Brigid Bergin appears in the following:
A Samba New Year's Eve
Thursday, January 01, 2009
New York, NY —
The sounds of the Bahian Allstars who played out 2008 with a Samba beat at S.O.B.'s. The club in SoHo hosted a new year's party called "Havana Meets Rio!" Club artistic director Mario Pereira explains the idea behind the evening.
PEREIRA: The feeling, the love, the ...
NYC Professor Translates during Mumbai Attacks
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
New York, NY —
When a Brooklyn Rabbi and his wife were taken hostage during the Mumbai terrorist attacks 2 weeks ago, Rabbis with Chabad here in the United States went urgently looking for someone who could speak Urdu, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The man they found is Pace ...Divers Plumb the Depths of City's Water System
Monday, November 24, 2008
New York, NY —
If you didn't see yesterday's New York Times, then you missed what is now the most e-mailed article from their New York section. The story starts with a leak in the city's complex water system that's turned into a 36 million gallon-a-day gusher.
To fix this ...
Artists Apply Creativity to Finances
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
New York, NY —
This week, the New York Foundation for the Arts awarded $100,000 to eight small dance companies through its BUILD program. Its goal is to help strengthen dance organizations by investing in their management and infrastructure. But it's not the only group pushing artists to rethink ...
Calling Parents: Pre-K Spots Still Available
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
New York, NY —
More than 5,000 seats are still available in the city's pre-kindergarten classes and City Council members are trying to spread the word.
Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other Councilmembers are distributing flyers across the city to encourage parents to sign up their four-year-olds by Friday.
Although October ...
New Yorkers React to V.P. Debate
Friday, October 03, 2008
New York, NY —
People gathered in groups large and small to watch the Palin-Biden showdown last night.
Twenty-six-year-old Paul Banister thought Sarah Palin held her own.
PALIN: I actually think she didn't have a lot of specifics but she didn't fail. I had a lot of people texting me, saying, ...
Artists Talk Funding Alternatives
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
New York, NY —
While lawmakers try to find a solution for Wall Street's financial crisis,local artists are bracing for a dip in the corporate dollars that support some of their work.
REPORTER: The non-profit arts advocacy group The Field hosted close to 100 local artists at Joe's Pub for ...
It's Wait-and-See for GOP
Monday, September 01, 2008
New York, NY —
Republican delegates gathered for their national convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, are in a wait-and-see mode, as party officials monitor the hurricane pounding the Gulf Coast. New Jersey's delegation has turned its hospitality hotel suite into a donation center for hurricane victims. Meanwhile, other delegates ...
City Earthquake Risk Greater Than You Think, Scientists Say
Friday, August 22, 2008
New York, NY —
A new study suggests the risk of earthquakes to New York City is substantially greater than previously thought.
A group of Columbia University seismologists says new analysis using modern instruments reveals potentially powerful seismic structures beneath the New York region, like a formerly unidentified intersection of ...
Con Ed Strike Averted
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
New York, NY —
After negotiating through the night and into the early morning, Con Edison has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing 9,000 of its workers, averting a possible strike.
A weary-sounding Joe Flaherty, who's a spokesman for the union Local 1-2 says both sides documented ...
Age Plays Important Role
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Albee Honored at Rainbow Room
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
New York, NY —
REPORTER: Tyne Daly and Eartha Kitt - just some of the stars who gathered to toast Edward Albee at the Rainbow Room last night.
The evening was a birthday celebration for the playwright and soon-to-be octogenarian who's written modern classics including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ...
Staten Island Composers Project
Saturday, October 27, 2007
New York, NY —
The Staten Island Composers Project is culminating this weekend with a live performance of works by David Johansen of The New York Dolls, Galt MacDermot, the composer of Hair and Vernon Reid, founder of the ’80s funk band Living Colour. All three are Staten Island ...
The Taxi Strike and the Punjabi Deli
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
New York, NY —
The taxi strike is being greeted by many New Yorkers with a shoulder shrug and a "whaddaya gonna do?" attitude. But some are feeling the effects strongly. Drivers who are not on the road say it's worth losing some money to keep GPS technology out ...
The Borinqueneers
Friday, August 24, 2007
New York, NY —
The 65th Infantry was the only all Puerto Rican regiment in the history of the U-S military. The soldiers were known as The Borinqueneers. Tonight in the Bronx, the New York debut of a new film about the fabled regiment will take place at Hostos ...