| The State of Surrogacy in New York |
Paying a woman to carry your baby is still illegal in New York state, but will the laws soon change?
In 2006, when Brooklyn local Melissa Musman was told by her doctor she could not have children following radiation treatments for desmoid tumors, she and her husband, Mike, decided to seek a gestational surrogate, or a woman who would carry their baby to term. With the help of an egg donor, they froze six embryos and began the search. MORE
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Hundreds Rally at City Hall in Support of Police Reform
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"My body, my life, as a young brown gay person is policed by the NYPD," Mitchell Mora, 23, told hundreds of New Yorkers at the rally for Communities United for Police Reform, held in City Hall Park on Thursday, Sept. 27.
Last March, Mora was walking alone on the Lower East Side when a police car pulled up with flashing lights and three officers jumped out, yelling, "Stop! Get against the wall! Open your bag!" Mora is a Latino, gay male. Police had stopped him before, but tonight was different as he was dressed in tights and high heels. He told the officers he did not consent to a search, as one took his bag and another frisked him while he stood against the wall. They found nothing. The officer patting him down then grabbed his buttocks and called him a homophobic expletive, before the men got back in their car and drove off. Mora had no way of identifying the police who had just searched him, engaged in sexual misconduct and used hate speech. MORE
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Heart of Darkness on 44th Street
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Guy's American Kitchen and Bar is too flashy and doesn't have much heart.
The arrival at 220 W. 44th St. of Guy's American Kitchen and Bar, aka The Guy Fieri Restaurant, was for some the final nail in the coffin of the old Times Square, that halcyon place of peep shows and slashers, flashers and freaks. For others it represented something even larger, the decline of the state of cuisine in North America. If a man who has made his name not as a chef but as a cross-country tourist of the novelty hamburger is able to open a 500-seat mess hall in the flashiest neighborhood in the city, they cry, we've brought the indigestion upon ourselves, like one of the lesser biblical plagues. MORE
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The Miseducation of Viola Davis
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'WON'T BACK DOWN' CONTRIBUTES TO THE EDUCATION CRISIS
A dyslexic child looks into the camera at the end of Won't Back Down and correctly pronounces a word she had previously stumbled over: "Hope." Thank God for the smart-aleck in the audience who loudly responded: "Boo!" MORE
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