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Diners enjoy a final meal at Carnegie Deli. |
Levine’s father, Milton Parker, bought the business in 1976 and retired in 2002. He turned control over to son-in-law Sandy Levine, who wed Marian in 1991. She took over in 2014, when the couple divorced. |
The restaurant will close at midnight Friday. |
“I’m gonna miss it. It’s been a foundation. It’s been the go-to spot after the shows,” said Jeffrey Mills, 49, of Manhattan, who stood on line waiting to get his last bite of the landmark Friday. |
In the world of Hollywood, nailing down a script can be difficult for any movie. There are plenty of stages a script must go through before it can reach actors and fans, and DC Entertainment is being very careful with its upcoming slate of stories. From Aquaman to The Flash, the studio is carefully pouring over the fil... |
Today, Batman News took it upon themselves to reach out to noted Forbes reported Justin Kroll about the debacle. The journalist, who first broke the news of Ben Affleck’s directorial departure from The Batman, then responded with sources of his own. |
Of course, this new report by Kroll and Batman News conflicts with musings brought up by another well-known industry insider. Forbes’ Mark Hughes published a lengthy piece breaking down The Batman’s current status the other day, and his sources reported a wide range of responses. The journalist wrote that The Batman ma... |
If the most recent script has been approved, fans can breathe a sigh of relief about The Batman and its status. Affleck’s departure from the film’s director chair left many shaken, and DC Comics diehards want to have faith in the future of the DC Extended Universe. So far, neither Warner Bros. or DC Films have commente... |
So, what do you think about this back-and-forth with The Batman? Sound off in the comments below! And, if you are excited for the flick, then make sure to signal as such in our anticipation ranks below! |
The battle for the coveted Lombardi Trophy will be livestreamed this year. |
NBC and the NFL will team up to stream the Super Bowl and several other football games live over the Internet. |
The unprecedented broadcasts will mean the championship, the league's Pro Bowl and NBC's wild-card playoff games will be able to be viewed on computers, mobile phones and other web-connected devices. |
The games will be streamed online at NBCSports.com and NFL.com through SNF Extra, which features an HD broadcast, DVR-style controls, additional camera angles, in-game highlights, live statistics and interactive elements. NBCSports.com and the NFL have streamed games online since 2008 with SNF Extra, NBC Sports' exclus... |
“We are especially excited to now bring our unique and innovative SNF Extra video experience to the NFL playoffs, Pro Bowl, and Super Bowl,” said Rick Cordella, vice president of NBC Sports Digital Media. |
NFL Mobile from Verizon will stream the broadcasts for the first time on a mobile platform, the NFL announced. |
“We are pleased to work with our partners NBC and Verizon to bring our fans more ways to watch their favorite sport during their favorite time of the year,” said Hans Schroeder, NFL senior vice president of media strategy and development. |
The Super Bowl is Feb. 5 in Indianapolis. The game is annually by far the biggest attraction on television, with last season's Packers-Steelers matchup drawing a record U.S. audience for any show with 111 million viewers. |
In 1999, Macedonia was overwhelmed by the rapid influx of Kosovar Albanians who were forced to flee abuses committed by Serbian and Yugoslav forces during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. At its peak in May, more than 250,000 refugees were in the tiny country of two million people, posing a serious challange to Macedoni... |
Despite promises, the international community was slow to provide the Macedonian government with the help it needed to deal with the crisis. NATO and the U.N. were clearly not prepared to deal with the large number of refugees. |
The Macedonian government often violated its obligations under international law to provide refuge and fair treatment for those fleeing well documented persecution and abuse. The government closed the border to refugees on a number of occasions, forcing thousands of ethnic Albanians back into Kosovo and leaving thousan... |
From the moment the first refugees arrived in late March, the Macedonian government understandably demanded rapid assistance from the international community, as well as promises that refugees in Macedonia would be relocated to third countries. There was considerable fear in the government, overwhelmed by the crisis, a... |
By early April, as many as 65,000 refugees were trapped in Blace, a "no-mans land" between the borders of Kosovo and Macedonia, waiting to enter Macedonia. Traumatized refugees were held in alarming conditions, with no shelter and little humanitarian relief or medical assistance. International aid agencies were granted... |
In the late night of April 3, most of the refugees in this area were forcibly cleared by the Macedonian authorities without advance notice. Refugees were provided no information about where they were being taken and did not give their consent to be moved. International aid workers were apparently not informed about pla... |
Refugees reported cases of harassment, intimidation, and violence during their stay in the Macedonian camps. Armed Macedonian police officers guarded some of the camps and occasionally abused the refugees. Movement outside some of the camps was restricted. |
Problems remained even after most refugees had returned to Kosovo in June. In September, the Macedonian government temporarily denied entry into the country for approximately 450 Roma from Kosovo, who were fleeing revenge harassment and attacks by ethnic Albanians. Many Kosovar Albanians view Roma in Kosovo as having b... |
Aside from the treatment of refugees, an important human rights issue continued to be the government's treatment of non-ethnic Macedonian citizens, especially ethnic Albanians, who make up at least 25 percent of the population. As in previous years, Albanians, Roma, Turks, Serbs, Macedonian Muslims, Bulgarians and Vlac... |
The new government elected in October 1998, made up of the formerly opposition Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO-DPMNE), Democratic Alternative, and Democratic Party of Albanians, did initiate some improvements during the year, such as an effort to include Albanian as an official language and more wi... |
After initially refusing, President Kiro Gligorov signed an Amnesty Law on February 6 that released approximately 900 prisoners, including the ethnic Albanian mayors of Tetovo and Gostivar, Alajdin Demiri and Rufi Osmani respectively. Both men were convicted in 1997 for raising Albanian state flags in front of their to... |
State discrimination against the country's sizable Roma population continued as in previous years. In addition to some cases of police abuse, Roma experienced prejudicial treatment in education and employment. A government working group was established to discuss possible revisions to Macedonia's 1996 citizenship law t... |
On July 8, the government lifted a fifty-year ban on books in the Bulgarian language. The issue of language has been a long-standing point of contention between Macedonia and Bulgaria, since Bulgaria claims that Macedonian is just a dialect of Bulgarian. Some books from Albania had also been confiscated under this law ... |
A number of human rights issues crossed ethnic lines and affected all of Macedonia's citizens. As in previous years, police abuse continued to be a problem, although there were fewer reports of police using excessive force. Police still engaged in the illegal behavior of conducting "informative talks"-summoning a perso... |
In December 1998, the Constitutional Court struck down several disputed articles of Macedonia's 1997 Law on Religious Communities and Groups, including the ban on "religious work and rituals" by unregistered groups. Some articles remained controversial, such as the need for a permit to hold religious events in public. ... |
Freedom of the press was generally respected in 1999, as many private radio and television stations and printed media operated throughout the country. In December 1998, the car of Simeon Marjanov, owner and manager of TV Iris in Stip, was destroyed by fire. Marjanov claimed that he had received phone threats prior to t... |
Human rights groups, such as the Macedonian Helsinki Committee, reported no government restrictions on their work in 1999. Many foreign human rights organizations, governmental and non-governmental, were active in Macedonia between March and June, interviewing Kosovar Albanian refugees about war crimes in Kosovo. |
After Macedonia's recognition of Taiwan in January, the Chinese government exercised its Security Council veto on the extension of the U.N. presence in Macedonia. On February 28, the mandate of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Mission in Macedonia (UNPREDEP) came to an end. |
Beginning in March, however, the U.N. was once again very active in Macedonia, with UNHCR struggling to deal with the large-scale influx of Kosovar Albanian refugees. UNHCR's response was initially slow and poorly coordinated since the organization was unprepared for such a large and sudden exodus. In addition, it did ... |
In May, the U.N. Committee Against Torture reviewed Macedonia's periodic report, noting that Macedonia should adopt a specific crime of torture into its domestic laws. The U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was active in Macedonia between March and June collecting information about war cri... |
The OSCE maintained a small permanent presence in Macedonia, known as the Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, which observed internal and external threats to the country's stability. During the NATO bombing against Yugoslavia, a large OSCE team was in the country to help register refugees and take statements on human ... |
The OSCE high commissioner on national minorities continued his work in Macedonia with an ongoing emphasis on higher education for ethnic minorities. He visited the country in May during the refugee crisis and called on the international community to provide immediate assistance in order to avoid further destablization... |
OSCE monitors observed the October/November 1998 parliamentary elections and the presidential elections on October 31, 1999, both of which were considered free and fair. |
Macedonia was a crucial base of operations for NATO during its air campaign in Yugoslavia, although offensives were never launched from the country. As of October, 7,000 NATO forces, members of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), were still in the country providing logistical support to the mission in Kosovo. NATO stated that it ... |
During the Kosovo refugee crisis, NATO provided much needed transportation supplies, logistical support, and assistance to set up refugee camps in the country, which were later turned over to UNHCR and non-governmental relief organizations. |
In its six-month assessment of Macedonia's compliance with the criteria of the E.U.'s "Regional Approach" to relations with the Balkan states, the European Commission described Macedonia's performance as "exemplary." Citing Macedonia's cooperation with NATO, as well as human rights improvements, the E.U. determined to ... |
Macedonia remained subject to the Parliamentary Assembly's monitoring procedure, with a debate on the rapporteur's report expected in January 2000. In May, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its first report on Macedonia, noting improvements in the representation of ethnic Albanians... |
As in previous years, the United States maintained close relations with the Macedonian government, even though three new political parties were in power. Mutual concerns centered on the Kosovo crisis and Macedonia's role in the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, which made the U.S. government hesitant to criticize the M... |
In September, the U.S. State Department issued its first annual report on freedom of religion, which highlighted some problems with Macedonia's Law on Religious Communities and Groups (see above) and the ongoing restrictions against the Serbian Orthodox Church. |
The U.S. government gave an estimated $34.5 million in assistance to Macedonia in 1999, more than half of it for military training or equipment. Another $9 million was provided for economic reform. |
When she woke up on Sept. 25, Schmidt was her usual 129 lbs. A 5’7″ athlete who played field hockey and softball at her private school in New York City, she was used to being among the fittest girls in any crowd. Now wearing a fat suit and latex makeup, she would be among the heaviest. Schmidt agreed to wear the disgui... |
Fat Like Me producer Jessica Stedman Guff, a friend of Schmidt’s mother, Wendy, a private investigator, tapped Ali for the job. Guff, 43, had watched behind-the-scenes footage on the Shallow Hal DVD and heard Gwyneth Paltrow relate how poorly she was treated when she ventured off the set in her fat suit. Says Guff: “I ... |
The next morning she got her wish. “This is Ali,” said the biology teacher (who, like all the staff, was in on the setup), introducing a slim girl no one recognized. “She was here yesterday.” The reaction: gasps all around. |
Once the seat of an influential tradition of Indian classical music, Kairana has become a metaphor for the exodus of Hindus. |
Rediff.com's Archana Masih visits the town in Western UP to discover there is more to Kairana than palayan (Hindu exodus). |
IMAGE: Gurjar farmers smoke the hookah at the Kalsyan panchayat in Kairana. |
The Congress election slogans are hurriedly painted over, but the message is still easily visible. |
It reads '5 saal UP behaal' -- attacking the Samajwadi Party's five year rule -- and can be spotted on walls and fields while travelling through Western Uttar Pradesh. |
Obviously, these must have come up before the Congress-SP alliance was forged -- but the painter given the job to erase them has done some careless brush work because the tag line is easily readable everywhere. |
Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav came into the UP battle arena as foes, but became friends after that '5 saal UP behaal' slogan was plastered on the walls. |
"Akhilesh-Rahul are not fighting for communalism, they are fighting for a better India," says Nahid Hasan, the sitting SP MLA from Kairana, fighting the election for a second term in the state assembly. |
"Has the BJP ever talked about any big change here? Every time they make a speech they talk about H-M (Hindu-Muslim) and palayan," the young politician adds. |
IMAGE: Nahid Hasan, the sitting SP MLA, with constituents at his home in Kairana. Hasan won a 2014 by-election by 1,000 votes against the BJP candidate. |
Palayan is a commonly heard word associated with Kairana. |
The small town, which is easy to get around in e-rickshaws, costing Rs 10 per person, entered the national news consciousness after BJP MP Hukum Singh raised the issue of the exodus of Hindu families. |
Yogi Adityanath, the BJP MP from Gorakhpur, recently compared it with the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir. |
"Hukum Singh gave a list of 346 people. There was an investigation which revealed that only 6 families have left. One or two members from those families are out in other cities for various reasons. Some Muslim families have also left. The main reason is rozgaar (jobs)," says Hasan, 27, who defeated BJP candidate Anil S... |
His grandfather and Hukum Singh, 78, were once good friends. |
"In fact, Hukum Singh himself is a case of palayan. He comes here every five years, and cannot be found in between elections," adds Nahid, who spent 7 years as a student in Australia and says he only has Hindu friends. |
IMAGE: People -- mostly men -- wait in the hall to meet Nahid Hasan at around noon. |
We had made our way, past a masjid, through a small gully that led to Nahid Hasan's house. It was 11.30 and there were around 30 men waiting to meet the MLA. |
Bidi smoke hung in the air on a dull, cloudy day. |
The door behind the hall was locked from the inside and people crowded around it, waiting for it to open. "He is having breakfast," they were told. The door opened periodically to let in certain people and shut again. |
Before we were shown through the locked door after waiting in an ante room, a group of men spoke about the young MLA and the Samajwadi Party's report card. |
Education is weak in the district and girls are unable to continue their studies because there is no girls' college. |
A degree college has already been approved by the state government and now awaits the central government's approval. |
At his Kairana election rally, Akhilesh said he would put up a Rs 300 crore to Rs 400 crore factory here. |
Kairana has had no history of Hindu-Muslim tension. |
"There is nothing like what these politicians have said about Kairana. Hindus and Muslims are living together, they need each other you know, you cannot separate them and live in this country," says Nahid, after listening to the problem of a mother and daughter who had come to see him. |
Standing in the room is also his mother, speaking to some women. |
IMAGE: Anil Singh Chauhan is the Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate. His brother Satish Singh, above, is furious that the BJP denied Anil a ticket. |
Hasan, whose parents have both been MPs in the Lok Sabha, is locked in a three cornered contest with the BJP's Mriganka Singh, Kairana MP Hukum Singh's daughter, and Anil Singh Chauhan of the Rashtriya Lok Dal. |
Chauhan, Hukum Singh's nephew, left the BJP to join the RLD after the BJP chose Mriganka over him. Chauhan had narrowly lost the 2014 by-election to Nahid Hasan. |
What is also on display in the Kairana political feud is the Indian political tradition of parivarvad (dynastic politics) among its leading contestants. |
Upset that his younger brother Anil Chauhan was denied a BJP ticket, Satish Singh Chauhan is furious. |
"My brother was the most deserving candidate, but the BJP leadership has given tickets to the children and grandchildren of its MPs from UP -- Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh, Hukum Singh," he says. |
"Hukum Singh is an MP from Kairana, he now wants his daughter to be an MLA. Parivarwad se duniya nahi chalti hai (the world does not revolve around dynasty politics)," he says, denying that the uncle and nephew relationship was also tantamount to parivarwad. |
Satish Singh Chauhan maintains that Hukum Singh raised the issue of the Hindu exodus to get a ticket for his daughter and asks why he did not bring it up in the state assembly though he was a 7-time MLA. |
"There would have been no problem about palayan if Hukum Singh had taken action when 1 or 2 cases had happened in the beginning, but he is never available here," says Chauhan about his uncle. |
"The SP's report card on law and order is not good because they give a free hand to their people," he adds, draped in a white shawl, sitting outside the family home. |
"There has never been a problem between Hindu and Muslims in Kairana," says the nephew of the BJP MP who made the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana an emotive national issue. |
"Hum ek hi hookah peene wale log hai (we are a people that smoke from the same hookah)." |
IMAGE: The Kalsyan chaupal belongs to both Muslim and Hindu Gurjars, who are almost numerically equal. |
In the Kalsyan chaupal, which includes both Hindu and Muslims Gurjars, a group of farmers sit on khatiyas (charpoys), and share a hookah. |
"The Samajwadi Party's goondagardi (hooliganism) is the biggest problem here. Both Hindus and Muslim are suffering," says Aashiq, as the farmers sit in a circle in the courtyard outside the panchayat building. |
More and more farmers join in to bitterly complain about the SP government and the harassment of SP "goondas." They grumble about not getting money for sugarcane sold to the factories last year. |
"Akhilesh is tom-tomming about laptops -- are we going to tie ghungroos on them and make them dance?" asks Munif Khan, another farmer. |
The men offer laddoos; the oldest Bhanwar Singh, 80, gets up to offer it personally and does not take no for an answer. |
He has exercised his ballot in every election and says, "gareeb ho ya ameer, Hindu ho ya Musalman, this election is a choice between "bhalai and burai (good and evil)." |
There are around 35,000 to 40,000 Hindu Gurjars in Kairana; the Muslims Gurjars are almost the same in number. |
To demonstrate the cordial relations they share, by way of example, Munif Khan says among the five of them sitting there, three are Muslims. "Aur hum barabar se baithe hai (we are equals)," he says. |
Sitting in the centre, Bhanwar Singh is the wise elder. The other defer to him. He takes a puff of the hookah, which has a long pipe with a rotating base that is easily passed from one to the other. |
"Suraksha ke liye vote de rahe hai (I am voting for my safety)," he says, "Suraksha hai to vikas hai, surkasha nahi toh vika bhi nahi (there can be no development without the rule of law)," he points out. |
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