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Extra, Extra: Double Rainbow Over Manhattan
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John Del Signore
Published Jun 17, 2011
Modified Jun 17, 2011
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- Continuing his apology tour, Tracy Morgan sits down with gay teens.
- Big changes, with big food additions, are planned for the World Financial Center.
- President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are scheduled to play a round of golf tomorrow. Will the leaders come together to solve the problems wracking our country? And more importantly, who gets to drive the cart?
- Shooting dogs with paintball guns is never cool.
- New York Kids may not be ready for college, and are going to summer school in droves... but at least they are showing up for school?
- Lehman High School in the Bronx is preparing to sue the city for building them a too-small football field.
- Have you ever heard of someone getting kicked off of their college softball team for posting lyrics to rap songs on their Facebook page? This girl did.
- The Bleecker Street Opera, the successor to the late Amato Opera, is closing after two years.
- Is this pretty double rainbow over Manhattan a sign that the Senate will put same-sex marriage to a vote?
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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