@BYTES1GHz Tech Brief: Nerds Love Holograms, Invent Ways To Touch Them

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Picture 1 .@BYTES1GHz is a single serving of undigested tech for the unfocused and/or unconcerned. Don’t be disappoint. Like. Enjoy. Today’s Tech Brief: Nerds Love Holograms, Invent Ways To Touch Them #WhutItDo: Well this is awesome: If I could read Japanese, I’d try to summarize what these nerds are doing with all those electronics and funky boxes
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Interview with “Getting the Business” Star Susan Louise O’Connor

Written by Doug Strassler on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Photo by Jon Kandel Just last fall, New York Press named Susan Louise O’Connor one of the city’s best kept theater secrets. Slowly but surely, that secret’s getting out: O’Connor is currently playing the role of a secretary with secrets of her own in the new Victor L. Cahn play. (Cahn also co-stars in the two-hander, currently playing at
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Doug Strassler’s Guide to the Fringe Festival

Written by Doug Strassler on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Mo Rocca, Rachel Dratch, Sean Dugan by Thom Kaine While many plan vacations in mid-August, New York theater lovers know to stay put for the annual New York International Fringe Festival, a two week-long compilation of live shows spanning a diverse array of subjects, genres, and formats. Check out these official New York Press picks:   All My Children:  Nope, Susan Lucci isn’t looking
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Sports Geek and The Shameful Debate: Who’s Better, The Dream Team or 2012′s Club?

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One NY Press writer dives into the much-hated question by Nick Gallinelli Many sportswriters and fans would scoff at my mention of this. In fact, most of them would probably lose respect for me and tease me until I cried. ‘Which team had Michael Jordan?’ is what most of them would say, and that’d probably
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One Queensbridge Community Vigilante Knows How to Raise a Stink with Authorities

Written by Alissa Fleck on . Posted in Blog, NY Press Exclusive, Posts, Uncategorized

Raymond Normandeau, press secretary of the Queensbridge Houses Tenants Council in Queens, was tired of the conditions in the Queensbridge housing project where he has lived since 1973, and decided it was time to engage in a little community activism. While he may no longer be a member of the Astoria ambulance corps (or small
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Where the Upcoming Olympics Will Be Held; And How These Cities Are Prepping for the Games

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The locations for upcoming Olympic games I recently read an article about the effect hosting the Olympic Games would have had on New York if it had indeed won its candidacy. According to the article, if we had, the Jets would probably be sharing a stadium with the Mets rather than the Giants. The Knicks,
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