Super Punch

Matt Stromberg for Hyperallergic:
Artists contacted by Hyperallergic said they were easily able to evade the few guards patrolling, not surprising given that a security firm hired to protect the site sued the developer recently for not paying them.
Some artists at work:...

ABC:
Officials announced that superintendents accepting and extorting bribes for contractors had become business as usual, occurring in almost 100 NYCHA buildings across all five boroughs -- nearly 1/3 of all NYCHA buildings.
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Here's the Amazon listing, but the Harper Collins page has a much longer summary:
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her...

To the interviewer's surprise, the mayor says quite explicitly that the A's should just stay in Oakland, and basically challenges Oakland to get a deal done. (She also starts and ends the conversation about the team by saying that, if the A's move to...