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We’re still in the Fourth of July spirit around the 250th birthday of our nation, hooked in particular by one grand American historian’s question to it: is the United States on the road to a ...

The post After the Fireworks appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

Photo from last year by Stacie Joy 

 

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  It was a much different mood at Mee Noodle Shop & Grill this afternoon. Just days after staff told us the longtime Chinese restaurant at 223 First Ave. between 13th and 14th Streets would close on July 15, there was reason to...

We've been enjoying the rotating art and photo exhibits at Ninth Street Espresso on 10th Street, and the next one opens tomorrow. 

Photo by Stacie Joy  Another independent neighborhood gathering space is preparing to close.  Francis Kite Club, the hybrid bar, social club and arts venue at 40 Avenue C between Third and Fourth Street, announced yesterday that it will close after service on Aug...

A rendering of Bleecker Bell 

If you've been meaning to visit the expanded (as of March) New Museum, Fridays this summer offer a less-expensive excuse.  The museum at 235 Bowery at Prince Street is offering $10 admission every Friday through Aug. 28 as part of its Summer Fridays promotion. The discounted admission is available all day, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is less than half the regular $25 adult ticket.  Meanwhile, here's a close-up view of the plaza outside of Sarah Lucas' VENUS VICTORIA (up since May 12), the inaugural public-art commission for the expanded Bowery campus.  The sculpture is to celebrate women claiming space in public life ... (photo below by Stacie Joy)

An extension in the works for Hell Ride on the multipurpose courts/TF in Tompkins Square Park...

EVG photo from 2009  A new exhibition opening tomorrow in Chinatown celebrates a decade of one of New York City's most recognizable graffiti tags.  Blankmag Books, 17 Eldridge St., north of Division Street, is hosting the release of "six letters four numbers," a...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy H/T EVG reader Luke UPDATED 7/10 A happy update: Mee Noodle Shop is no longer closing. According to staff, after this post, the owner and landlord reached an agreement to lower the monthly rent, allowing the longtime restaurant to remain ...

Photo by Stacie Joy 

Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes "significant harm" and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs. The submission was filed days before a U.S. congressional hearing signaled that American site blocking legislation is closer than ever to introduction. Early drafts of the American plans included DNS blocking, which makes Google's EU comments even more relevant.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Pearson's anti-piracy vendor inadvertently used a DMCA notice to take down the official GitHub code repository of Pearson's own best-selling author, Paul Deitel. The prominent computer science educator pushed back, noting that the sender has "no idea of the damage they're doing" by taking down critical educational materials, requesting GitHub to restore access.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Jackson Pollock, Untitled (2), state II of III, 1944 #museumofmodernart #museumarchive

“The elaborate funeral rites for Iran’s slain supreme leader that drew huge crowds of mourners offered a show of strength by the country’s surviving leadership as key senior officials boldly emerged into public view for the first time since the war. And in its posture toward the United States, Tehran also now seems emboldened,” the […]

Axios: “Johnson presided over the ninth failed rule vote of his less-than-three-year-long speakership last week, this one tanked by 13 of his members.” ”Frustration in the conference with a small band of conservatives who keep using procedural rule votes — once a rubber stamp for the majority — as leverage to force action on unrelated […]

“For four years, Russia has bet on outlasting Ukraine in a war of attrition. Now, as Kyiv’s drones inflict growing damage on both Russia’s army and oil industry, Moscow is finding out that time isn’t necessarily on its side,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion force is making ever-smaller gains at […]