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Next week, stop by the Arthur Avenue Pasticceria, inside the Italian food-mecca that is the Arthur Avenue Retail Market in Belmont, and buy a red velvet cupcake for a good cause. From Monday, April 11 to Friday, April 16, all proceeds earned from the sale of the $3 cupcakes will be donated to the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Yum!
Weather: Cloudy, maybe a little damp, high of 52. To the news! Story of the Day: Jose Rivera Stirring Up TroubleBronx political battle ax and assemblyman, Jose Rivera, didn’t let Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s austere budget pass quietly. Last weekend, during the Puerto Rican/Hispanic caucus’s Somos El Futuro conference in Albany, Rivera, the former Bronx Democratic party boss, ripped Cuomo for criticizing his own party during budget negotiations. For the most part, Bronx Dems have been quiet about expressing their problems with the budget, which included deep cuts to education, health care and social services (and did not include strengthened rent laws or an extension of the so-called “Millionaire’s Tax,” which may have staved off some of these cuts).
Cahtleen Black, Mayor Bloomberg’s highly-controversial choice to be the city’s Schools Chancellor, will step down today, the Times reports. The appointment of Black, a former magazine executive, was widely criticized by school advocates and several Bronx elected officials.Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott will take her place.
Senator Gustavo Rivera holding the Senate Resolution along with Choir Director Lisa Gwasda and the Celia Cruz Choir.State Senator Gustavo Rivera presented the Celia Cruz High School Choir at Lehman College with a Senate Resolution on April 7, for being named the “Best Choir in New York City” as part of the Sing! for Wildlife competition.This is Senator Rivera’s first Resolution that was presented on the floor of the Senate.Expressed in a press release, the Senate recognizes the importance of the performing arts, which act to inspire, enlighten, and unify people from all cultural backgrounds through the power of human expression.
Speaker Jorge Velasquez Paiz from Guatemala standing behind a projected picture of his daughter, Claudina Isabel Velasquez, who was murdered at the age of 19. The Center of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College held “New Pathways to Justice,” a major international conference on strategies to stop the violence taking place against women in Central America, on April 7.The conference featured more than a dozen speakers from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, as well as the United States, representing an array of institutions and organzations, from “cold case” detectives and forensic specialists to prosecutors, judges and human rights advocates. One of the speakers, Jorge Velasquez Paiz gave a emotional speech of the death of his daughter Claudina Isabel Velasquez. He made a chilling statement, “Guatemala is the country where murders can be commended.”
Weather: It looks and feels beautiful out this morning – bright and cool, but not cold – but apparently there’s a 20 percent chance of rain later on. To the news!Story of the Day: ‘Wild Style’ Filmmaker Back in the BronxFilmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who put a spotlight on the Bronx hip-hop and graffiti scene with his seminal documentary, “Wild Style,” is returning to the Boogie Down with his new short film, “Bongo Barbershop.” The new film, which is showing this week during the New York African Film Festival, is set in University Heights, near the cross section of Jerome Avenue and 183rd Street, close to the unofficial birth-place of hip-hop – Kool Herc’s basement in a Sedgwick Avenue building. It focuses on the story of a young MC from Tanzania in search of the “real hip hop” who meets a Bronx legend – Grandmaster Caz, who starred in “Wild Style” – in a barbershop. In the video below from the Daily News, Ahearn talks about his new film.AC_FL_RunContent(‘codebase’,’http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0′,’width’,’485′,’height’,’350′,’title’,’Video Player’,’src’,’http://www.nydailynews.com/swf/video_player/vp_485_single_06092010′, ‘FlashVars’, ’embedCode=o2dDRkMjqV_GoeScn23eSAEDQcV8Hk8g’, ‘quality’,’high’, ‘play’, ‘true’, ‘loop’, ‘true’, ‘allowFullScreen’, ‘true’, ‘pluginspage’,’http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash’,’movie’,’http://www.nydailynews.com/swf/video_player/vp_485_single_06092010′ ); <img src=”http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png” style=”background-color: #b2b2b2; height: 350px; width: 485px; ” class=”BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder” id=”BLOGGER_object_0″ data-original-id=”BLOGGER_object_0″ /> Quick Hits:After rejecting a plea deal, Bronx health clinic founder and ex-State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. and his son pleaded not guilty to embezzlement and fraud charges in Brooklyn yesterday.
It’s a political practice as well-established as candidates kissing babies: a local legislator shows up at a senior center or an elementary school, giant check in hand, to announce that he’ll be funding a daily meals program or buying new uniforms for the spring soccer team.There’s a photo-op and everyone leaves feeling
More bad health news for the Boogie Down: a report released last week that ranks the health outcomes of almost every county in the country found the Bronx to be the unhealthiest in New York State, coming in 62 out of
The team spearheading relief efforts at Kittay House.
A minute and a half into the above clip, you’ll see a passionate and touching performance of the Puerto Rican national anthem turned in by Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera at last weekend’s Somos El Futuro conference in Albany. Seriously. Not bad, right? Next stop: Albany Idol.According to Rivera’s communications director Conchita Cruz, the new state senator in the 33rd District is an avid singer who won an award for his killer karaoke work over the weekend. (He was also honored for pushing transparency legislation this year, Cruz said.
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