"We’re moving to a new facility, but we’re bringing all the good memories to the new facility, so hopefully it will be fine," Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera was saying to The Observer Monday night.

"We’re not moving that far, you know; a few blocks, a block, just half a block."

Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton went deep 28 times in the first round of the Home Run Derby earlier in the evening, shattering Bobby Abreu’s single round record, and now the stars of Major League Baseball were scattered around town helping people market products that were tied to the ‘All-Star Week’ events.

“I was able to watch and everything was beautiful,” Mr.  read more »

Last night, at the "Rock to Save Darfur Concert-Benefit," City Councilman Eric Gioia told Talib Kweli that he'd like to replace Mos Def as the other half of Blackstar. Kweli laughed and shook his head.

Gioia was at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square, along with a handful of hip-hop artists and human rights activists, as one of the sponsors of a City Council resolution asking the New York City pension fund to divest from Sudan.

“I’ve been working on this for about two years, and its kind of a lonely fight,” Gioia told me backstage before he addressed the crowd.  read more »

Flatbush native Talib Kweli recently moved to Carroll Gardens. The rapper sounded vaguely uncomfortable about this turn of events when reached by phone Monday.  read more »