Emerging Artists Theatre has announced the line-up for the second week of their bi-annual New Work Series. The three-week festival runs March 21 to April 10 and showcases new musicals, dance pieces, solo shows and plays. Over 50 productions will be presented.
As a presidential candidate with an outside chance at the 2020 Democratic nomination, becoming a media darling seemed to be Andrew Yang’s primary electoral strategy. He gleefully gnawed on a turkey leg at the Iowa State Fair, pounded milkshakes, and anointed members of the “Yang Gang” with whipped cream. While he didn’t pick up the nomination or a Cabinet seat, like fellow candidate and conspicuous consumer Pete Buttigieg it worked in a sense: Undecided voters wanted to have a beer with Yang more than any other candidate, and his main policy proposal, a $1,000-a-month universal basic income, has vastly outshone his candidacy.
Humanity forward, but pedestrians backward?
New mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang kicked off his campaign on Thursday with a four-borough transit-only tour, but along the way suggested pedestrians better stay out of some streets in a Yang administration.
Yang’s final stop of his tour was in Brownsville, where he took a short walking tour with Assembly Member Latrice Walker. Streetsblog asked Yang how he would how he would improve on traffic safety and Vision Zero in Brownsville, where between 2018 and 2020 there were 4,870 crashes injuring 1,967 people and killing seven people, to bring the neighborhood’s crash numbers down to somewhere like Park Slope, where there were 46 percent fewer crashes resulting in 73 percent fewer injuries (and no deaths) over the period.
reporter: but polly and ila were just fine. we have no way of contacting isabelle. she s the woman who gave you her coat. gave her coat that covered me. and now you ve named your baby the middle name after isabelle. it was meant to be ila polly but it s now i la isabelle. but we re very happy with it. reporter: the mccourts are now trying to find isabelle to thank her and replace her coat. so this way she s a real new yorker. she was born on the streets of new york. that s very true. and it s my understanding that they may have found isabelle now and there ll be some sort of reuniting of everyone together. by the way, we re supposed to talk to polly on the phone but we were unable to get her just right now. in the meantime, pope francis with his very own mini me. check this out. how this little guy got to meet the beloved leader of the world s catholics.