Verdi’s sweeping and implausible Romantic drama “Ernani” has returned to the Metropolitan Opera and features the American soprano Angela Meade, who has received this year’s Beverly Sills Artist Award.
“Gran Fury: Read My Lips,” an exhibition at New York University’s 80WSE gallery, recalls when members of a collective of AIDS activists channeled their outrage through art.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s superintendent of the new office has taken on high-profile issues, and some see it as infringing on Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s territory.
Following similar steps across the country, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, plans to introduce a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage, and for it to be adjusted each year for inflation.
A proposal from the New York State Bar Association would remove some convictions from an offender’s public record, but whether Albany would take it up was uncertain.
Waters Crest, a tiny winery in Cutchogue, is run by a self-taught winemaker who owns no vineyards, but it has food-friendly whites with a great texture.
The median price of first grade has gone up by 48 percent over 10 years, and parents at three schools are waiting to find out whether they will be joining the $40,000-a-year club.
