Daily Archives: 05/24/2011

(Community Matters) okay, I’m thinking maybe it’s time . . . or soon to be time

Charles Santos and I saw one in Chelsea last night, while late night dining outside. Steven and I attended a performance of Punchdrunk’s See No More – my second time; his first. He loved it and is eager to bring Hilary & Brent during our visit for the President’s LGBT dinner next month.

(Community Matters) What’s up with San Antonio?

Playbook: TOP STORY – N.Y. Times A1, at fold, “Big Crime Drop Over Recession Baffles Expert,” by Richard A. Oppel Jr.: “The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years … The odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s, when violent crime peaked in the United States. Small towns, especially, are seeing far fewer murders … New York was the only city with more than a million people besides San Antonio with an increase in the total number of violent crimes … and the only one besides Philadelphia to see a rise in murders. … There were 2,245 murders in New York in 1990, but the total has been less than 600 for the past nine years.” http://nyti.ms/lTOBHe