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Elections

Oh, Right, Special Election in Queens Today: David Weprin vs. Bob Friedrich

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 10:58AM
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We almost forgot: there's a special election in the 24th Assembly District in Queens today. Heavily favored is David Weprin, the former councilmember who ran for the Democratic nomination for comptroller last year; this assembly seat was his brother Mark's before he took over Donald's seat on the council. Their old man held the seat previously, so running for it is a kind of family tradition.

Weprin's Republican opponent, Bob Friedrich, is a registered Democrat, and is often described as a "civic leader," which means he's never won anything, though he has served as "president of the board of Glen Oaks Village, New York City's largest garden-apartment cooperative development" for 15 years.

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Mets Lower Outfield Wall, Will Still Suck

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 10:35AM
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metspitch.jpgThe Yankees built a new park with closer and shorter outfield fences, hit a lot of homers and won the World Series. The Mets built their new park with reasonable distances and higher walls ("they want it to be as neutral as possible," a designer told the Times), and look what happened to them. They hit 95 home runs last year, the fewest in the majors.

It's too late to bring the fences in, but the Mets have given up on neutrality and are cutting down the centerfield wall from sixteen feet to eight.

Unfortunately the wall can't be raised for opposing teams, who actually hit more homers at Citi Field than they did at Shea the year before. But at least when opponents tee off on one of the Mets' many injured pitchers, it'll make for a lively, high-scoring event, which is about the best we can hope for, as we no longer expect the Mets to win games.

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Video: Dancing Artworks from the Met Museum

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 10:22AM
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YMMV and maybe it's a shade long, but we liked this dance animation made from objets d'art at the Met Museum by one Nina Paley.

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Larry Seabrook to Surrender Today on Fraud, Extortion Charges: Times

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 9:45AM
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Authorities have been looking long and hard at Bronx councilmember Larry Seabrook for a while now. Back in 2008 the city denied $887K funds to his proposed Bronx African-American Chamber of Commerce, the offices of which abutted Seabrook's campaign office; the Times later reported the Feds were investigating Seabrook. Later the councilman was found to have received rent reimbursement far in excess of his actual rent.

Today the Times reports that Seabrook is expected to turn himself in to face 13 federal counts of money laundering, extortion fraud, receipt of an unlawful gratuity. …More >>

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Downfall

David Paterson Controversy Recalls Another Scandal-Plagued Governor (No, Not That One)

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 9:09AM
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While everyone still jaws about the allegedly forthcoming David Paterson scandal, the Bowery Boys look back to historical precedent for removal of a New York governor -- not to Eliot Spitzer, but to William Sulzer.

The Boys' headline is "New York governor resigns in disgrace (in 1913)!" though Sulzer, a former Speaker of the New York state assembly and U.S. Congressman from the Lower East Side, was actually removed by vote of the legislature for filching campaign funds for his own personal use.

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Crime and Punishment

Bernie Kerik, Cry Baby? Read Tough Cop's Email -- and Weep!

By Tom Robbins, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 8:22AM
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Who knew that Bernie Kerik, the bullet-headed tough cop now headed to prison, was such a whiner? A really good whiner too, as proved by the latest submission by federal prosecutors to the White Plains judge who will sentence Kerik next week to somewhere north of 27 months.

Prosecutors cite a chunk of a July, 1999 email in which Kerik's fine whine includes a nice poetic touch, telling his then-high flying buddy, Larry Ray, about having to "beg, borrow and suck dick" to buy and rehab his new Riverdale apartment...

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The Money Trail

Mike Bloomberg #4 Among U.S. Givers: Slate

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 7:25AM
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Slate made a list of the top philanthropists in America, and right behind Bill and Melinda Gates at number four was Mayor Bloomberg. The Mayor doled out $254 million to support the arts, make car crashes less deadly, etc.

New York magazine had reviewed Bloomberg's prodigious giving in 2005, and it gets brought up from time to time -- as when Bloomberg met with a bunch of other rich people to discuss philanthropic strategies, which some observers considered an Illuminati plot. Bloomberg received a Carnegie Medal for his giving last October.

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Medical

Mumps Outbreak Hits Suburbs; Summer Camp Blamed (Updated)

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 7:04AM
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CNN reports that about 1,000 people have recently caught mumps in the greater metropolitan area. Mumps? Wasn't that eradicated a long time ago? Not quite; vaccines aren't 100 percent effective and little outbreaks have been seen elsewhere in the States in recent years.

The local epidemic is thought to have originated in a Jewish summer camp in August, where a kid brought it over from England. It has since spread among Orthodox Jews in Rockland and Orange County.

Update: Our own Julia had the lowdown on this back in December.

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Urban Wildlife

Coyotes at Columbia Latest Grim Portent of Nature's Wrath

By Roy Edroso, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 6:41AM
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Coyotes were spotted on the Columbia University campus Sunday. An Ohio State expert says of the urban coyote incusions, "It's not uncommon at all, and it's going to increase in frequency."

Texas A&M students used to get attacked by wolves, but that was in the 19th Century and they were in the middle of a prairie.

We warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you...

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Clip Job

The Grateful Dead: Trying to Figure Out this Odd SF Rock Band

By Tony Ortega, Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 6:00AM
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
April 13, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 26

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By Richard Goldstein

A good album, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound at first fade as subtle ballads emerge. Great blasts of noise vanish as haunting melodies appear. A line suddenly hits home...a phrase...a shade of meaning, and the whole album becomes something else again.

The shape of a good album changes constantly. A review can never be anything more than a synthesis of moments. When technical trickery wears thin, and novelty loses its appeal is the time to evaluate a piece of work. The test of time doesn't mean very much; repetition is all. The good albums stick; the great ones transmigrate.

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