Wednesday, September 20, 2017

10 Things to Do in NYC Now and other top stories.

  • 10 Things to Do in NYC Now

    10 Things to Do in NYC Now
    10 Things to Do in NYC NowIt’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. Here’s a sampling of cultural highlights this weekend and over the week ahead.The singer Michael Mwenso at last year’s Montana Folk Festival, in Butte.CreditHayes NovichJazzVoices Raised in Defiance, and in Praise‘Michael Mwenso’s Sacred Protest Songs: From Africa to America’ at Le Poisson RougeA fervid vocalist and full-bore entertainer, Mr. Mwenso has assembled a special three-part program for this concert. Taki..
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  • Shanghai's Subway Looks to New York, but Not for Everything

    Shanghai's Subway Looks to New York, but Not for Everything
    Workers and MachinesWhat really separates the Shanghai subway, and those of other Chinese cities, from many Western counterparts is the speed of construction.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has used six giant tunnel-boring machines in recent years across the subway network. Shanghai has 60 such devices working on just one of the many new lines it is building or extending.“Our working progress is faster than in Western countries — maybe we only take one or two years to finish” a task, ..
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  • Trump Says Military Is 'Locked and Loaded' and North Korea Will ...

    Trump Says Military Is 'Locked and Loaded' and North Korea Will ...
    “It takes a combined message there if we’re going to get effective movement out of the regime in North Korea. I think the president’s made it clear he prefers a diplomatic solution,” Mr. Tillerson said, standing next to Mr. Trump. “What the president’s doing is trying to support our efforts by ensuring North Korea understands what the stakes are.”Still, even as Mr. Trump seemed to be slightly lowering the temperature with North Korea, he opened a new front by volunteering that he was contemplat..
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  • Police and Protesters Mobilize for Trump's Return to His Own Home

    Police and Protesters Mobilize for Trump's Return to His Own Home
    Protesters are undeterred, Mr. Quinn said, even though Mr. Trump was known to stay sealed in his tower when he was a private citizen, commuting between his penthouse and his offices on a lower floor and sometimes not leaving the building for days at a time. It seems unlikely that he will spend much time outdoors, given the immense security efforts necessary to protect a sitting president in the middle of Midtown Manhattan.“He might not be able to see us,” said Mr. Quinn, who works in the publis..
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  • Trump Alarms Venezuela With Talk of a 'Military Option'

    Trump Alarms Venezuela With Talk of a 'Military Option'
    Venezuelan officials did not confirm the White House’s account of the phone call. They seemed shocked that Mr. Trump had mentioned their country — troubled for weeks by protests and charges of election fraud — alongside a nuclear-armed North Korea. The Venezuelan communications minister, Ernesto Villegas, in a television interview, called Mr. Trump’s remark “an unprecedented threat to national sovereignty.”Mr. Padrino did not indicate how Venezuela would officially respond to the comments by M..
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  • In China, Facebook Tests the Waters With a Stealth App

    In China, Facebook Tests the Waters With a Stealth App
    Facebook hopes it can learn and potentially assimilate those ways. Yet the social network was banned in China in 2009, followed by its photo-sharing app Instagram in 2014, and its messaging app WhatsApp was partially blocked last month. While the company has more than two billion users around the world, Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has often asked where its next billion users will come from. Now Colorful Balloons gives the Silicon Valley company a way to see how Chine..
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  • NYC Weather Forecast: Rainy Weekend Ahead, Thunderstorms ...

    NYC Weather Forecast: Rainy Weekend Ahead, Thunderstorms ...
    NEW YORK, NY — New Yorkers will want to bring an umbrella or rain jacket out with them tonight and Saturday.Rain is expected to fall late Friday night and into Saturday, putting a damper on outdoor plans you may have for the weekend."The chance of showers will increase with showers becoming likely overnight into Saturday morning, especially along the coast," the National Weather Service says. "A few thunderstorms are possible during this time as well. Unsettled conditions will continue through..
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  • Finally, a Well-Staged 'Don Giovanni' in New York

    Finally, a Well-Staged 'Don Giovanni' in New York
    Photo Tassis Christoyannis, center, in “Don Giovanni” at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in 2011. Credit Ruby Washington/The New York Times To be an opera lover is to live a life of constant transit between two poles, ecstasy and despair, with most of the year spent in the latter location.It’s not like we ask for much: only perfection. We want a conductor whose reading of “Parsifal” is never for an instant less than gripping; a Norma who can both sing “Casta Div..
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  • Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin

    Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin
    On Twitter, many initially assumed that quote was from The Onion, the ripped-from-the-headlines satirical newspaper that has long mocked presidents and politicians by exaggerating their better-known traits. But even the cutting-edge Onion has a hard time keeping up with today’s head-spinning news events.Speaking to reporters again on Friday, Mr. Trump said his comment from the day before was only meant to be sarcastic. But he still offered no criticism of Mr. Putin, and Mr. Trump’s press secret..
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  • These Streets Will Be Closed for President Trump's 3-Day Trip to NYC

    These Streets Will Be Closed for President Trump's 3-Day Trip to NYC
    What to KnowThe three-day visit expected to begin Sunday marks Donald Trump's first trip to Trump Tower since inaugurationThe president has been spending time at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf courseStreet closures and security checkpoints are planned for Midtown, and the NYPD said people should avoid the area or expect heavy congestionThe NYPD says drivers will face street closures, security checkpoints and heavy congestion in Midtown during President Trump's three-day trip to New York City n..
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New York Today: Plan B for Penn Station Commuters .Brawl breaks out as plane taxis to the gate .
New York Today: Mosquito Season .Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain ... .

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