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Breaking

The 2024 Paris Olympics: A Guide to the Art and Sport of Breaking

The U.S. will be represented by four athletes: Sunny Choi (“B-Girl Sunny”), Logan Edra (“B-Girl Logistx”), Jeffrey Louis (“Jeffro”) and Victor Montalvo (“Victor”).
By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
TUNIS, TUNISIA -Security measures are taken outside the National Bardo Museum, near the country's parliament in Tunis, when gunmen take tourists hostage on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. (Photo by Amine Landoulsi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

UPDATE: Gunmen Attack the Bardo National Museum in Tunis

Local news reports are reporting that gunmen in military uniforms opened fire this afternoon outside the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, before entering the building and taking tourists hostage. The story is developing, and details regarding the number of tourists injured on the scene have yet to be verified, but state press agencies are reporting that there have been casualties and that forces are currently surrounding the two militants, who are still inside the museum.
By Nate Freeman and Alanna Martinez
Robert Blumenthal. (Photo courtesy Patrick McMullan)

It’s On: Dealer Robert Blumenthal to Countersue Artist Dean Levin, Attorney Says

It's been two weeks since the Dean Levin filed a $200,000 lawsuit again Robert Blumenthal, the collector-turned-dealer who runs Robert Blumenthal Gallery on the Upper East Side. Mr. Levin, a process-based abstract artist once profiled in these pages, claimed that he had not been paid for the works from his solo show last May—there were 30, and the show sold out. Though it's not altogether so uncommon for a gallery—especially a smaller and newish one like Robert Blumenthal Gallery—to be slow to pay its artists, Mr. Levin had had enough, and to the litigation he went.
By Nate Freeman
John Liu. (Photo: Getty)

John Liu’s Former Aide and Donor Found Guilty in Federal Court

By Colin Campbell and Jill Colvin
A man is loaded into an ambulance in Boston. (Getty Images)

Devastating Explosions Near Boston Marathon Finish Line Leave Two Dead, Dozens Injured

By Colin Campbell and Jordyn Taylor

MESSAGE ON THE WALL: Facebook Denies Reports of Private Message Popping Up On Your Timeline [UPDATED]

By Steve Huff
(Photo: Getty)

Governor Cuomo Endorses a Democratic Senator for Reelection

By Colin Campbell
George Pataki (Photo: Getty)

George Pataki Doesn’t Expect He’ll Float His Name for President Again

By Colin Campbell
Vito Lopez.

That Was Fast: Vito Lopez Announces His Exit

By Colin Campbell
(photo: mmviverito.com)

Melissa Mark-Viverito Wants to Talk About Dog Poop

By Colin Campbell
(Photo: Flickr/ nycmayorsoffice)

Mayor Bloomberg: I Kissed a Seal and I Liked It

By Colin Campbell

Van Crashes Off Bronx River Parkway: 7 Dead

By Steve Huff
(Photo: Getty)

Various Officials and Unions Don’t Like Bloomberg’s Prevailing Wage Veto

By Colin Campbell
Via Alex Silverman's Twitter.

Charges Announced In NYC Would-Be Terror Bombing Plot Against Jose Pimentel, 27

By Foster Kamer
Protesters re-occupy Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15.

Protesters Re-Occupy Zuccotti Park

By Adrianne Jeffries and Hunter Walker
Protesters in front of the police barricade at Broadway and Pine approximately 40 minutes prior to their removal. (Photo: Hunter Walker)

Behind the Barricades at the NYPD’s Occupy Wall Street Raid

By Hunter Walker

Breaking: Groupon (GRPN) IPO Goes For $20, Naysayers Currently Snacking on Crow Cookies

By Foster Kamer
Via Getty.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Is a Free Man

By Foster Kamer

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Prosecutors Ask for Dismissal of Criminal Charges

By Foster Kamer

Reports: Possible Hostage Situation in Flatiron (Updated)

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Strauss-Kahn Free Bail WTF

Report: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Prosecutors Felled by 400 Pounds of Weed

By Foster Kamer

Sohaib Athar: The Guy Who Live-Tweeted Osama Bin Laden’s Death

By Foster Kamer

VIDEO: Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan, Obama Announces

By Foster Kamer

VIDEO: Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan, Obama Announces

By The Editors
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