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☆ Harry Belafonte, who mixed music, acting, and activism, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Bill Trott | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Belafonte was born in New York City's borough of Manhattan but spent his early childhood in his family's native Jamaica. A few weeks before the launch, Belafonte told Rolling Stone magazine that singing was a way for him to express injustices in the world. "We were instructed to never capitulate, to never yield, to always resist oppression," Belafonte told Yes! "The Navy came as a place of relief for me," Belafonte told Yes! Belafonte was the first Black performer to win a major Emmy in 1960 with his appearance on a television variety special.

☆ Riding with the woman in charge of America’s last muscle car
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

I could take a ride in what will soon be America’s last gasoline-powered muscle car with the woman who’s in charge of getting it into production and onto the street. Courtesy FordTransou and others at Ford will tell you there is an electric Mustang, the Mustang Mach-E SUV. As we took off, there was a burst of speed and throaty V8 engine noise as we blasted down Manhattan’s 10th Avenue. First, it’s the only actual car Ford currently sells in the United States. About 40% of V8 Mustang buyers get a manual transmission, she said, going for that truly classic driving experience.

☆ They Had $350,000 and a Dream to Live Together. Could They Make It in Manhattan?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

For 30 years, Ms. Denlinger rented a sunny fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan Valley. Ms. Ladin, 62 — the first openly transgender professor at Yeshiva University, where she taught English — suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. “I had not done any real estate hunting for 30 years,” Ms. Denlinger said. To find her Manhattan Valley apartment, “I got a Village Voice, looked in the ads, called up the landlord and made an appointment. “We needed two rooms that could be really separate, where one was not a bathroom or a kitchen,” Ms. Ladin said.

☆ We moved to North Carolina but are about to leave because the salaries aren't high enough and the diversity we value ended at the city limits
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They opted to rent in Charlotte, North Carolina, because of the affordability and diversity. North Carolina isn't as affordable as it seemsCielo: We bought our house in California in 2018 for $432,000. We decided to rent in North Carolina because when we were looking into housing, it was getting expensive. Everyone we spoke to says that that's an issue with the entire south, not just North Carolina. Did you move to North Carolina recently?

☆ Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center celebrates 23 years in Harlem
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center celebrates 23 years in HarlemSister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center in Harlem, founded by Janifer Wilson, has been a staple in the community for 23 years. Wilson's hope was to create a shared space within the community where people could buy books and share stories.

Dinnall, 51, is a train conductor for the New York City subway system — the heartbeat that keeps the city running. Natasha Dinnall, 51, is a NYC subway conductor and earns $86,000 per year. Here's how Dinnall earns $86,000 a year as a subway conductor in NYC. She took her first job with the agency as a property protection agent and later became a station agent, conductor, train operator, and finally a conductor again. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItEmployees must go through "extensive training" to become a conductor, Dinnall says.

☆ 36 Hours in New Orleans
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Richard Fausset | Richard Fausset Is A New York Times National Correspondent Who Grew Up In New Orleans. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Grab a biscuit UptownThe six-mile commercial corridor of Magazine Street is a glorious mish-mash of retail shops, art galleries and good places to eat, with surprises on nearly every block. For breakfast Uptown, stop in for a flaky cheddar-and-chive biscuit ($4.75) at La Boulangerie , a New Orleans take on a classic French bakery with a happy thrum on Saturday mornings. arts underground. Shawarma On The Go , inside a Jetgo gas station, is notable for its Lebanese iced tea with pine nuts. Crunchy, cold, aromatic and savory-sweet, the drink is a local spin on a traditional Lebanese drink called jallab.

☆ Hate your commute? It might actually be good for your mental health, scientists say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The commute is often seen as a chore, but the pandemic showed it can be good for your mental health. You need protected time to mentally switch gears after work to prevent burnout, two experts said. This happens on two fronts, the researchers said: psychological detachment and psychological recovery. In an unpublished study, the researchers asked 80 university employees to discuss situations when they were able to mentally switch off. Remote workers, who don't tend to have a commute, can also learn to switch off by creating a fake commute for themselves.

☆ Equity & Opportunity Spotlight: Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEquity & Opportunity Spotlight: Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural CenterEquity and Opportunity is celebrating Black Heritage Month by shining a spotlight on Sister's Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center in Harlem which has created a safe place for the community for 23 years.

☆ The Fed may wreck one of the greatest booms in history of Main Street America
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Tim Mullaney | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

As interest rates rise, inflation lingers and home equity that many business founders use to get started shrinks, small business formations are doing something unexpected – they're rising. If the data persists, the resilience in small business formation points to a "new plateau" of activity that may add millions of jobs to the economy, Haltiwanger says. But the risks include the Fed itself choking off financial conditions so much that the small business boom is smothered. Danny Sweis opened his in the summer of 2022. If that lasts, that means 4 million per year, offset by 2.5 million lost as other small businesses close.

☆ How this 27-year-old entrepreneur built his $8 million dessert empire after leaving Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

With the help of a business loan, the Wall Street analyst turned food entrepreneur bought a 16 Handles franchise in Manhattan in 2019. Taking advantage of a depressed real-estate market amid the pandemic, he negotiated favorable long-term leases and opened several 16 Handles locations. Last month, I closed on the acquisition of 16 Handles, the frozen-yogurt and soft-serve franchise with over 30 units across five states. Buying 16 Handles and growing it to a national brandAs the largest franchisee working with the franchisor, we were misaligned on what we saw as the vision for 16 Handles. A key reason for my success with 16 Handles is that I found creative solutions to what otherwise seem like impossible obstacles.

☆ How an English D.J. in Brooklyn Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Lia Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Trish Mann, also known as D.J. She also anchors evenings as part of the Mobile Mondays crew, a D.J. collective that puts on parties “honoring the 45.”At 60, and as a known commodity with decades of experience, Ms. Mann can pick the gig she wants. “I just can’t do that as regularly as I used to.” She loves the fact that her work bestows joy. “You are as good as the audience in front of you, and I’m lucky to be part of dope parties with amazing audiences.”

☆ In Charlotte, a 17,000-Square-Foot Spread With 13 Live-Work Units Asks $12.9 Million
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A roughly 17,000-square-foot spread in a Charlotte, N.C., condominium is going on the market for $12.9 million, making it the city’s most expensive listing on the local multiple listing service, according to listing agent Hanes Walker of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. The offering includes 13 live-work condo units in a converted 1920s factory building near uptown Charlotte, Mr. Walker said. The owners are Jeffrey Gitomer , author of 17 books including the 2004 bestseller “The Little Red Book of Selling,” and his wife, sales coach Jennifer Gitomer.

☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.

☆ Best of: 10 localuri din Chișinău, unde puteți savura bucatele în aer liber, la o terasă
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Astfel, noi am selectat o listă cu localuri din Chișinău, unde puteți savura bucatele/băuturele în aer liber. Igor Vieru 8/3Programul de lucru: luni-duminică – 10.00-23.00Bea o cafea la micul dejun sau savurează o cină delicioasă după o zi de muncă grea. 31 august 1989Programul de lucru: luni-duminică – 9.0-23.00Uptown Cafe este un local cu un concept „friendly” și o terasă în aer liber. Acest local se află în centrul orașului și îți pune la dispoziție o terasă relaxantă și foarte confortabilă. Pușkin 10Programul de lucru: luni-duminică – 10.00-23.00Mojito Centru este o cafenea care oferă o terasă de dimensiuni impresionante și care în perioada caldă a anului este foarte solicitată.

Persons: Ștefan cel Mare, Andersen, Igor Vieru, Pușkin Locations: Chișinău, Chișinău, Marlène, Cafe, Forno, italiană, Chișinăului

10 cele mai vizualizate clipuri video de pe YouTube au acumulat în total 48,9 miliarde de vizualizări, cifră actualizată la data de 12 ianuarie. Dintre aceste 10 videouri, patru sunt din desene animate sau din videouri educative. Bath Song – CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs, 3,5 miliarde de vizualizări#9. Johny Johny Yes Papa – LooLoo Kids, 4,6 miliarde de vizualizări#4. Baby Shark Dance – Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories, 7,6 miliarde de vizualizări

Persons: Uptown Funk, Mars, . Mark Ronson, Johny, Yes Papa, Charlie Puth, Маша, Медведь Organizations: Bath Song, . Locations: Bath

☆ «Мир готов, технология — нет»: почему роботы Boston Dynamics не пользуются спросом
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-01 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Компания Boston Dynamics выложила в сеть видео, в котором показала роботов Atlas, Spot и Handle, танцующих под песню «Do You Love Me». Стоит отметить, что, несмотря на популярность машин от Boston Dynamics, в реальном мире они практически не используются. Роботы от Boston Dynamics могут делать многие вещи: бегать, делать сальто, мыть посуду и открывать двери. На видео представлена вся линейка роботов Boston Dynamics — человекоподобный Atlas, робопес Spot и механическая рука Handle. Это уже не первый раз, когда Boston Dynamics демонстрирует танцевальные навыки своих роботов.

Persons: , Tesla, Илон Маск Organizations: Boston Dynamics, YouTube, Dynamics —, Tesla SpaceX, Газета. Locations: Funk

☆ Six Decades After the Banana Boat, Harry Belafonte’s Archive Sails Home
▼ + stars: | 2020-03-13 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Harry Belafonte turned 93 on March 1, he celebrated with a tribute at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, which ended with a thunderous audience singalong to a riff on his star-making 1956 hit, “The Banana Boat Song,” complete with the rapper Doug E. Fresh beatboxing over its famous “Day-O!” refrain. It was a fitting salute at a building which Mr. Belafonte, in his 2011 memoir, called a “cathedral of spirituality.” But, just a few blocks uptown, he is receiving a quieter but no less momentous celebration. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, has acquired Mr. Belafonte’s personal archive — a vast maze of photographs, recordings, films, letters, artwork, clipping albums and other materials. It illuminates not just his career as an musician and actor, but as an activist and connector who seemed to know everyone, from Paul Robeson and Marlon Brando to Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys and Nelson Mandela.

TripAdvisor: locul 23/231, nota 4,0/5 din 60 de recenzii. TripAdvisor: locul 122/231, nota 4,0/5 din 8 de recenzii. TripAdvisor: locul 52/231, nota 4,0/5 din 10 de recenzii. TripAdvisor: locul 151/231, nota 4,0/5 din 58 de recenzii. TripAdvisor: locul 56/231, nota 4,0/5 din 31 de recenzii.

Persons: cel Mare, August, Eli Pili, Pușkin, Bănulescu, Bodoni, Ștefan cel Mare, Mami, Mihai Eminescu, Veronica Micle, Buddha Bar Organizations: Pegas, Palace, Best Locations: Chișinău, Sarmizegetusa, Kiev, Bucureşti, Oliva, Matryoshka, Draft, Uptown, Sarkis

Best of: Locurile în Chișinău unde poți găsi cele mai gustoși burgeriEchipa #diez caută cele mai interesante locuri din Chișinău. Pentru localurile cu cele mai bune burgere ne-am condus după recomandările din comunitățile de pe Facebook: Ask a Man și Sfaturi Pidijeaba. Uptown CafeFiecare a treia persoană va spune că aici se găsesc cele mai bune burgere din Chișinău. 4/5 steluțe pe TripAdvisor, din 45 recenzii. Oky Doky CafeOrice persoană care a fost în SUA și a gustat un burget de la Oki Doki spune că este unul foarte bun.

Persons: Ask, Man, Cineva, Jack’s Bar, Oky, Gastrobar, Burger Organizations: Facebook, Buffalo Steak, Jack’s, Western Locations: Chișinău, Buffalo, Jacks, SUA, Chef, Kiras

☆ (video) 100 de scene de dans din filme, compilate sub hitul „Uptown Funk”
▼ + stars: | 2015-09-20 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Una dintre cele mai dansante și populare piese ale verii lui 2015, piesă care se bucură de un succes enorm și până acum, având peste un miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube, „Uptown Funk”, a adunat 100 de scene de dans într-o compilație excepțională. Piesa aparține lui Mark Ronson, în colaborare cu artistul Bruno Mars. Canalul de YouTube What’s the Mashup? a creat un video, în care a adunat 100 de scene de dans din filme ca „Napoleon Dynamite”, „Dirty Dancing”, „Breakfast Club”, „Sister Act”, „Austin Powers”, „Magic Mike” și chiar din desene animate, precum „Alladin” și „Lion King”.

Persons: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars ., Napoleon, Austin Organizations: Bruno Mars . Canalul

Best of: Localurile din Chișinău cu cele mai interesante WC-uriÎn perioada noiembrie-decembrie 2014, am întrebat cititorii #diez care sunt cele mai bune localuri din Chișinău pentru diferite lucruri, de la micul dejun până la cină, de la unde este cea mai bună zeamă până la localurile unde se servește cea mai bună pizza. Azi vă prezentăm localurile din Chișinău unde pot fi găsite cele mai interesante WC-uri. Crème de la CrèmeSe spune că WC-ul de la Crème de la Crème este cel mai energizant WC din Chișinău. CaravanAu mozaic pe pereți și o manta turcească pentru femei pusă pe un manechin ca să o probezi, plus o pălărie. La bărbați situația e mai „tare”, unde sub podea a fost amplasată o morişcă ce funcţionează practic nonstop.

Persons: Eli Pili, Gazetto, Monicăi Bellucci, Pink Martini, Karl Schimidt, Tesla, Maximilian Organizations: Buffalo Steak, Hollywood, Pegas, Best Locations: Chișinău, McD, Crème, Franța, Italia, Germania, Buffalo, Cocos, Tucano, Fanconi, GastroBar, Novas, Garden, Berezka, Melony, UpTown, Komunalka, Chisinau

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