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May 27, 2011 / Columnists

Weiner Writes From Capitol Hill

What The President Got Wrong

Commentary By Congressman Anthony Weiner

When the President spoke last week of the opportunities presented by the Arab Spring, he got a lot right. His calling out of the Arab states was long overdue and dead on. But he got some big things wrong. More...

Notes from the High C’s

Rockaway Music and Arts Council

by Sharon Gabriel

We are happy to report that the 2011 Concert Series is set to begin. Save the dates of Saturday evenings June 11 and June 25 and join The Rockaway Music and Arts Council for the first two concerts of the newly-named Barbara Eisenstadt Concert Series. More...

From The Artists Studio

Belleville De Paris

Commentary by Susan Hartenstein

From our friends at NPS/ Gateway National Recreation Area: Calling Young Artists: If you made a drawing, painting, story or poem about your visit to Gateway, you could be a featured artist at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge! More...

The Progressive

Janus

Commentary By John Paul Culotta

In ancient Rome the two faced god called Janus was the symbol of new horizons and transition. He had two heads, one facing east and the other west. Our first month of the western calendar, January, is named after this god. More...

Historical Views of the Rockaways

A blast from the Far Rockaway past … New Car Sales

From The Rockaway Museum Commentary by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke

Old-timers will remember when there were several new car dealerships in Far Rockaway. More...

Beachcomber

The Wave has instituted a new online option on rockawave.com for those who do not have an annual online subscription that allows them access to the paper‘s digital edition. More...

Broad Channel Bits

By Dan Guarino

In case you missed the notice, the world did not end last week. However as I took the A train into Manhattan early last Saturday morning, after debating whether to buy the round trip Metrocard, I did notice some noteworthy things. More...

The Rockaway Beat

Graduation Rates Up, But Can Anybody Here Do The Work?

Commentary By Howard Schwach

In this space last week, I wrote of the fact that the state and city departments of education have been cooking the books, making the high-stakes standardized math and reading tests easier to pass by reducing the cut score each year until 2009, when More...

On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced an 8.9 earthquake that shook its northern regions and the waters, causing the strongest tsunami the nation has ever seen. More...