Small Business $undays

Op-Ed: Kevin Powell on The Sean Bell Tragedy

The Sean Bell Tragedy By Kevin Powell April 25, 2008 I am sick to my stomach and I really do not know what to say right this second. My cell and office phones have been blowing up all day, and people have been emailing me nonstop, to let me know that Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard… [Read more…]

Narmer’s Nook

Harlem Hospital Restores Historic WPA Murals [Columbia News] FDA Plans To Examine Scope Of Complaints About Laser Eye Surgery [Free Internet Press] Study: Humans Faced Near Extinction 70,000 Years Ago [Free Internet Press] Paterson Urged To Revise Rent Control Laws [The New York Sun] Immigrants Sending Food Home [The New York Sun ] Sentences Reduced… [Read more…]

Open House: Marble Court Luxury Rentals

Admittedly most of the focus has been on the Condo and Co-op developments in Harlem, but those readers who are not yet in a position to purchase their little piece of Harlem can still attain the same luxury living available to their home-buying friends. Case in point — Marble Court, 12 brand new luxury rental… [Read more…]

Photos: Last of the Baths

IMG0751, originally uploaded by forota. Many of you old enough to remember the advent of the AIDS epidemic remember that a prime “breeding” place for the spread of the disease was purportedly in gay bath houses. The Mt. Morris Baths didn’t start out as a gay bath house and surprisingly didn’t close as a result… [Read more…]

Fifth Annual East Harlem Arts Festival

Sunday, May 18, 2008 Noon to 5 p.m. East 106th Street / Julia de Burgos Blvd. bet. 3rd and Park Avenues See application form for artists, organizations and food vendors who wish to reserve space. Website: CB11m.org | Download application [pdf] Photo credit:Angelo Rivera/NewYorkCool.com    

Art: Charly Palmer at Canvas Paper and Stone

Charly Palmer, Black Girl, mixed media on canvas, 24″ x 30 © Charly Palmer

East Harlem Arts Symposium

Saturday, May 17, 2008 The Reece School 25 East 104th Street (just blocks from the #6 train stop at 103rd and Lexington) 1 to 4 p.m. Celebrating the historic role played by the arts in defining the East Harlem we know today! Break-Out Sessions: Small Arts Organizations: “Capacity-Building Strategies for the 21st Century” Individual/Freelancing Artists:… [Read more…]

Call to Filmmakers: Chasham Film Festival