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The iPhone delivers a casual, frequently whimsical gaming experience, but those searching for a narrative-driven experience will generally have to look elsewhere.
The New York Philharmonic gave the belated premiere of the cantata “The World in Flower” on Thursday night in a radiant performance conducted by Alan Gilbert.
The automotive industry’s current woes are so severe, members of the local ruling class say that they feel threatened to an extent they haven’t before.
Softball games in Central Park pitting staffers and hangers-on from local media organizations are an enduring city rite. But as publications falter and die, revelry is increasingly shadowed by gloom.
As Woodstock turns 40, its organizers, who are trying to plan a one-day mini-Woodstock in Brooklyn this August, can't agree on a tribute.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 2009, covering May 9, 2009.
Rick Ross
Soundtrack
Depeche Mode
Rascal Flatts
Asher Roth
2009Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)[†]
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to two consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1989 and 1990—during the team's "Bad Boys" era—and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]