Plus a Special Presentation by Sonny Bravo, Johnny Rodriguez, Camilo Azuquita and Jose Alberto "El Canario" Memories of TIPICA 73 present JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" and SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO, together for the first time at Lehman Center celebrating their LATIN GRAMMY for the Best Traditional Tropical Album Tributo A Los Compadres: No Quiero Llanto, and nominated in the 2016 American GRAMMY 's for Best Tropical Latin Album. JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" and SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO will perform on Saturday, April 15th, 2017 at 8pm with a special presentation by Sonny Bravo, Johnny Rodriguez, Camilo Azuquita, and Jose Alberto "El Canario", memories of TIPICA 73 .
Jose Alberto "El Canario"& Septeto Santiaguero More @ Lehman Center
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State Legislature should examine New York's free tuition program
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What happened to the commonplace book? Talk with Jillian Hesse
Students are often found using computers and cellphones to jot down their thoughts but what ever happened to the commonplace book? Today everyone uses computers and cellphones to catalog thoughts and ideas but in the 19th-century, writers chose to take up the commonplace-book tradition by categorizing quotations and information in their own personal notebooks. Bronx Community College of the City University of New York professor Jillian Hesse spoke about the fate of the commonplace book in the 20th-century on Thursday in the Austin Building, in a dynamic talk about literary times and cultures.
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What New Yorkers don't like about the new free tuition scholarship
There's something New Yorkers don't like about the governor's new free tuition scholarship: they're required to live and work in New York after graduating. It's not forever.
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Happy Birthday To Pound Ridge's Ellen Barkin
Born in the Bronx, Barkin won an Emmy for her role in "Before Women Had Wings," and a Tony for her part in "The Normal Heart." Barkin attended Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and then Hunter College, where she majored in history and drama.
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CSI professor wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Tyehimba Jess, College of Staten Island associate professor of English, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry in recognition of his work Olio , a volume of original verses published by Wave Books. Olio , his second collection, was published in April 2016 and was selected as one of the top five poetry books of 2016 by Publisher's Weekly.
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Will free college offer catch fire? NY details raise doubts
In this Saturday, April 15, 2017 photo, people walk across campus at Queens College in New York, where new legislation would allow some students to attend tuition-free. Some higher education experts question whether New York's first-in-the nation free college tuition plan should be a model for other states.
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Kate O'Donovan Cook awarded major grant
Stephen Haller Gallery announced the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has awarded artist Kate O'Donovan Cook a major grant. This generous funding will enable the artist to continue to create new work in her distinctly painterly photographic vision.
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NYU Alumnus Tyehimba Jess Wins Pulitzer Prize
NYU's own Tyehimba Jess, a 2004 alumnus of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, was recently named the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his second book entitled "Olio." Jess's success was accompanied by two more NYU alumni - 2014 Tisch alum Surya Mattu and 2003 GSAS alum Micki McElya, who were both finalists in Jess hails from Detroit and attended the University of Chicago before acquiring his masters in Fine Arts at NYU.
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Is Turkey Becoming a Dictatorship?: Erdogan Claims Victory in Vote to Give President Sweeping Powers
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday's referendum over whether to give sweeping powers to the president, but Turkey's main opposition party is calling for the the referendum results to be tossed out, citing irregularities. According to unofficial results, just 51 percent of voters approved the sweeping change.
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Prison-to-College Programme worth replicating
If Jamaica can replicate Dr Baz Dreisinger's Prison-to-College Pipeline Programme we would have taken a great stride forward in the area of corrections reform. Dr Dreisinger, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, was in Jamaica last week to help local authorities move towards adopting the programme, which essentially exposes incarcerated individuals to tertiary level studies and then funnels them into university when they get out of prison.
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Bernie Sanders' mission for free college on the verge of reality
The scholarship will benefit students attending City University of New York and State University New York schools with two or four-year programs. Recipients must be New York residents for at least one year with an annual income of less than $100,000.
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Borough presidents press de Blasio on free school lunches
A student is served watermelon at the healthy school lunch salad bar at The Queens College School for Math, Science and Technology in Flushing, Queens. All five of the city's borough presidents are pushing Mayor de Blasio to offer free lunch to all public school kids.
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'Impractical Jokers' star Sal Vulcano to host 'CSI's Got Talent'
A dozen of the College of Staten Island's most-talented students will compete to wow your socks off at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26. The sixth annual CSI's Got Talent show will be hosted by none other than the ever-popular Sal Vulcano of truTV's Impractical Jokers and Jay Miller, host of Mid-Evenings with Jay Miller and a comedy producer for NorthSouth Productions. More than 50 students auditioned for a chance to perform and the 12 finalists will compete for the grand prize of $2,250 for first place, $750 for second place, and $250 for third place.
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What dogs actually mean when they look guilty, according to science
What dogs actually mean when they look guilty, according to science Evolution explains why our dogs look down. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2puby0p If you've ever yelled at a dog, you've seen it: A pooch bowed low with big eyes, perhaps surrounded by torn-up couch cushions, ruined food or urine stains.
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Scientists identify neural basis for parasitic cowbird's secret password
If you are raised by other species, then how do you know who you are? Although heterospecific foster parents rear brood parasitic brown-headed cowbird chicks, juvenile cowbirds readily recognize and affiliate with other cowbirds. That's because they have a secret handshake or password.
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UCLA finance official arrested on charges of embezzling from the last college he worked for
Carmine Marino, the finance director at UCLA, is accused of taking $81,000 from his former employer, City University of New York. Carmine Marino, the finance director at UCLA, is accused of taking $81,000 from his former employer, City University of New York.
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UCLA finance official arrested on charges of embezzling from the last college he worked for
Carmine Marino, the finance director at UCLA, is accused of taking $81,000 from his former employer, City University of New York. Carmine Marino, the finance director at UCLA, is accused of taking $81,000 from his former employer, City University of New York.
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Exclusive: Critics, advocates of BQX go head-to-head in heated panel
At a recent conference at Brooklyn Borough Hall, proponents and opponents of Mayor Bill de Blasio's BQX streetcar went head-to-head in an impassioned debate regarding the viability of the project. Shown: The trolley runs through Williamsburg.
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Lighthouse Guild's Blind or Visually Impaired Students to Bring...
The worlds of art, music, and poetry will come together as students, who are blind or visually impaired, from Lighthouse Guild's Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School perform in concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, April 28, from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Inspired by works of art in the Museum's collection, the concert is titled "Reflections Through the Prism of Art and Music."
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