Friday the 13th slasher franchise, which was largely derivative to begin with, was a significant task. That the end result is convoluted, lacking in logical coherence, and somet ... ...

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  • Hard days fight Founders of Beatles tribute band sue co-producer for allegedly knocking off their act

    An imitation Beatles band is upset that another bunch of Fab Four fakers could soon be here, there and everywhere.The founding members of "Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles" sued their co-producer yesterday for allegedly knocking off their act for a British production called "Let It Be" that’s expected to open on Broadway in July.Court papers also allege that Jeff Parry ...

  • State spending $90M upgrading parks historic sites

    ALBANY — The Cuomo administration says about $90 million will be spent this year on construction projects at 50 of the ...

  • Heights transports you to New York neighborhood

    May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...

  • First Rentals Native New York Style

    Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...

  • Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York

    On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...

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