Food Adventure Eating

2010-03-17T11:01:55Z

In this photo taken March 2, 2010, a live octopus is shown before it is eaten alive at a seafood restaurant in the Queens borough of New York where a group of adventure eaters meet to dine on exotic and bizarre foods. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dan Kim) NO SALES

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Nation, world go green for St. Patrick's Day

2010-03-17T13:30:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Kilts, green body paint decorate NYC as marchers worldwide parade in honor of St. Patrick</div><div><p>All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day w...

Government sets school bonds, Congress approves rebates

2010-03-17T11:30:19Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State and school districts can now tap their 2010 allocations of stimulus school construction bonds, which total $11 billion, the Treasury and Education Departments said on Wednesday, as the U.S. Congress moved to create more demand for the debt.</p><...

New York Celebrates St. Patrick's Day With Annual Parade

2010-03-17T10:32:32Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 17: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg marches in the 249th annual St. Patrick's Day parade March 17, 2010 in New York City. The parade honors the patron saint of Ireland and marched for the first time on March 17, 1762, fourteen years before the Declaration of...

New York "vandals" mock consumer culture

2010-03-17T05:15:48Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - In New York City's subway system, self-described vandals who share the name Poster Boy have a political agenda: make passengers question the barrage of advertising they face each day.</p><p>Skilled with razors, they cut up poster ads for movies, television shows, or consumer products in mere minutes, rearranging let...

32nd Annual New York City Police Foundation Gala

2010-03-16T23:32:20Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 16: Actor Michael Douglas attends the 32nd Annual New York City Police Foundation Gala at The Waldorf=Astoria on March 16, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/

2010-03-16T19:35:01Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 16: Olympic snowboarder Lindsey Vonn attends the premiere of "The Bounty Hunter" at Ziegfeld Theatre on March 16, 2010 in New York, New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm

2010-03-16T18:00:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm; some residents hope to return soon</div><div><p>The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities.</p><p>Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still inundated with water, with tens of thousands of people lacking electricity and hundreds still in emergen...

rock and roll hall of fame

2010-03-16T18:31:39Z

Faith Hill 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony - Press Room at the Waldorf Astoria hotel New York City, USA - 15.03.10

NYC abuzz: Sweet deal makes bees legal

2010-03-16T13:45:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Sweet news for the colonies: NYC legalizes honeybees in a boon for keepers of rooftop hives</div><div><p>Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret.</p><p>The city's health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beekeeping within city limits.</p><p>Previously, the city's health code had placed honeybees in the sam...

NYC restaurants must now show their report cards

2010-03-16T11:00:11Z

<div><p>New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday.</p><p>The best will get an A, according to the system approved by the city Board of Health.</p><p>Officials say the grading system is designed to give p...

NY restaurants to get review -- for hygiene

2010-03-16T10:18:03Z

<div><p>New York restaurants proudly display reviews in the window about the taste of their cuisine. Now they'll have to have one saying whether the food's also clean.</p><p>The city's health board on Tuesday approved the regulation requiring all the approximately 24,000 eateries to display letter grades in the entranceway -- anything less than A meaning not fully hygienic.</p><p>"New York City restaura...

NYC restaurants must show health inspection grades

2010-03-16T09:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC restaurants must display cleanliness 'grades' from health dept, visible at doorway</div><div><p>The New York City Board of Health has voted to require restaurants to tell the public what inspectors think of their cleanliness by displaying large letter grades near their entrances.</p><p...

Gay Entertainment Report: Gay Socialites Invade Logo

2010-03-16T08:00:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Gay cabler Logo is preparing for an invasion of gay power couples</div><div><p> <p>Gay cabler Logo is preparing for an invasion of gay power couples.</p> <p>The MTV-owned network has set a production date for its upcoming all-gay spinoff of Bravo's 'Reuters) - New York City will renovate 21 public housing projects, home to thousands of people, through two deals that allow it to for the first time tap federal funds for them, the city and state said on Monday.</p><p>Many of the projects have become dilapidated because the Reuters) - New York state will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and the state's horse breeding industry will be destroyed if the funding provided by New York City's bankrupt Off-Track Betting Corp<...

Post-snow, Northeast mops up from wind-driven rain

2010-03-14T17:00:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Northeast copes with flooding, power outages as rain takes up where blizzards left off; 6 dead</div><div><p>Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it's waterlogged by torrential rains.</p><p>The region mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded creeks and rivers. Six people died in storm-rela...

NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus

2010-03-13T03:00:26Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC officials: Taxi drivers scammed riders by $8.3M-plus by setting meters to suburban rate</div><div><p>Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the NYC funeral home van ticketed, then towed with dearly departed inside</div><div><p>A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne

New York City bank among three U.S. bank failures

2010-03-12T16:30:27Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Park Avenue Bank, a New York City-based institution, was among three banks seized by regulators on Friday, and is the second area bank to fail in two days.</p><p>The other banks seized on Friday were small institutions in

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