A factory closing is a sad affair: breadwinners are left reeling, communities go shrinking, and the sight of an empty architectural behemoth hovering over the landscape reminds us daily of the less lovely side of capitalism.
The New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York, recently launched a new astro-attraction: Rocket Park Mini Golf, a valiant educational effort that attempts to teach kids about physics through the joy of amateur putting (And we don’t mean discovering how time seems to stretch out into infinity when stuck behind slowpokes trying to […]
Writer/Director Greg Mottola based the script for his movie Adventureland on his experiences back in the 1980s working a summer job at the Adventureland Amusement Park in Farmingdale, Long Island.
We reported last July that the mounted head of Old Baldy, hero horse of the Union Army, was about to go into storage. A swank new home was being built for him in Philadelphia, where the new Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum would open by 2010, or at the latest by 2011, the 150th […]
