Wednesday, October 5 Walk It Off El Camino de Santiago is an ancient religious pilgrimage that for centuries has led Christians to a cathedral in northwestern Spain. It’s said to be the final resting place of Saint James. It’s also the subject of a new film, The Way, starring Martin Sheen Read More
Bill Clinton is writing another book! Called Back to Work, it's going to tell everyone how to get America “back into the future business.” In a statement from Knopf, the book is said to detail "how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity. He offers specific Read More
Before Bill Clinton walked onto the stage in the Hilton Hotel’s third-floor ballroom, he stood in the wings as the president of the International Association of Fire Fighters praised him for nearly six minutes.
“Simply put,” said I.A.F.F. general president Harold Schaitberger, Mr. Clinton is “the kind of leader American workers need more of holding office today at every level of government.” Read More
Gallerist David Zwirner, former president Bill Clinton and actor Ben Stiller announced today that they will co-chair a gala in September to benefit the Stiller Foundation, which is working to rebuild schools in Haiti that were damaged in the 2010 earthquake there. The dinner will take place on Sept. 23, at the Skylight Soho event Read More
It’s officially too hot in New York. Look, the 70’s were fun and the 80’s were tolerable, but the 90’s are much better suited to Ace of Base and the United Colors of Benetton than to average temperatures in Central Park. Riding the subway has felt like descending into the fiery pits of Hades—especially over Read More
Last night, The Observer managed to catch the closing night reading of "Billy Blythe," a folk opera based on early life of President Clinton (who took his stepfather’s name at age 14) at the Medicine Show Theater in Midtown, arriving just as a slideshow of documentary photographs faded to a piano ditty and sitting Read More
Chelsea Clinton joined advocates this evening in Manhattan to mark the first week of a phonebank campaign to legalize same-sex marriage, and said she hopes that New York will pass a same-sex marriage bill by her anniversary this July.
"As someone who got married last year, it was certainly the happiest day of my life Read More
Former President Clinton comes out in support of same-sex marriage, a sign of how far into the mainstream the LGBT agenda has become. (It was Clinton, after all, who signed things like the Defense of Marriage Act, which allows states the right to refuse same-sex marriages performed in other states; and Don't Ask Don't Read More
Debt Speech: "Obama spoke in strikingly partisan tones." [Michael Shear]
Debt Speech: The text. [New York Times]
Civics Lesson: NY needs more of it. [AP]
Air NYC: Pedestrian malls make Times Square air cleaner. [NY1]
Off Script: "It's not every day you hear an ex-president discuss his memories of a hooker." [CNN]
Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg announced the merger of their environmental groups, launching a partnership both men say could jump start environmental initiatives throughout the United States, and possibly, the world.
"What we want to do, by merging our efforts here," said Clinton, standing inside Gracie Mansion next to Bloomberg, "is to hammer home the way Read More
Hillary Clinton and a number of other female public officials recalled Geraldine Ferraro as a path-breaking icon and a fierce fighter for her family and her favored causes at a memorial service in Midtown Manhattan this morning among hundreds of her friends and family.
"She is seen correctly as paving the way for my political career and Read More
Earmarks: "[L]awmakers still have a way to get their favorite projects funded: appealing directly to federal agencies. [Ray Hernandez]
Database: Empire Center publishes 2010 state payroll. [Manhattan Institute]
Egypt: Footage of Hillary Clinton in Tahrir Square. [Daily News, Reuters]
Nuclear: Cuomo says of Indian Point, "It should be closed. This plant in this proximity Read More
When Bill Clinton arrived in Harlem on a sweltering summer day in 2001, Governor George Pataki proclaimed it "William Jefferson Clinton Day" in New York. Thousands of people flooded Adam Clayton Powell Jr. plaza and serenaded him with saxophones while the ex-president beamed like he'd invented jazz.
It's therefore impossible to overstate the news that ''America's Read More
