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In his book Dry Manhattan, Michael Lerner (associate dean at Bard High School Early College in New York City) not only portrays the impact of Prohibition on the Big Apple in fascinating detail, but also offers key insights into the political process that both made Prohibition possible and led to its demise. While people with some knowledge of history are aware that Prohibition created opportunities for corruption, filled the coffers of organized crime, undermined respect for the law, and made drinking more dangerous but no less common, Lerner offers specifics that lend greater immediacy to those things than mere statistics can.
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MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The large apartment complex fire that occurred on Sunday morning, Nov. 6, at the Strasser Village Apartments, 300 N. Fourth St., Manhattan, Kan. has been ruled an incendiary fire by investigators. Investigators concluded the fire originated in the northern section of the apartment complex. Sufficient evidence was recovered by investigators to eliminate all known potential accidental causes and determine the fire was intentionally set. The fire caused an estimated $2.7 million in damage to the Strasser Village Apartments. Total damage estimates to nearby businesses remain undetermined at this time but could exceed $2 million. Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s National Response Team ...
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Stuart Byron scored Allen's inability to endorse any sexual lifestyle - other than his own phallocentric sense of heterosexual serial monogamy; Stanley Crouch mocked the notion of a Manhattan populated exclusively by WASPs and Jews: "I have never seen an intelligent black character in a Woody Allen film." (Where Louis Armstrong and Willie Mays were only referred to in Manhattan, Bella Abzug actually appeared as a signifier of the Equal Rights Amendment.) The most perverse view in the Voice was presented by Ellen Willis, who parsed Manhattan's Jewish sexual politics and proposed that Keaton was the movie's aggressive, argumentative, angst-ridden, and frizzy-haired crypto-Jewish Rebecca, with Hemingway as the resident dewy WASP Rowena: Critics, as a group, can't stand grown-up Rebecca an...
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For an artist who acquired his stage name on a whim -- after wearing a yellow and black striped sweater -- Sting has had quite a lasting career. The former Police frontman celebrated his 60th birthday last month with a benefit concert performing career favorites with friends Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel and Lady Gaga.
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I'm in a kayak in the Hudson River off the shores of Manhattan, and my son is leaning over to touch the hull of a World War II-era aircraft carrier. We have just dodged two departing ferryboats and paddled through the wake of several sightseeing cruises, and, by all rights, I should probably be a very worried mother now.
