Ismael Rivera

Thanksgiving is the opening shebang to a whole holiday of festivities in town. Read More

The United States, one of the few countries likely to recognize post-coup elections in Honduras, will watch the upcoming polls with "great interest," the US State Department said Thursday. Read More

Ubaldo Francisco Padilla better known to his family and friends as "Frank", passed away Nov. 22, 2009. Read More

Alabama's Brandon Deaderick (95) hopes to have something to say to former teammate Chris Todd during the Iron Bowl. (The Birmingham News / Mark Almond) Everybody's talking about the Iron Bowl, wearing the gear of either Auburn or Ala­bama and wanting to know who is going to the game and which team will win. Read More

When the remains of savagely murdered 19-year-old gay activist and college student Jorge Steven López Mercado were discovered in Puerto Rico on November 13 after he had been dismembered, decapitated, and burned in an apparent hate crime, shock and anger spread like wildfire across the United States, burning up the gay blogosphere and leading to vigils, demonstrations, and memorials all over the country, from New York City to Chicago, from Miami and Dallas to San Francisco, as well as in San Juan. "Jorge Steven was the greatest, very loving, a very pure soul," Puerto Rico's best-known gay activist, Pedro Julio Serrano, a friend of the victim, told Gay City News from the home of the murdered lad's family in the small town of Toa Alta, where López lived with his parents and nine-year-old brother. Read More

Today's daily interview from the random questionnaire offered to any and all bands comes from Brendan Rivera . Read More

He's still not 30, and already Albert Pujols is nearly halfway to Barry Bonds. Read More

Microsoft combed through the code after a blogger raised concerns that it violated the GNU General Public License version 2. Read More

The Kingsbridge Armory cliff-hanger will keep dangling well into next month, after a failed attempt yesterday to reach a compromise on the living wage issue there. Read More

Here's the invitation to the Bronx Democratic Party's upcoming holiday fundraiser with "special guest" Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Read More