Prosecutors want the judge to send Hillel Nahmad to federal prison for 12 to 18 months for his involvement in an international gambling ring. Nahmad’s defense attorneys say he should be sentenced to paying for and running a scheme to bring Bronx schoolchildren to the Met Museum.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Street Artist Finds Himself Making A Dance For NY City Ballet
“Yes, it’s true: City Ballet is turning itself – and more than 40 members of its company – over to a man who has never choreographed before. He watched his first ballet in June. Do you hear that sound? Choreographers everywhere are eating their hearts out.”
For First Time, Tony For Regional Theater Goes To NYC Company
“Before this year theaters in the five boroughs were ineligible for the annual award, which was created to honor theaters that did outstanding work outside of the unofficial industry capital of New York City.”
Can Data Crunching Help Us Learn What Makes Books Good Or Bad?
“As a literary critic who says he aims to study books without actually reading them, Franco Moretti … [treats them] like data: taking massive digital archives of texts and using computers to scan them for patterns no human reader would have the time, attention or patience to sift out.”
How Much Gay Sex Should A ‘Gay’ Novel Have?
On one hand, many Alan Hollinghurst fans complained about how (relatively) demure his 2012 novel The Stranger’s Child was. On another, as Michael Cunningham observed about his The Hours, “I can’t help but notice that when I finally write a book in which there are no men [redacted], I suddenly win the Pulitzer Prize.”
How To Tell When Someone Is Lying
Their lips are moving? No, it’s not that simple, even though most people tell an average of three (usually tiny) lies in a ten-minute conversation. What’s more, studies indicate that most people’s ability to tell if someone is lyng is barely better than chance.
What Buddhism Really Says About Reincarnation
For Buddhism (as opposed to Hinduism), a better word is rebirth, argues scholar Jay Garfield – and while Buddhism itself doesn’t necessarily require a belief in rebirth, actual Buddhists probably do.
Richard H. Hoggart, 95. Who Helped Save ‘Lady Chatterley’ From The Censor’s Pen
“[The] pioneering British cultural historian … was most widely known outside academia as the star witness for Lady Chatterley’s Lover in a 1960 trial that ended British censorship of that novel.”
Adjunct Professors, Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains! (And They Are)
“[There’s] a national labor movement in which thousands of adjuncts are fighting for change within the higher-education system. In the short-term, adjuncts are demanding a living wage, but they are also proposing long-term solutions to structural problems ailing universities.”
Philadelphia Orchestra Names New Principal Guest And Resident Conductors
“Stéphane Denève, the ebullient French conductor of the corkscrew locks who has been a frequent visitor to the orchestra’s podium, will become principal guest conductor in the fall. Romanian-born Cristian Macelaru, the orchestra’s associate conductor, will take the upgraded title of conductor in residence.”